[363] Professor William E. Dodd, in Am. Hist. Rev. xii, 776.
[364] For fuller description of the Virginia County Court system, see chap. ix of this volume.
[365] On the Virginia Republican machine, Roane, Ritchie, etc., see Dodd in Am. Hist. Rev. xii, 776-77; and in Branch Hist. Papers, June, 1903, 222; Smith in ib. June, 1905, 15; Thrift in ib. June, 1908, 183; also Dodd: Statesmen of the Old South, 70 et seq.; Anderson, 205; Turner: Rise of the New West, 60; Ambler: Ritchie, 27, 82.
[366] Several thousand acres of the Fairfax estate were not included in this joint purchase. (See infra, 150.)
[367] 1793-94. See vol. ii, 202-11, of this work.
[368] April 30, 1789. See Hunter vs. Fairfax's Devisee, 1 Munford, 223.
[369] For the district composed of Frederick, Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, and Shenandoah Counties.
[370] Order Book, Superior Court, No. 2, 43, Office of Clerk of Circuit Court, Frederick Co., Winchester, Va.
[371] The judges rendering this decision were St. George Tucker and William Nelson, Jr. (Ib.)
[372] In making out the record for appeal the fictitious name of Timothy Trititle was, of course, omitted, so that in the Court of Appeals and in the appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States the title of the case is Hunter vs. Fairfax's Devisee, instead of "Timothy Trititle, Lessee of David Hunter," vs. Fairfax's Devisee, and Martin vs. Hunter's Lessee.