[550] See infra.
[551] Washington to Lund Washington, Aug. 15, 1778; Writings: Ford, vii, 151-52.
[552] Records of Fauquier County (Va.), Deed Book, vii, 533.
[553] Supra, chap. II.
[554] See infra, chap. VIII.
[555] Marshall to Monroe, Dec. 28, 1784; Monroe MSS., vii, 832; Lib. Cong.
[556] Marshall, ii, 104.
[557] Marshall to Monroe, Dec. 12, 1783; Draper Collection, Wis. Hist. Soc. Thomas Marshall first went to Kentucky in 1780 by special permission of the Governor of Virginia and while he was still Colonel of the State Artillery Regiment. (Humphrey Marshall, i, 104, 120.) During his absence his regiment apparently became somewhat demoralized. (Thomas Marshall to Colonel George Muter, Feb. 1781; MS. Archives, Va. St. Lib. and partly printed in Cal. Va. St. Prs., i, 549.) Upon his return to Virginia, he was appointed Surveyor of a part of Kentucky, November 1, 1780. (Collins: History of Kentucky, i, 20.) The following year he was appointed on the commission "to examine and settle the Public Accts in the Western Country" and expected to go to Kentucky before the close of the year, but did not, because his military certificates were not given him in time. (Thomas Marshall to Governor Harrison, March 17, 1781; Cal. Va. St. Prs., i, 578; and to Lieutenant-Governor Jameson, Oct. 14, 1781; ib., 549.) He opened his surveyor's office in Kentucky in November, 1782. (Butler: History of Kentucky, 138.) In 1783 he returned to Virginia to take his family to their new home, where he remained until his death in 1802. (Paxton, 19.) Thomas Marshall was immediately recognized as one of the leading men in this western Virginia district, and was elected to the Legislature and became "Surveyor [Collector] of Revenue for the District of Ohio." (See infra, chaps, III and V.)
[558] Betsy Ambler to Mildred Smith; Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 537.
[559] Mrs. Carrington to Mildred Smith, Jan. 10, 1786; MS.