[1298] Grayson to Dane, June 18, 1788; Dane MSS., Lib. Cong.

[1299] Logan and Story to Stephen Collins, Petersburg, Nov. 2, 1787; Collins MSS., Lib. Cong.

[1300] See Grigsby, i, 278-79, for an able and sympathetic account from the point of view of the settler and debtor.

[1301] Ib., 280-84; Elliott, iii, 517-21.

[1302] Elliott, iii, 522; Grigsby, i, 284. So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it is more than probable that the Constitution would have been defeated.

[1303] Elliott, iii, 524.

[1304] His own and his father's lands in Fauquier County were derived through the Fairfax title.

[1305] Grigsby, i, 290.

[1306] Elliott, iii, 530-39. For Marshall's repetition see ib., 551-62.

[1307] Elliott, iii, 539-46.