[72] "Bumbo" was an eighteenth century slang term for rum. Sydnor, American Revolutionaries, p. 53.
[73] William C. Rives, History of the Life and Times of James Madison, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1873), I, 180–81.
[74] Porter, County Government, p. 107.
[75] Calendar of State Papers, IV, 337.
[76] Hening, Statutes, X, 198; XI, 432; XII, 273, 573; Shepherd, Laws, I, 114.
[77] Hening, Statutes, X, 385 (orphans); XII, 199 (mental health).
[78] The district court's jurisdiction included civil cases of a value of £30 or 2,000 lbs of tobacco, all criminal cases, and appeals from the county court in criminal cases. Hening, Statutes, XII, 730 et seq.
[79] Virginia, Code of 1819, I, 226.
[80] Hening, Statutes, XIII, 758.
[81] Hening, Statutes, XII, 174.