Wealth of a Nation to be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution

American Colonial Wealth appendix artisans Average Value business inventory capita century chapter Charleston District Colonies England colonists column Components consumers crops decile Delaware dollars durable economic equipment esquires farmers financial assets financial liabilities free and nonfree free wealthholders Gallman Gini coefficient growth held high-wealth household human capital indentured indentured servants Jersey laborers Land real estate livestock Lorenz curve lower Maryland Massachusetts merchants Middle Colonies middle-wealth net worth nonhuman physical wealth nonhuman wealth nonprobate North note to table numbers occupation not determined Pennsylvania percent percentage Philadelphia Philadelphia Co planters population portable physical wealth potential wealthholders Pounds Sterling probate inventories probate-type wealthholders production ratio regions relatively richest sample counties Sample data sample decedents slaves and servants Socioeconomic Group Soltow SOURCE South Carolina southern thirteen colonies tion total physical wealth urban value of slaves Variant w-weighted wealth inequality weights widows Williamson and Lindert women worth York hybrid