[530] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 547.
[531] Ib., 548. A story handed down through generations of lawyers confirms Mrs. Carrington. "I would have had my wife if I had had to climb Alleghanys of skulls and swim Atlantics of blood" the legend makes Marshall say in one of his convivial outbursts. (The late Senator Joseph E. McDonald to the author.)
[532] "The Palace" was a public building "not handsome without but ... spacious and commodious within and prettily situated." ("Notes on Virginia": Jefferson; Works: Ford, iv, 69.)
[533] Richard Anderson, the father of the defender of Fort Sumter. (Terhune: Colonial Homesteads, 97.)
[534] A country place of Edward Ambler's family in Hanover County. (See Pecquet du Bellet, i, 35.) Edward Ambler was now dead. His wife lived at "The Cottage" from the outbreak of the war until her death in 1781. (Ib., 26; and Mrs. Carrington to Mrs. Dudley, Oct. 10, 1796; MS.)
[535] Marshall to his wife, Feb. 23, 1826; MS.
[536] Most of the courts were closed because of the British invasion. (Flanders, ii, 301.)
[537] Infra, chap. VI.
[538] Autobiography.
[539] Betsy Ambler to Mildred Smith, 1780; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 537.