If she comes somewhere near you Barbara Vines-Little has several great
lectures on this topic.  Barbara is located in Virginia and speaks around
the state as well as nationally quite a bit.
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Metz, John (LVA) <
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> In Virginia the law of entail was abolished in 1776 and primogeniture
> was eliminated in 1785.  After 1785, the VA law provided for equal
> sharing of real property among all the heirs - both male and female. An
> excellent source for this is C. Ray Keim, Primogeniture and Entail in
> Colonial Virginia, William and Mary Quarterly, Volume XXV, No. 4
> (October 1968), Pages 550-551.  The article may be accessed via JSTOR on
> site at the Library of Virginia.
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