[540] Betsy Ambler to Mildred Smith, 1780; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 537.
[541] Jefferson to Short, Dec. 14, 1788; Works: Ford, vi, 24. Twelve years after Marshall's marriage, there were but seven hundred houses in Richmond. (Weld, i, 188.)
[542] Pecquet du Bellet, i, 35-37. He was very rich. (See inventory of John Ambler's holdings, ib.) This opulent John Ambler married John Marshall's sister Lucy in 1792 (ib., 40-41); a circumstance of some interest when we come to trace Marshall's views as influenced by his connections and sympathies.
[543] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 548.
[544] She was born March 18, 1766, and married January 3, 1783. (Paxton, 37.) Marshall's mother was married at the same age.
[545] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 548.
[546] Thomas Marshall's will shows that he owned, when he died, several years later, an immense quantity of land.
[547] Supra, chap. II.
[548] Fauquier County Tithable Book, 1783-84; MS., Va. St. Lib.
[549] Ib.