'A short Account of Mr Hersseboom's Essay upon the Number of People in Holland and West Friezland ...' by John Eames

Reference number: RBO/21/63

Date: 1739

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'...and also in Harlem, Gouda and the Hague; drawn from the Bills of Birth Burials and Marriages in those places'
Figures of mortality from London and Amsterdam are also given
Table of annuities for life given ('Let the Annuity be 100 Guilders a year')
Read to the Royal Society on 28 June 1739

Reference number: RBO/21/63
Earliest possible date: 1739
Page extent: 7 pages
Format: Manuscript

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'A short Account of Mr Hersseboom's Essay upon the Number of People in Holland and West Friezland ...' by John Eames, 1739, RBO/21/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_63/a-short-account-of-mr-herssebooms-essay-upon-the-number-of-people-in-holland-and-west-friezland-by-john-eames, accessed on 10 March 2026

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Dates: 1661 - 1739

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