Apontamentos para história da família e demografia histórica da Capitania do Grão-Pará (1750-1790)

Abstract

In the History of Brazil Colony, the family had been presented as a basic institution, in view of the relevance of its functions, social, economics and politics, along of this period. It is observed that the historians that research about family in Brazil had been come back toward the Southeastern region, in special the São Paulo society, and few have directed its studies for other regions, clearly those regions where they had been developed societies had not directly entailed to the exporting sector of the Colony and the societies that not received great contingent from foreign. It is also known that the studies of the family, when associated to the historical demography in the Captainship of Grão-Pará, had not obtained more resulted detailed of what the identification of approach statisticians of the distribution’s men and women of different ethnic-social category. It is in this direction that this dissertation, by means of the census of 1778 of the Captainship of Grão-Pará and the trajectory’s analysis of the elite family Morais Bittencourt (1750-1790), intends to delineate the elites and social hierarchies in the society of Pará.