Chapter References
Part One Prologue
An Account of the First Century of the Seaport of Alexandria.
Notes
1 Caton, Jottings from the Annals of Alexandria, 3-4; and Powell, The History of Old Alexandria, Virginia, 25.
2 Hening, Statutes at Large, IV, 268.
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.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 In 1748 George Washington made a survey of the site of Belle Haven, and the following year, 1749, a plan of the town, doubtless for his brother, Lawrence, who purchased lots. Now with the Washington papers in the Library of Congress.
17 Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria, 1749-1767.
18 Ibid.
19 From data contributed by Robert C. Gooch, Chief of General Reference and Bibliography Division, Library of Congress, Letter dated April 11, 1947.
20 Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria, 1749-1767.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1752-1755, 1756-1758, 21, 24 and 31.
24 Ibid., 27.
25 Ibid., 34.
26 Analoston Island, formerly My Lords Island, was part of the Alexander purchase.
27 Minutes of the Trustees, Recorded Deeds; and Carne’s Tiny Town notes.
28 Fitzpatrick, Diaries of George Washington, I, 74.
29 Ibid.
30 Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, I, 148-150, Washington’s Report to Governor Dinwiddie, July 18, 1755.
31 Burnaby, Through the Middle Settlements in North America (1759-60), 40.
32 Fitzpatrick, Diaries of George Washington, I, 163.
33 Ibid., 294.
34 Ibid., 294.
35 Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, II, 338.
36 Minutes of the House of Burgesses, November 5, 1762, 76, (Vol. 1761-1765); Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria, 1749-1767.
37 Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria, 1749-1767.
38 House of Burgesses Journal, 1761-1765, 246.
39 Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria, 1749-1767.
40 Order Book, Fairfax Court House, 1768-1770, 338.
41 The Charter and Laws of Alexandria, Va., 78.
42 Harrison, Landmarks of Old Prince William, II, 416, note 46.
43 Letter to George Washington from Lund Washington, April 28, 1792. Toner Transcripts, Library of Congress. Copied from notes in Mount Vernon Ladies Association Library.
44 Wilstack, Mount Vernon, 138.
45 Ibid.
46 Fitzpatrick, Diaries of George Washington, II, 209.
47 Letter of Olney Winsor to his wife in Providence, Rhode Island. Original in archives, State Library, Richmond, Virginia.
48 Harrison, Landmarks of Old Prince William, II, 409.
49 Morse, The American Geography, 381.
50 Harrison, Landmarks of Old Prince William, II, 408.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 A Stranger in America (Anonymous), 213.
54 Snowden, The Laws of the Corporation of the Town of Alexandria from 1779 to 1811, 32.
55 Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, III, 18.
56 Caton, Jottings, 115.