FOOTNOTES:
[982] Grigsby, i, 25.
[983] Travelers from the District of Kentucky or from the back settlements of Virginia always journeyed fully armed, in readiness to defend themselves from attack by Indians or others in their journey through the wilderness.
[984] Grigsby, i, 27-28.
[985] Ib., 25.
[986] The Jockey Club was holding its annual races at Richmond when the Constitutional Convention of 1788 convened. (Christian, 31.)
[987] Grigsby, i. 31.
[988] Humphrey Marshall, from the District of Kentucky, saw for the first time one number of the Federalist, only after he had reached the more thickly peopled districts of Virginia while on his way to the Convention. (ib., footnote to 31.)
[989] George Nicholas to Madison, April 5, 1788; Writings: Hunt, v, footnote to p. 115.
[990] "The most common and ostensible objection was that it [the Constitution] would endanger state rights and personal liberty—that it was too strong." (Humphrey Marshall, i, 285.)