[1] Acknowledgments are due to the Johns Hopkins Press for permitting the
use in this article of data included in the author's monograph entitled
"The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865."
[2] Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, Vol. II, p. 280 (1670). Italics
my own.
[3] Hening, Vol. V, p. 550.
[4] Original MS. Records of the County Court of Northampton. Orders, Deeds
and Wills, 1651-1654, p. 20.
[5] Original MS. Records of the County Court of Northampton. Orders, Deeds
and Wills, 1651-1654, p. 10.
[6] Original MS. Records of Northampton Co., 1651-1654, p. 200.
[7] MS. Land Patents of Virginia, 1643-1651, 326.
[8] MS. Court Records of Northampton Co., 1651-1654, p. 161.
[9] J. C. Hotten, "Lists of Emigrants to America," pp. 218-258.
[10] MS. Deeds of Henrico County, No. 5, p. 585.
[11] MS Legislative Petitions, Dinwiddie County, 1833, A 5123, Virginia
State Library.
[12] Orders of the Hustings Court of Richmond, Vol. 5, p. 41.
[13] MS. Deeds of Henrico County, No. 4, p. 692.
[14] MS. Deeds of Henrico County, No. 6, p. 274.
[15] MS. Deeds of Henrico County, No. 6, p. 78.
[16] MS. Legislative Petitions, Prince William Co., 1812, Virginia State
Library.
[17] _Lower Norfolk County Antiquary_, Vol. IV, p. 177.
[18] Acts of Assembly, 1831-1832, p. 20.
[19] Senate Journal, 1832, p. 176.
[20] Acts of Assembly, 1857-1858.
[21] Grattan's Reports, Vol. 14, p. 260.