[408:B] Washington's Writings, ii. 239, 252.
[408:C] Lossing's Field-Book of the Revolution, ii. 471. This work is a reservoir of valuable information.
[409:A] Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Burke's Landed Gentry, ii., art. Spottiswood.
[409:B] See Hist. of St. George's Parish, by Rev. Philip Slaughter, 55, and Bishop Meade's Old Churches, etc., ii. 77.
[409:C] 1852.
[409:D] Letter of Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., written in 1852, to Rev. John B. Spotswood, of New Castle, Delaware.
[409:E] Beattie's Scotland Illustrated, i. 31.
[409:F] Arms of Governor Spotswood.—Argent, a cheveron gules, between three oak-trees eradicate, vert. Supporters, two satyrs proper. Crest: an eagle displayed gules, looking to the sun in his splendor, proper. Motto: "Patior ut potiar." Chief seat: at the old Castle of Spotswood, in Berwickshire.—(Burke's Landed Gentry.)
