[3] Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, Session 1727-34, 1736-40, 204.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid., Session 1742-47, 1748-49, 30.
[6] Fairfax County was formed from Prince William in 1742 (Journals of the House of Burgesses, Virginia, 1742-47, 70; and Hening, V, 207-8) after numerous petitions to this effect had been presented to the Burgesses, beginning as early as 1732 (Ibid., 1727-34, 1738-40, 146), with a request to divide the county into two parishes.
[7] Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1748-49, 1742-47, 265.
[8] Ibid., 375.
[9] Ibid., 404-5.
[10] Hening, Statutes at Large, VI, 214; and Caton's Jottings, 6-8.
[11] Caton's Jottings.
[12] Ibid.