1 English naval officers in the late seventeenth century were also somewhat relaxed about counting women, and certainly about identifying them, in their census reports to the Commissioners of Trade: a mistress of a fishing plantation, if she was enumerated at all, appeared only as the numeral "1" next to her husband's name in a column headed "Wife" servants were tabulated together in another column, undifferentiated by sex. Like other seventeenth-century observers in Newfoundland, Father Baudoin demonstrated a knack for "not counting women and children" and a propensity to lump them together with the livestock. There are 17 houses, and about 116 men, not counting women and children. ![]() 1 There were there 110 men, at least half of them armed, not counting women and children… This place is very fine.
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