[105] A number of years ago the Metropolitan Museum acquired by purchase the woodwork of the great ballroom, where so many of Alexandria's social events had taken place. It is an outstanding exhibit in the American wing.
[106] Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs, 451-452.
[107] Liber R, No. 2, 372. 1809. Alexandria.
[108] Alexandria Gazette, October 19, 1824.
[109] Fitzpatrick, Diaries, IV, 298.
[110] Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XVI, No. 4, 238.
[111] Ibid.
Alexandria Liber P, No. 2, 421. Indenture, July 8, 1802.
Chapter 7. THE MICHAEL SWOPE HOUSE.
[112] Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria, 1749-1767.