Census of Jamaica

Abstract of the Whole: 23 September 1670

Parishes	Acres Patented	Familes	Persons
St. Thomas' Parish	14,825½	59	590
St. David's Parish	11,946¾	80	960
St. Andrew's Parish	29,199¾	194	1,552
St. Katherine's Parish	68,590	158	2,370
St. John's Parish	25,197¾	83	996
Clarendon Parish	39,260¾	143	1,430
Note 1			2,500
Note 2	20,000		1,500
	209,020½	717	11,898
More: We calculate of Persons in the Towns of Port Royal and St. Jago to be no less than, men, women and children			3,300
			15,198

Note 1: We likewise calculate the Privateers, Hunters, Sloop, and Boatmen which ply this Island, and are not reckoned in any of the above Parishes, to be at least 2,500 lusty able men.

Note 2: The four Parishes on the North Side, vizt., St. George's, St. Marie's, St. Anne's, and St. James, and the Leewardmost parish, St. Elizabeth, hath not been yet collected, as not worth it, by reason of its distance and new settlements, where we find about 20,000 acres patented, and calculate there cannot be less than 1,500 people

Sainsbury, W. Noel, ed., Calender of State Papers, Colonial Series (Volume 7), America and West Indies, 1669-1674, Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office (Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1964) First Published London: HMSO, 1889. pp. 98-104.