[520] Betsy Ambler to Mildred Smith, 1780; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 536.
[521] See infra.
[522] Marshall to his wife, infra.
[523] Marshall could have had at least one year at William and Mary, for the college did not close until June, 1781. Also he could have continued to attend for several weeks after he left in June, 1780; for student John Brown's letters show that the college was still open on July 20 of that year.
[524] County Court Minutes of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1773-80, 473.
[525] Autobiography.
[526] Marshall, with other officers, did go to Philadelphia in January or February of 1777 to be inoculated for smallpox (Marshall to Colonel Stark, June 12, 1832, supporting latter's pension claim; MSS. Rev. War, S. F. no. 7592, Pension Bureau); but evidently he was not treated or the treatment was not effective.
[527] First, the written permission to be inoculated had to be secured from all the justices of the county; next, all the neighbors for two miles around must consent—if only one of them refused, the treatment could not be given. Any physician was fined ten thousand dollars, if he inoculated without these restrictions. (Hening, ix, 371.) If any one was stricken with smallpox, he was carried to a remote cabin in the woods where a doctor occasionally called upon him. (La Rochefoucauld, iii, 79-80; also De Warville, 433.)
[528] Horses were very scarce in Virginia at this time. It was almost impossible to get them even for military service.
[529] Southern Literary Messenger (quoting from a statement by Marshall), ii, 183.