Chapter 1 Notes

[Footnote 3: Stevens Thompson Mason, =Mason Family Chart= (Baltimore: privately printed, 1907). All genealogical material is taken either from this chart or from Kate Mason Rowland, =The Life of George Mason=.]

[Footnote 4: Rowland, =George Mason=, p. 365.]

[Footnote 5: =Ibid.=]

[Footnote 6: =Ibid.=, p. 307; The Letters of Elijah Fletcher, ed. by =Martha von Briesen=, (University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 1965), p. 8.]

[Footnote 7: Princeton Alumni Association, Princeton University]

[Footnote 8: Mary G. Powell, =The History of Old Alexandria Virginia=, (Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1928), p. 324. In her list of the Mayors of Alexandria Mrs. Powell also lists T.F. Mason incorrectly as S. Thomson (sic) Mason, although she spells the name without a "p" there.]

[Footnote 9: William F. Carne, =Alexandria Business Book= (Alexandria: M. Hill Co., 1897).]

[Footnote 10: Thomson Francis Mason Papers, 1820-38, Collection of William Francis Smith, Alexandria, Virginia.]

[Footnote 11: Marian Gouverneur, =As I Remember= (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1911), p. 212.]

[Footnote 12: Mrs. Betty Carter Smoot, =Days in an Old Town= (Alexandria: privately printed, 1934), p. 127. Colross was moved to Princeton, N.J., in 1929. According to a clipping in the Gunston Hall archives, which is undated and unidentified, it moved in "... a grand total of 16 carloads of brick, wood, marble, etc...."]

[Footnote 13: =Alexandria Gazette.= December 27, 1838.]

[Footnote 14: Noel F. Regis, "Some Notable Suits in Early District Courts," =Records of the Columbia Historical Society=. Volume 24 (1922), 68, and Charles S. Bundy, "History of the Office of Justice of the Peace," Volume 5 (1902), 278.]

[Footnote 15: Additional information may be found in the Thomson Francis Mason Papers, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Accession #1146. Also Gunston Hall Library, Gunston Hall, Lorton, Virginia.]