[175] Will Book F., p. 222, Clerk's Office, Culpeper County, Virginia.
[176] Will Book No. 12, p. 267, Clerk's Office, Orange County, Virginia.
[177] Will Book No. 7, p. 267, Clerk's Office, Fairfax County, Virginia. Note: Robert E. Lee qualified as executor under this will and executed in 1862 the necessary papers emancipating the testator's slaves of whom there were one hundred and ninety-six.
[178] Deed Book No. 39, p. 344, Clerk's Office, Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
[179] See Will Book Q., p. 433, Clerk's Office, Prince William County, Virginia.
[180] Will Book No. 16, p. 106, Clerk's Office, Amherst County, Virginia.

XVIII

The Small Number of Slaveholders in Virginia

as Compared with Her Whole White Population