Among the special studies relating to the political history of Virginia are Philip A. Bruce, _The Institutional History of Virginia_ (1910); Julian A. C. Chandler, _The History of Suffrage in Virginia_ (1901); Oliver P. Chitwood, _Justice in Colonial Virginia_ (1905); Percy S. Flippin, _Financial Administration of the Colony of Virginia_ (1915); Armistead C. Gordon, _The Laws of Bacon's Assembly_ (1914); Albert O. Porter, _County Government in Virginia_ (1947); Mary N. Stanard, _The Story of Bacon's Rebellion_ (1907); R. T. Barton, _Colonial Decisions_ (1909); Edward Ingle, _Virginia Local Institutions_ (1885); Elmer I. Miller, _The Legislature of the Province of Virginia_ (1907); Lyon G. Tyler, _The Cradle of the Republic_ (1906); Moncure D. Conway, _Omitted Chapters_ (1888); H. J. Eckenrode, _The Revolution in Virginia_ (1916); Hugh Blair Grigsby, _The Virginia Convention of 1776_ (1855); Charles R. Lingley, _The Transition in Virginia from Colony to Commonwealth_ (1910); Charles S. Sydnor, _Gentlemen Freeholders, Political Practices in Washington's Virginia_ (1952); Curtis P. Nettels, _George Washington and American Independence_ (1951). Biographies of prominent Virginians seem to come in pairs. There are two biographies of William Claiborne, Norton C. Hale, _Virginia Venturer_ (1951), and John H. Claiborne, _William Claiborne of Virginia_ (1917); two biographies devoted to the Lee family, Burton J. Hendrick, _The Lees of Virginia_ (1935), and Cazenove G. Lee, Jr., _Lee Chronicle_ (1956); two short studies of James Blair, Daniel E. Motley, _Life of Commissary James Blair_ (1901), and Edgar L. Pennington, _Commissary Blair_ (1936); two biographies of Edmund Pendleton, Robert L. Hilldrup, _The Life and Times of Edmund Pendleton_ (1939), and David J. Mays, _Edmund Pendleton_ (1952); there are several biographies of Captain John Smith. Philip A. Bruce, _The Virginia Plutarch_ (1929), gives brief biographies of Sir William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon, Alexander Spotswood, William Byrd II, Patrick Henry, and others. Among other biographies are Richmond C. Beatty, _William Byrd of Westover_ (1932); Thomas J. Wertenbaker, _Torchbearer of the Revolution, The Story of Bacon's Rebellion and Its Leader_ (1940); Leonidas Dodson, _Alexander Spotswood_ (1932); Louis K. Koontz, _Robert Dinwiddie_ (1941); Louis Morton, _Robert Carter of Nomini Hall_ (1941); Kate Mason Rowland, _Life and Correspondence of George Mason_ (1892); William Wirt Henry, _Patrick Henry_ (1891); A. T. S. Goodrick, _Edward Randolph_ (1898-1909); Thomas Jefferson, _Autobiography_. There are numerous Virginia local histories, among them W. Asbury Christian, _Richmond, Her Past and Present_ (1912); (1931); Ralph T. Whitelaw, _Virginia's Eastern Shore_ (1951); John B. Bodie, _Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia_ (1938); Marshall Wingfield, _A History of Caroline County, Virginia_ (1924); and Herbert C. Bradshaw, _History of Prince Edward County, Virginia_ (1955).