Bernhard Historiography

Question 1

Article title

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Men, Women and Children in Jamestown: Population and Gender in Early Virginia, 1607-1610

Question 2

Difficult to determine the number of settlers

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Many different sources stating different numbers of people

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No dispute among historians about the

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Number of colonists remaining in Virginia at the end of the 2nd supply mission
200 colonists

Question 4

Bernhard in her work on the population subtracted 16 men from the Virginia ship

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Fails to add them back on, meaning her calculation is off

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Bernhard rejected the earliest

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Narratives and first hand accounts of the population
Unlike other historians

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Bernhard suggested if women and children had been part of the colony before 1610

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The Jamestown colony would not have been abandoned before the arrival of De la Warr