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[Footnote 100: _Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, XVI, No. 4, 233.]

[Footnote 101: So-called by Thomas T. Waterman, author of _The Mansions of Virginia_.]

[Footnote 102: _Columbia Mirror and Alexandria Gazette_, October 30, 1793.]

[Footnote 103: _Ibid._, November 6, 1793.]

[Footnote 104: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 105: A number of years ago the Metropolitan Museum acquired by purchase the woodwork of the great ballroom, where so many of Alexandria's social events had taken place. It is an outstanding exhibit in the American wing.]

[Footnote 106: Custis, _Recollections and Private Memoirs_, 451-452.]

[Footnote 107: _Liber R_, _No. 2_, 372. 1809. Alexandria.]

[Footnote 108: _Alexandria Gazette_, October 19, 1824.]

[Footnote 109: Fitzpatrick, _Diaries_, IV, 298.]

[Footnote 110: _Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, XVI, No. 4, 238.]

[Footnote 111: _Ibid._]

_Alexandria Liber P_, No. 2, 421. Indenture, July 8, 1802.