Lewis Burwell, armiger, Balliol, matric. 1765.
[240] Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England, i. 282, 412, 419; ii. 861. For neglecting to “set up school” for the year, a town would be presented by the grand jury of the county, and would then try to make excuses. “In February, 1744, the usual routine was repeated. The farmers were summoned ‘to know what the Town’s Mind is for doing about a School for the insuing year.’ The school of the previous year having cost £55 old tenor, which may have been equivalent to 55 Spanish dollars, and it being necessary to raise this sum by a general taxation, the Town’s Mind was for doing nothing; and not until the following July did it consent to have a school opened.” Bliss, Colonial Times on Buzzard’s Bay, p. 118.
[241] In my Beginnings of New England, pp. 148-153.
[242] Of the numbers in The Federalist, 51 were written by Hamilton, 29 by Madison, and 5 by Jay. But the frame of government which the book was written to explain and defend was not at all the work of Hamilton, whose part in the proceedings of the Federal Convention was almost nil. It was very largely the work of Madison, and while The Federalist shows Hamilton’s marvellous flexibility of intelligence, it is Madison who is master and Hamilton who is his expounder.
[243] See above, vol. i. p. 221.
[244] Stith, History of Virginia, preface, vi., vii.
[245] Byrd’s History of the Dividing Line, with his Journey to the Land of Eden, and A Progress to the Mines, remained in MS. for more than a century. They were published at Petersburg in 1841, under the title of Westover Manuscripts. A better edition, edited by T. H. Wynne, was published in 1866 under the title of Byrd Manuscripts.
[246] Byrd MSS. i. 5.
[247] Bruce, Economic History, ii. 234.
[248] See the history of the case, in Washington’s Writings, ed. W. C. Ford, xiv. 255-260. According to Mr. Paul Ford, “there can scarcely be a doubt that the treatment of his last illness by the doctors was little short of murder.” The True George Washington, p. 58. The question is suggested, if Washington had lived a dozen years longer, would there have been a second war with England?