11 Allan Kulikoff has brought together the results of many research projects on tenancy in the Chesapeake colonies:

 

 

Percent of

Number of

 

 

Households

Households

Place

Year

Owning Land

Altogether

Prince George’s Co., Md.

1705

65%

459

 

1733

58%

1,204

 

1755

56%

1,337

 

1776

45%

1,669

Charles and Calvert Cos., Md.

1783

47%

2,805

Northern Neck, Va.

1787

42%

n.a.

Fairfax Co., Va.

1782

36%

831

Richmond Co., Va.

1782

70%

511

 

1790

56%

655

James City Co., Va.

1768

70%

268

Tidewater Virginia

1787

64%

n.a.

Source: Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves, 135, citing research by Lois Green Carr, Gregory Stiverson, Jackson Turner Main and Norman Risjord, in addition to his own inquiries.

12 Andrews, Colonial Folkways, 35.

13 Willard F. Bliss, “The Rise of Tenancy in Virginia,” VMHB 58 (1958), 427-41.