1 Of families known to have settled in the Isle of Wight County during the 17th century, 50% came from the five counties of Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire. Another 40% were from London and its environs. The rest of England contributed 10%. The data appear in John Bennett Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia (Baltimore, 1959), 204.
2 Eric Gethryn Jones, George Thorpe and the Berkeley Company, a Gloucester Enterprise in Virginia (Gloucester, 1982).
3“A Declaration of the State of Virginia,” in Peter Force, ed., Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Colonies in North America (4 vols., 1843-46, rpt. New York, 1947), III, 5.