11Ibid., I, 15.
12 Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage from Property to Democracy (Princeton, 1960), 18.
13 Turnout in the backcountry Virginia counties was as follows, as a percentage of adult white male tithables:
Year |
County |
Turnout |
1755 |
Frederick Co., Va. |
18.9% |
1786-89 |
Albemarle Co., Va. |
23.2% |
|
Culpeper Co., Va. |
16.7% |
|
Orange Co., Va. |
20.7% |
Source: Charles S. Sydnor, Gentlemen Freeholders (Chapel Hill, 1952), 142, corrected for population growth; and Lucille Griffith, The Virginia House of Burgesses, 1750-1774 (University, Ala., 1968), 168.