[1] WILLIAM WALLER HENING, _The Statutes at Large Being a
Collection of All the Laws of Virginia_ (New York, 1823),
vol. 2, pp. 172-176.
[2] Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 471-478.
[3] William Fitzhugh was founder of the renowned Virginia
family that bear his name. As chief justice of the Stafford
County court, burgess, merchant, and wealthy planter, he
epitomized the landed aristocrat in 17th-century Virginia.
See "Letters of William Fitzhugh," _Virginia Magazine of
History & Biography_ (Richmond, 1894), vol. 1, p. 17
(hereinafter designated _VHM_), and _William Fitzhugh and His
Chesapeake World_ (1676-1701), edit. Richard Beale Davis
(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, for the
Virginia Historical Society, 1963).
[4] _VHM_, op. cit., p. 30.
[5] ROBERT BEVERLEY, _The History and Present State of
Virginia_, edit. Louis B. Wright (Chapel Hill: The University
of North Carolina Press, 1947), p. 88; PHILIP ALEXANDER
BRUCE, _Economic History of Virginia_, 2nd ed. (New York: P.
Smith, 1935), vol. 2, pp. 553-554.
[6] _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia_
(hereinafter designated _JHB_) 1659/60-1693, edit. H. R.
McIlwaine (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1914),
pp. 303, 305, 308, 315.
[7] "Letters of William Fitzhugh," _VHM_ (Richmond, 1895),
vol. 2, pp. 374-375.
[8] _JHB 1659/60-1693_, op. cit. (footnote 6), p. 351.
[9] HENING, op. cit. (footnote 1), vol. 3, pp. 53-69.