Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation corrections:
Pg. 3 - added closing quotes (not even beggars;")
Pg. 142 - added quotes ("It should be inquired into," he said, "how it comes to pass ...)
Pg. 151 - added period (for themselves only. Making)
Pg. 152 - added opening quote ("illiberal, noisy and rude,")
Pg. 172 - Footnote [5-29], added closing quote (to the Government.")
Pg. 251 - added comma after "George" (Archer, George,)
Pg. 252 - changed "." to ";" (Carolina ... 99-100; 139-146.)
Pg. 254 - added comma after "Benjamin" (Harrison, Benjamin,)
Pg. 254 - added comma in Freedmen (what became of, 43;)
Pg. 257 - changed comma to semi-colon (Plantations ... listed in rent roll of 1704-5, 53;)
Spelling Corrections:
Pg. 87 - "exlusive" to "exclusive" (1) (secured exclusive privileges)
Pg. 88 - "nigher" to "higher" (profit higher at home?)
Pg. 124 - "butt wenty" to "but twenty" (there were but twenty)
Pg. 125 - "chieftians" to "chieftains" (the native chieftains)
Pg. 156 - "Birtish" to "British" (upon British imports)
Pg. 162 - added Chapter Title "Notes to Chapters" as shown in the Contents.
Pg. 176 - "Britain" to "British" (in Footnote [7-23] ... British Public Record Office)
Pg. 191 - "ped" to "per" (per Robert Rivers)
Pg. 208 - "Sgeriff" to "Sheriff" (Henry Royall Sheriff)
Pg. 215 - "Shreiff" to "Sheriff" (the Sheriff is to be allowed)
Pg. 215 - added "A" at head of alphabetical list of names.
Pg. 223 - "Sherif" to "Sheriff" (Tho Parker Sheriff)
Pg. 245 - added "D" at head of alphabetical listing of names.
Pg. 252 - "Spotsvylvania" to "Spotsylvania" (Chew, Larkin ... dealer in Spotsylvania)
Pg. 255 - "gratned" to "granted" (Land, ... large tracts granted,)
Pg. 257 - "Eir" to "Sir" (Sandys, Sir Edwin,)
Pg. 258 - "centry" to "century" (Sickness ... abates before end of 17th century,)
Pg. 259 - "Thorouhggood" to "Thoroughgood" (Thoroughgood, Adam, ... brother of Sir John Thoroughgood,)
Footnote and Anchor Corrections/Notations:
Footnotes and their anchors have been renumbered to include the chapter number, thus the Chapter 3 Footnote #5 becomes [3-5] in this e-text.
Footnotes without anchor points are not hyper-linked.
Pg. 19 - A second anchor to Footnote [1-18] has been corrected to anchor Footnote [1-19].
Pg. 87 - Chapter 5, Footnote anchors skip from [5-2] to [5-7], and again from [5-33] to [5-35]. No anchor points for Footnotes 3 through 6 or 34 appear in the original text though the footnotes are included in the "Notes to Chapters" beginning on pg. 162. Also;
Pg. 115 - Chapter 7, Footnotes skip from [7-2] to [7-4]. No reference point for Footnote 3.
Pg. 163 - Footnote [2-19], no page number was given. (p.--.)
Pg. 179 - Footnote [8-54], in reference to Philip Fithian, Journal and letters, p. 130 appears twice in original text and has been retained.
Appendix - Information contained in the Rent Rolls appears to have been set out verbatim for each VA county or Parish. Inconsistencies appearing in the original text, which have been retained include:
a. Inconsistent punctuation of abbreviations;
b. Inconsistent representation of abbreviations;
c. Missing end of line punctuation;
d. Inconsistent alphabetization of proper names;
e. Inconsistent spelling of proper names;
f. Inconsistent mathmatical calculations;
Other notes and corrections:
Printer or Author regularly used "country" in place of what are VA. counties.
Pg. 251 - Index listing for Ball, William, no page reference given. However this name is referenced on page 153.
Pg. 253 - "558" to "58" (Index listing for Essex, ... farms and tithables of, 58.)
Pg. 258 - Index listing for Smelting ... begun at Falling Creek. No page reference given. However reference to both Smelting and Falling Creek appear on page 18.
Word variations:
"Perfect Discription" and "Perfect Description"
"pre-eminence" and "preëminently"