FOOTNOTES:
[1] i.e. Shields.
[2] Harrison's Virginia Land Grants, 63.
[3] Howison's History of Virginia, I., 387.
[4] Dr. P. A. Bruce in A Virginia Plutarch.
[5] Howison's History of Virginia.
[6] Fiske's Old Virginia and her Neighbours.
[7] Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood. Virginia Historical Society, 1882.
[8] Hening IV, 103.
[9] An Historical Sketch of the two Fairfax Families in Virginia. Lindsay Fairfax, (1913) p. 41. As to spelling of Culpeper or Colepeper, see Fairfax Harrison's Proprietors of the Northern Neck; also 33 Virginia Magazine History and Biography, 223.
[10] Neill's Fairfaxes of England and America, p. 8. (1868.)
[11] Micajah Perry, the great Virginia merchant of London.
[12] Landmarks of Old Prince William, I, 231.
[13] President of the Council.
[14] Chapter XIII.
[15] The well known Leeds Manor in Fauquier was one; named for Leeds Castle, the Fairfax seat in Kent.
[16] Land Patents Book, III, 248.
[17] Journal Cork Historical and Genealogical Society, 2nd Series, Vol. II, p. 213.
[18] Captain Daniel's descent is given in The McCarthys in Early American History, by Michael J. O'Brien, who corrects Hayden's assumption that Daniel was the son of Dennis of Lynn Haven, Lower Norfolk. Also see Chapter XIV.
[19] Aubrey's house is shewn on Robert Brooke's survey (1737) of the Potomac River below the Shenandoah. Original of survey is in Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore; photostat copy is in Library of Congress.
[20] History of Truro Parish, by Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D., Edited by Rev. Edward L. Goodwin, p. 7.
[21] Idem, 16.
[22] Landmarks of Old Prince William, 304.
[23] Chapter X post.
[24] Landmarks of Old Prince William, 148 and 155.
[25] Chapter VI post.
[26] Landmarks of Old Prince William, I., 267.
[27] Encyclopedia Britannica, "Friends, Society of."
[28] Fiske's Beginnings of New England.
[29] Testimony of a contemporary, the Rev. Andrew Stewart. The Scotch-Irish Settlers in the Valley of Virginia, by Bolivar Christian.
[30] Landmarks of Old Prince William, I., 235.
[31] Hening, 256. Also Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia, T. J. Wertenbaker, p. 164.
[32] E. I. McCormac's White Servitude in Maryland, p. 67.
[33] He refers to the Act passed in 1718, on the transportation of convicts.
[34] Landmarks of Old Prince William, I., 162.
[35] Historic Highways of America, A. B. Hulbert, I, 19.
[36] Hening, V, 176.
[37] Harry T. Harrison in Loudoun Times, 20 Dec., 1916.
[38] According to C. W. Sam's The Forest Primeval (p. 382) the Delawares and Catawbas were at war in 1732.
[39] Balch Library. Loudoun Clippings, Vol. 2, p. 66.
[40] Landmarks of Old Prince William, 481, 511.
[41] Landmarks, 423; also C. O. Van Devanter in Loudoun County Breeders Magazine, spring, 1931.
[42] Washington's Journal Of My Journey Over the Mountains. Edited by Dr. J. M. Toner in 1892. p. 52.
[43] Balch Library Clippings, III, 41 and 53.
[44] Encyclopedia Britannica, and W. S. Walsh's Curiosities of Popular Customs.
[45] History of Truro Parish in Virginia, 19.
[46] See Chapter VII post.
[47] See Mrs. Browne's narrative in next chapter.
[48] Landmarks of Old Prince William, 273.
[49] The will is on record in Fairfax County.
[50] Landmarks, 502; also Fairfax County Wills A1, 309 and B1, 26.
[51] C. O. Vandevantner in Northern Virginian, winter issue, 1932.
[52] Life of George Mason, by Kate Mason Rowland.
[53] Idem., 79.
[54] Liber 3, Fol. 181, N. N. Grants.
[55] Fairfax County Land Records Liber C1 p. 806.
[56] Douglass Family, by J. S. Wise.
[57] Baptists in Virginia, by R. B. Semple; also 3 Balch Library Clippings, 64.
[58] Balch Library Clippings, IV, 4.
[59] Depositions in Powell vs. Chinn, Loudoun Archives.
[60] Loudoun Superior Court Orders C 38.
[61] Balch Library Clippings, II, 84.
[62] Virginia Land Grants, 130.
[63] Journal of Washington 1754. Edited by J. M. Toner M. D.
[64] History of an Expedition Against Fort DuQuesne in 1755, by Winthrop Sargent p. 193.
[65] Idem, 294.
[66] 7 Hening, 9.
[67] 6 Hening, 438.
[68] 6 Hening, 453.
[69] Newspaper clipping Balch Library, Leesburg, Vol. 1. Loudoun County 70.
[70] Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 38, p. 169.
[71] i.e. Cured ham or even bacon.
[72] Fairfax Harrison suggests error; that Rev. John Andrews, then Parson of Cameron Parish, was the man. No Parson named Adams then in Virginia.
[73] 7 Hening, 171 and 222.
[74] History of Truro Parish, i.
[75] Known as Chapter XXII. See 7 Hening, 148.
[76] See Chapter XIII post.
[77] See chapter VII ante.
[78] Archives of Maryland, Published by Maryland Historical Society 1900.
[79] Landmarks, I., 327 and 344.
[80] I owe both the copy of the map and its history to Mr. Thomas M. Fendall of Morrisworth and Leesburg.
[81] Loudoun Orders A, 142.
[82] Loudoun Orders A, 162.
[83] Loudoun Deeds B, 149.
[84] Loudoun Orders A, 544.
[85] 7 Hening, 234.
[86] Head, 72.
[87] Loudoun Orders A, 91.
[88] 7 Hening, 301.
[89] 8 Hening, 425.
[90] 8 Hening, 202.
[91] See biography in Encyclopedia Britannica under name of Landsdowne.
[92] In Loudoun National Bank.
[93] The Colonial Church in Virginia, Rev. E. L. Goodwin, p. 116. Also see Colonel Leven Powell, by Dr. R. C. Powell and Appleton's Encyclopedia American Biography.
[94] 8 Hening, 147.
[95] 9 Hening, 586.
[96] Landmarks, 504.
[97] 7 Hening, 126.
[98] In this ferry situation, Landmarks of Old Prince William is an invaluable guide.
[99] Goodheart's Loudoun Rangers, 6.
[100] Copy found among papers of Colonel Leven Powell. See 12 William and Mary Quarterly (1) 231.
[101] Loudoun "Orders" G 517-522. Head, 134.
[102] The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, The Dial Press, New York.
[103] The name persists in England. In July, 1937, on leaving the Tower of London, I found myself facing another "Crooked Billet," a public house at 32 Minories.
[104] The book itself should be read. The above abstractions necessarily omit much of fascinating interest.
[105] 8 Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 139.
[106] History of Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, by Samuel Kercheval, 149.
[107] 9 Hening, 586.
[108] 9 Hening, 584.
[109] 23 Virginia Magazine History and Biography, 261.
[110] 2 Balch Library Clippings, 18.
[111] See Tyler's Quarterly V-61.
[112] Balch Library Clippings II, 48 and IV, 1.
[113] 5 Virginia Magazine History and Biography, 377.
[114] 2 Virginia Colonial State Papers, 258.
[115] 2 Virginia Colonial State Papers, 308.
[116] Quotations are from the 2nd edition published in 1827 in Washington by Peter Force.
[117] Supposed to have been General Gates.
[118] Lee, the narrator.
[119] Thus Lee's account, but Champe apparently afterwards found it expedient to enlist with the British, as will appear later.
[120] Historic Collections of Virginia, by Henry Howe, 1849.
[121] Vol. 3, Balch Library Clippings, p. 30.
[122] See article on Binns by Rodney H. True in 2 William and Mary Quarterly (2) 20.
[123] Old Saint James Episcopal Church, by Miss Lizzie Worsley.
[124] 2 Shepherd, 107.
[125] See Chapter VII ante.
[126] 12 Hening, 605.
[127] 2 Shepherd, 270.
[128] 2 Shepherd, 549.
[129] See Chapter XIV post.
[130] Acts 1810, p. 37.
[131] Acts 1824-5, p. 86. For historical sketch of village see 2 Balch Library Clippings, 1. For Snickers also see 2 Landmarks, 509.
[132] See Loudoun Deeds W271, W263, Y132, etc.
[133] Loudoun Deeds Y20, 2 R287 and 2 W208.
[134] See Chapter XIII ante.
[135] 6 Ns Deeds 272, Loudoun County records.
[136] Issue of 12th October, 1818.
[137] 2nd Nov., 1819.
[138] 9th Nov., 1819.
[139] 26th Oct., 1818.
[140] 20th Jan., 1818.
[141] i.e. the thickening and cleansing of woollen cloth.
[142] See Chapter XIII ante.
[143] Chapter IV ante.
[144] Presumably Fayette Ball of Springwood and Richard Henderson, a prominent lawyer of Leesburg.
[145] General Lafayette's Visit to Virginia, by Robert D. Ward.
[146] See Chapter XIII.
[147] See Chapter XIII.
[148] See Chapter VII.
[149] Charles Fenton Mercer, by James M. Garnett.
[150] See Briscoe Goodheart in 4 Balch Clippings 33.
[151] Bishop Mead's Old Churches of Virginia, II, 274. Also see Landmarks 306 and Selden vs. Overseers, XI Leigh 127.
[152] Loudoun Minute Book 1861-65, p. 69. Also statements to author by Mr. Fox's daughter, Mrs. John Mason of Leesburg.
[153] Loudoun Rangers, by Briscoe Goodhart, p. 19.
[154] The Comanches, by F. M. Myers, p. 19.
[155] To get the full flavor of the bitterness engendered, read F. M. Myers' Comanches, and Goodhart's Loudoun Rangers.
[156] Condensed from Hotchkiss' Virginia Military History as quoted by Head, p. 138. Also White's Battle of Ball's Bluff. For Gen. Evans' report see "Official Reports, Sept. to Dec. 1861," published in Richmond in 1862.
[157] Myers' Comanches, p. 314.
[158] Same, pp. 148, 154, 242, 315, 342, 353, etc.
[159] See manuscript memorandum prepared by Mrs. Magnus Thompson and now in possession of Colonel White's granddaughter, Miss Elizabeth White, of Selma.
[160] The Loudoun Rangers, by Briscoe Goodhart, 44.
[161] Head, 150.
[162] Loudoun Rangers, 44.
[163] War of the Rebellion; Official Records, Vol. 27, p. 118.
[164] "Reports Army of Northern Virginia," from June 1862 to Dec. 1862. Vol. II, pp. 99, 187, 211, 246, 282, etc.
[165] Myers' Comanches, 111; also report of Colonel J. M. Davis, War of the Rebellion: Official Records, Vol. 27, p. 1091.
[166] Williamson, 105.
[167] Economic and Social Survey of Loudoun County, 22.
[168] History of Loudoun County, 149.
[169] Mosby's War Reminiscences, 41.
[170] Mosby's Rangers, by J. J. Williamson, 15.
[171] Same, 175.
[172] Mosby's War Reminiscences, 44.
[173] See rosters in Williamson, pp. 475 and 487.
[174] Life and Campaigns of General J. E. B. Stuart, by H. B. McClellan, 301.
[175] Moore's Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry, 71.
[176] Life and Campaigns of Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, 303.
[177] Williamson, 317.
[178] Comanches, 356.
[179] House Report No. 3859.
[180] 17 Loudoun Minute Books, 70.
[181] Idem, 2.
[182] The Negro in Virginia Politics, 27.
[183] Autobiography of Eppa Hunton, pp. 147, 148.
[184] Loudoun Mirror of the 10th January, 1872.
[185] R. L. Morton's The Negro in Virginia Politics and H. J. Eckenrode's Political Reconstruction in Virginia.
[186] Travels through the middle settlements in North America by Rev. (afterward Archdeacon) Andrew Burnaby, DD. 3rd Edition. 1798. Appendix p. 163. The first and second editions do not include the interesting little biography of Lord Fairfax.
[187] On every anniversary of the Armistice commemorative services are held before it.
[188] For a history of the Library see article in The Northern Virginian, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 22, by the present author who is deeply interested in the institution of which he has been President and a Director since 1925. Of its fine collection of historical material on Loudoun free use has been made in the present work.
[189] I am indebted to Father Igoe and to Mr. John T. Hourihane of Leesburg for the facts concerning St. John's.
[190] For a history of the hospital see article by Mrs. Arthur M. Chichester in The Northern Virginian, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 25.