Culpeper Demographics

12,000 residents  (44th of Virginia's 148 counties)

   5,000  whites
       Planters (English)  84  
       Gentry (English)  700 own or rent slaves
       Germans
       "Plan folk" - Celts / "crackers" (Scot-Irish) - drinking & fighting 

   6,653  slaves  (24th highest in Virginia)
      429  free blacks

   Population of Culpeper Court House = 1,000 
        60 merchants & shopkeepers, 88 carpenters
        20 types of crafts:  Wheelwrights, blacksmiths, weavers, wagon makers, silversmiths
        46 teachers (no public schools)
        30 physicians, 12 lawyers, 8 ministers, 3 dentists
        27 mills  

   About 20 other small villages & settlements

   Average farm = 260 acres
        Crops/livestock:  Wheat, corn, tobacco, pigs, cattle, horses