1 Outstanding in a very large literature on the family in the 17th-century Chesapeake are the works of Lorena Walsh, especially “‘Till Death Us Do Part’: Marriage and Family in Seventeenth-Century Maryland,” in Tate and Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century, 126-52. Also of high quality are many publications by Lois Green Carr, including “The Development of the Maryland Orphans Court,” in Aubrey Land et al., Law, Society and Politics in Early Maryland, (Baltimore, 1977), 41-62; other major works include Rutman and Rutman, A Place in Time, 94-127; Gloria Main, Tobacco Colony, Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (Princeton, 1982), 9-47, 167-239; Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves (Chapel Hill, 1986), 165-204; and on the 18th century there are Daniel Blake Smith, Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society (Ithaca, 1980), and Jan Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Value in Jefferson’s Virginia (Cambridge, 1984).

2 Laslett, “Sir Robert Filmer,” 544.

3 Bamford, ed., A Royalist’s Notebook, xxi.

4 Michael Zuckerman, “William Byrd’s Family,” Perspectives in American History XII (1979), 255-311.