12 Counties of origin for 127 families in Virginia’s high elite were as follows: Kent, 13; Gloucester, 9, Northampton, 8; Somerset, 8; London, 7; Yorkshire, 6; Surrey, 6; Devon, 5; Berkshire, 4; Hampshire, 4; Shropshire, 4; Bedfordshire, Dorsetshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, Warwickshire and Wiltshire, 3 each; Buckinghamshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, 2 each; Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire, Rutland, Westmorland, Channel Islands, West Indies, New England, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland and Wales, 1 each.

13 Quitt finds that “altogether, 19 of 59 immigrant leaders whose English locations can be traced are known to have lived in London.” Billings reports from another sample that 25 of 75 lived in London. See Quitt, “Origins of Virginia Gentry,” 635; Billings, “Political Institutions in Virginia,” 237n.

14 Hugh Jones, The Present State of Virginia (1724, rpt. Chapel Hill, 1956), 81, 102; see also Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia (1795, rpt. Chapel Hill, 1947), 287-88.

15 The record of this business is in Filmer mss, KAO.