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 ewes; nineteen lambs, seven wethers, and one ram. William Barber, in 1668, bequeathed seven sheep to his heirs, while Colonel Thomas Ludlow had fifty-four in his possession at the time of his death. Mathew Hubbard, who died in 1670, owned twenty-four ewes, two lambs, three wethers, and six rams.

The planters of Lower Norfolk, whose estates in neat cattle and horses have already been referred to, owned the following number of sheep: William Moseley, seven; Thomas Willoughby, twenty-two; Henry Woodhouse, forty, and Adam Thoroughgood, forty-nine. Robert Smith, who possessed thirty-two head of horned cattle, owned seventeen sheep; and the flock of Robert Hodges, who owned forty-six horned cattle, was of the same size. Robert Beckingham of Lancaster, in 1677, was in possession of seventy-six; William Fauntleroy of Rappahannock, of forty, and Major Henry Smith of the same county, of forty-one. Henry Randolph of Henrico owned eighteen; George Watkins of Surry, forty-six; Southey Littleton of Accomac, ninety-six, and Peter Wilkins of Northampton, thirty-six. In several cases sheep formed an important part of the estates seized by the authorities after the suppression of the Insurrection of 1676. The