[18] See the able paper by Dr. L. G. Tyler on “The Seal of Virginia,” William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 81-96.
[19] For my data regarding land grants I am much indebted to the very learned and scholarly work of Mr. Philip Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, i. 487-571.
[20] Letters and Times of the Tylers, i. 41.
[21] He is mentioned by Pepys in his Diary, Oct. 12, 1660: “Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten and the rest of the officers to a venison party of his at the Dolphin, where dined withal Colonel Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, very noble company.”
[22] Waters, An Examination of the English Ancestry of George Washington, Boston, 1889.
[23] Sir William Jones’s Works, ed. Lord Teignmouth, London, 1807, x. 389.
[24] The change was somewhat gradual, e. g. in Massachusetts at first the eldest son received a double portion. See The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, reprinted from the edition of 1660, ed. W. H. Whitmore, Boston, 1889, pp. 51, 201.
[25] See Howard, Local Constitutional History of the United States, i. 122.
[26] A few of the oldest Virginia counties, organized as such in 1634, had arisen from the spreading and thinning of single settlements originally intended to be cities and named accordingly. Hence the curious names (at first sight unintelligible) of “James City County” and “Charles City County.”
[27] Edward Channing, “Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America,” Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, vol. ii.