14 Rutman and Rutman, A Place in Time, 130; Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom, 338-43.

15 Rutman and Rutman, A Place in Time, 201; cf. Virginia Bernhard, “Poverty and the Social Order in Seventeenth Century Virginia,” VMHB 85 (1977), 141-55.

16 C. Ray Keim, “Primogeniture and Entail in Colonial Virginia,” WMQ3 25 (1968), 545-86.

17 Jones, Present State of Virginia, 93.