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acquired aristocratic best lands bill of rights Blue Ridge Bluegrass Bluegrass region Brunswick County colonial committees conservative constitution convention Council courts democ democratic early economic eighteenth election England ernor established fact factors farmers Felix Grundy freemen fron frontier conditions frontier democracy frontier development frontier thesis George Nicholas ginia governor granted headrights House of Burgesses hundred acres indentured servants Indian interests James Jamestown justices Kentucky labor landowners large tracts leaders leadership legislation legislature liberal Lunenburg Lunenburg County manhood suffrage ment migration moun North Carolina Pennsylvania period piedmont pioneers planters political preëmpted quitrents radicals Randolph Rappahannock region riod Roanoke River route Scotch-Irish secured settled settlement settlers seventeenth century shillings the hundred slaves social southern speculators Spotswood stratification tains taxes Thomas tidewater tion tive tobacco trade Valley of Virginia Walter Lynwood Fleming wealthier West westward William Byrd William Byrd II yeomen