11Ibid., I, 15.

12 Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage from Property to Democracy (Princeton, 1960), 18.

13 Turnout in the backcountry Virginia counties was as follows, as a percentage of adult white male tithables:

Year

County

Turnout

1755

Frederick Co., Va.

18.9%

1786-89

Albemarle Co., Va.

23.2%

 

Culpeper Co., Va.

16.7%

 

Orange Co., Va.

20.7%

Source: Charles S. Sydnor, Gentlemen Freeholders (Chapel Hill, 1952), 142, corrected for population growth; and Lucille Griffith, The Virginia House of Burgesses, 1750-1774 (University, Ala., 1968), 168.