24 Fairfax Harrison, Virginia Land Grants, A Study of Conveyancing in Relation to Colonial Politics (Richmond, 1925).

25 Cul. Robert Quary to Board of Trade, 16 June 1703, quoted in Chickering, “Founders of an Oligarchy,” 262.

26 Jones, Present State of Virginia, 70.

27 Philip Fithian to Enoch Green, 1 Dec. 1773; in Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal and Letters 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion (Williamsburg, 1943), 34-35.

28“Narrative of George Fisher___” WMQ1 17 (1908-9) 123.