Chapter 37

_An Account of the First Century of the Seaport of Alexandria._

[Footnote 1: Caton, _Jottings from the Annals of Alexandria_, 3-4; and Powell, _The History of Old Alexandria, Virginia_, 25.]

[Footnote 2: Hening, _Statutes at Large_, IV, 268.]

[Footnote 3: _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia_, Session 1727-34, 1736-40, 204.]

[Footnote 4: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 5: _Ibid._, Session 1742-47, 1748-49, 30.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 7: _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia_, 1748-49, 1742-47, 265.]

[Footnote 8: _Ibid._, 375.]

[Footnote 9: _Ibid._, 404-5.]

[Footnote 10: Hening, _Statutes at Large_, VI, 214; and Caton's _Jottings_, 6-8.]

[Footnote 11: Caton's _Jottings_.]

[Footnote 12: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 13: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 14: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 15: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 17: _Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria_, 1749-1767.]

[Footnote 18: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 19: From data contributed by Robert C. Gooch, Chief of General Reference and Bibliography Division, Library of Congress, Letter dated April 11, 1947.]

[Footnote 20: _Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria_, 1749-1767.]

[Footnote 21: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 22: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 23: _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia_, 1752-1755, 1756-1758, 21, 24 and 31.]

[Footnote 24: _Ibid._, 27.]

[Footnote 25: _Ibid._, 34.]

[Footnote 26: Analoston Island, formerly My Lords Island, was part of the Alexander purchase.]

[Footnote 27: _Minutes of the Trustees, Recorded Deeds_; and Carne's _Tiny Town_ notes.]

[Footnote 28: Fitzpatrick, _Diaries of George Washington_, I, 74.]

[Footnote 29: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 30: _Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington_, I, 148-150, Washington's Report to Governor Dinwiddie, July 18, 1755.]

[Footnote 31: Burnaby, _Through the Middle Settlements in North America_ (1759-60), 40.]

[Footnote 32: Fitzpatrick, _Diaries of George Washington_, I, 163.]

[Footnote 33: _Ibid._, 294.]

[Footnote 34: _Ibid._, 294.]

[Footnote 35: Fitzpatrick, _Writings of George Washington_, II, 338.]

[Footnote 36: _Minutes of the House of Burgesses_, November 5, 1762, 76, (Vol. 1761-1765); _Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria,_ 1749-1767.]

[Footnote 37: _Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria,_ 1749-1767.]

[Footnote 38: _House of Burgesses Journal,_ 1761-1765, 246.]

[Footnote 39: _Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria,_ 1749-1767.]

[Footnote 40: _Order Book_, Fairfax Court House, 1768-1770, 338.]

[Footnote 41: _The Charter and Laws of Alexandria, Va._, 78.]

[Footnote 42: Harrison, _Landmarks of Old Prince William_, II, 416, note 46.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 44: Wilstack, _Mount Vernon_, 138.]

[Footnote 45: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 46: Fitzpatrick, _Diaries of George Washington_, II, 209.]

[Footnote 47: Letter of Olney Winsor to his wife in Providence, Rhode Island. Original in archives, State Library, Richmond, Virginia.]

[Footnote 48: Harrison, _Landmarks of Old Prince William_, II, 409.]

[Footnote 49: Morse, _The American Geography_, 381.]

[Footnote 50: Harrison, _Landmarks of Old Prince William_, II, 408.]

[Footnote 51: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 52: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 53: _A Stranger in America_ (Anonymous), 213.]

[Footnote 54: Snowden, _The Laws of the Corporation of the Town of Alexandria from 1779 to 1811_, 32.]

[Footnote 55: Fitzpatrick, _Writings of George Washington_, III, 18.]

[Footnote 56: Caton, _Jottings_, 115.]