[731:A] Belvoir, about seven miles from Charlottesville, and the residence of the late Judge Hugh Nelson. The house has been burnt down.
[732:A] It is said that as one of the gentlemen, who was rather embonpoint, and who in this emergency had found time to put on nothing but his breeches, ran across the yard in full view of the British dragoons, they burst into a fit of laughter at so extraordinary a phenomenon.
[732:B] Francis Kinloch, of Kensington, South Carolina, meeting, in passing, with Eliza, only daughter of Mr. John Walker, who was also at Philadelphia attending congress, is said to have fallen in love with her at first sight, she having at the moment just come from her hair-dresser, and he afterwards married her: and Eliza, only daughter of that union, became the wife of the late Judge Hugh Nelson, United States Minister at Madrid.
[732:C] The general assembly presented him with a horse fully caparisoned and a pair of pistols for his vigilance and activity.
[733:A] Burk, iv.
[734:A] Howe's Hist. Coll. of Va., 207.
[736:A] Simcoe, 227. Plan of the skirmish opposite 236.
[736:B] Fourth of July.
[736:C] July 6th, 1781.
[737:A] July ninth.