1 Ames, ed., County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, 307, 311, 320, 350, 382, 287, 407 (1643).
2 The most comprehensive quantitative study is still that of Philip Bruce, who obtained the following results from wills and depositions:
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Proportion Signing by Mark | ||
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Total Population |
Women Only | |
County |
Period |
Deeds |
Depositions |
All Documents |
Lower Norfolk |
1646-98 |
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Isle of Wight |
1643-1700 |
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Surry |
1652-84 |
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Henrico |
1677-97 |
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Elizabeth City |
1693-99 |
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York |
1657-1700 |
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Middlesex |
1673-1700 |
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Essex |
1692-99 |
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Lancaster |
1652-97 |
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Rappahannock |
1654-99 |
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Northumberland |
1652-77 |
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Westmoreland |
1653-77 |
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Northampton |
1647-98 |
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Accomac |
1641-97 |
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All Counties |
1641-1700 |
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The sample was 13,135 for deeds; 2,376 for depositions; and 3,066 women; computed from data in Bruce, Institutional History of Virginia, I, 458.