11 William Byrd II to William Beckford, 6 Dec. 1735, Tinling, ed., Correspondence of the Three William Byrds, II, 464.
12 In the elections of Burgesses during the year 1755, turnout in tidewater Virginia was as follows:
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Percent of White Adult Males Voting: | ||||
County |
1742 |
1752 |
1755 |
1758 |
1771 |
Accomac Co. |
49% |
43% |
48% |
50% |
|
Amelia Co. |
|
|
|
50% |
|
Brunswick Co. |
46% |
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth City Co. |
|
|
|
45% |
|
Essex Co. |
53% |
44% |
53% |
53% |
33% |
Fairfax Co. |
42% |
|
36% |
|
|
Henrico Co. |
|
58% |
|
|
|
King George Co. |
|
34% |
45% |
|
|
Lancaster Co. |
58% |
50% |
39% |
60% |
46% |
Northumberland Co. |
|
|
|
45% |
39% |
Prince Edward Co. |
|
|
27% |
45% |
|
Prince George Co. |
|
|
|
55% |
|
Richmond Co. |
|
45% |
37% |
40% |
37% |
Spotsylvania Co. |
46% |
35% |
42% |
|
49% |
Surry Co. |
|
|
|
|
44% |
Westmoreland Co. |
53% |
57% |
48% |
|
|
Sources include Robert J. Dinkin, Voting in Provincial America (Westport Conn., 1977), 148-49; Lucille Griffith, The Virginia House of Burgesses, 1750-1774 (revised ed., University, Ala., 1970), 168. These may be understood as upperbound estimates, which require correction for under-enumeration of tithables, a problem as yet unsolved.