[176] Stephen Reeve was a Philadelphia silversmith.
[177] Tyler's Ferry.
[178] See this catalogue of Carter's library in Appendix, pp. 221-229.
[179] Mrs. Tayloe.
[180] John Dunlap had established the Pennsylvania Packet in 1771.
[181] Colonel Richard Henry Lee of "Chantilly."
[182] This Betsey Lee was perhaps Elizabeth, the daughter of John Lee of Essex County, a nephew of President Thomas Lee.
[183] This Elizabeth Lee was the daughter of the late George Lee of "Mount Pleasant" and his first wife Judith Wormeley of "Rosegill" in Middlesex County. She died unmarried.
[184] A trill, or rapid reiteration of two notes comprehending an interval not greater than one whole tone, nor less than a semitone.
[185] James Marshall, Fithian's predecessor as tutor of the Carter children, had formerly been an usher at the College of William and Mary. Marshall had inherited a plantation in Orange County. The Virginia Gazette of April 18, 1773 had announced the death of Marshall, at "Nomini Hall" and had corrected the error in its next issue.