21 Byrd to Lord Orrery, 5 July 1726, ibid., I, 354-55.
22 Byrd to Anne Taylor Otway, 30 June 1736, ibid., I, 482.
23 Laslett, “Sir Robert Filmer,” 545.
24 Further, this law specified that “it shall be understood where they make a joynt cropp, that he which hath the command shall be adjudged the master of the family.” Hening, Statutes at Large, I, 286 (1644).