[590] Records of Fauquier County (Va.), Deed Book, viii, 241, March 16, 1785.
[591] The tavern kept by Farmicola, where Marshall's club met. (See supra.)
[592] Henrico County Tithable Book; Va. St. Lib. He had, of course, other slaves, horses, and cattle on his Fauquier County plantation.
[593] Christian, 28.
[594] Eliza Ambler to Mildred Smith, July 10, 1785; MS.; also printed in Atlantic Monthly, lxxxiv, 540-41.
[595] Drs. McClurg, Foushee, and Mackie.
[596] This book was purchased for his wife, who was extremely religious. The volume is in the possession of Judge J. K. M. Norton, Alexandria, Virginia. On the fly-leaf appears, "Mrs. Mary W. Marshall," in Marshall's handwriting. The book was also useful to Marshall for his own study of rhetoric, since Blair's sermons stood very high, at this time, as examples of style.
[597] Christian, 29, 30.
[598] This unbusinesslike balancing is characteristic of Marshall.
[599] Jacquelin Ambler Marshall, Dec. 3, 1787. (Paxton, 99.)