36/67 contain allusions to various such feuds, and accounts of the jealousies existing not only between families, but between prominent members of the same family. See Milfort, Smyth, etc., as well as the native writers. Executions for "treason," murder, and horse-stealing were very common. For an instance where the three crimes were treated alike as deserving the death penalty the perpetrators being hung, see Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Vol.III., p. |