[57] See F. P. Brent, “Some unpublished facts relating to Bacon’s Rebellion on the Eastern Shore of Virginia,” and Mrs. Tyler, “Thomas Hansford, the First Native Martyr to American Liberty,” in Virginia Historical Society’s Collections, vol. xi.
[58] Some interesting information about the Cheesmans may be found in William and Mary College Quarterly, vol. i.
[59] Neill’s Virginia Carolorum, p. 379.
[60] See above, p. 35.
[61] Hening’s Statutes, i. 290.
[62] Hening’s Statutes, ii. 45. In the same statute it was further enacted “that none shall be admitted to be of the vestry that doth not take the oath of allegiance and supremacy to his Majesty and subscribe to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England.” This effectually excluded Dissenters from taking a part in local government.
[63] See Channing, “Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America,” J. H. U. Studies, ii. 484; Howard, Local Constitutional History of the United States, i. 388-404.
[64] “We have not had liberty to choose vestrymen wee humbly desire that the wholle parish may have a free election.” “Surry County Grievances,” Virginia Magazine, ii. 172.
[65] See e. g. Hening’s Statutes, ii. 402, 411, 412, 419, 421, 443, 445, 478, 486.
[66] Hening’s Statutes, ii. 396.