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Title: Patrician and Plebeian
Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion

Author: Thomas J. Wertenbaker

Release Date: April 2, 2009 [EBook #28472]

Language: English

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Patrician and Plebeian
in Virginia

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Patrician and Plebeian
in Virginia

OR THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SOCIAL CLASSES OF THE
OLD DOMINION

By
THOMAS J. WERTENBAKER

_New York_
RUSSELL & RUSSELL

COPYRIGHT 1910, 1958, 1959 BY
THOMAS J. WERTENBAKER

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 59-11227

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

Dedicated to H.R.W.

_PREFACE_

Forty-seven years have passed since this volume was first published;
in that time a mass of source material has been made available to the
historian and nume