The Stronghold: A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People
PART II--_EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
MURDERS IN STAFFORD
_The Life of George Mason_, by Kate M. Rowland.
_Ibid._, p. 69.
_Letters of Col. George Mason_, II.
FREE SCHOOLS
_Cradle of the Republic_, by Lyon G. Tyler.
_History of Virginia_, by Robert Beverley, 1703.
_William and Mary College Quarterly_, Vol. 17, pp. 244-247.
_William and Mary College Quarterly_, Vol. xvii, p. 188.
_Social Life of Virginia in the 17th Century_, by P. A. Bruce.
_A History of Education in Virginia_, by C. J. Heatwole.
_William and Mary College Quarterly_, Vol. XIII, Series I, p. 158. (Landon Carter)
THE HOME IN THE FOREST
_George Washington_, V. I, by D. S. Freeman.
10 R. Lancaster Wills and Inventories, 88.
"Mary Ball Washington and Her Family," by Robert O. Norris, Jr., in _Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine_, December, 1953.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank, Nos. 159, 161, 162.
_Virginia Carolorum_, by Edward D. Neill.
CHERRY POINT
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
"Mary Ball Washington and Her Family," by Robert O. Norris, Jr., in _Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine_, December, 1953.
_The Mother of Washington and Her Times_, by Sara Pryor.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
"Will of Mary Hewes," found in Archives of Northumberland County, by Rev. G. W. Beale, published in _Virginia Historical Magazine_.
19 Northumberland Orders, 42.
Northumberland County Order Book, No. 6, p. 17.
SANDY POINT
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
"Mary Ball Washington and Her Family," by Robert O. Norris, Jr., in _Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine_, December, 1953.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank, Nos. 115, 117, 121.
Will of Mary Hewes, (19 Northumberland Orders, 42).
_Yeocomico Church, Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.
_The Mother of Washington and Her Times_, by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, 1903.
_Virginians at Home_, by Edmund S. Morgan, 1952.
Westmoreland Deeds and Wills, 72. (Will of Samuel Bonum.)
AUGUSTINE
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
Hening's _Statutes_, Vol. I, p. 160. (Fees)
"Mary Ball Washington and Her Family," by Robert O. Norris, Jr., in _Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine_, December, 1953.
_Wakefield, The Birthplace of Washington_, by Paul Hudson, Museum Specialist National Park Service.
"Colonel George Eskridge," by Lucy Brown Beale, in _Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine_, December, 1953.
POPES CREEK
19 Northumberland Orders, 42. (The will of Mary Hewes.)
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
_Wakefield, The Birthplace of Washington_, by Paul Hudson, Museum Specialist National Park Service.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
THE WAR PATH
_James Madison_, Vol. I, by Irving Brant.
_The Life of George Mason_ (1725-1792), by Kate M. Rowland.
_Colonial History of New York_, Vol. V, pp. 655-677.
_Virginia Historical Magazine_, 1904-06.
_James Mooney, The Siouan Tribes of the East_, Smithsonian Institution: 1894.
_Archeologic Investigation in James and Potomac Valleys_, by Gerad Fowke, Smithsonian Institution: 1894.
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
Byrd Manuscripts, Vol. II, p, 262.
FALMOUTH
_The Life of George Mason_ (1725-1792), by Kate M. Rowland.
Address of Rev. Phillip Slaughter before Virginia Historical Society, 1850.
_In Tidewater Virginia_, by Dora Chinn Jett, 1924.
A letter written by a Scotch girl while on a visit to Falmouth, published in _The Herald_, Fredericksburg, June 3, 1854.
BURNT HOUSE FIELD
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
_The Lees of Virginia_, by B. J. Hendrick.
"President Thomas Lee of Virginia," by Wm. M. E. Rachal, in _Virginia Cavalcade_, Summer, 1953.
"Stratford Hall," by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle, _Holiday Magazine_, January, 1953.
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," Department of Conservation and Development of Virginia.
STRATFORD HALL
Stratford Hall and the Lees, by F. W. Alexander.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
"Stratford Hall," by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle, _Holiday Magazine_, January, 1953.
"President Thomas Lee of Virginia," by Wm. M. E. Rachal, in _Virginia Cavalcade_, Summer, 1953.
_The Lees of Virginia_, by Burton J. Hendrick.
A poem which described the early Stratford, by Carter Lee, brother of General R. E. Lee.
_Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.
"The Summerhouse," a talk by Marcus Whiffen, Williamsburg Antiques Forum, February, 1956.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
"Wakefield, The Birthplace of Washington," by Paul Hudson, published in _The Commonwealth_, February, 1954.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
EPSEWASSON
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
_Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock_, by M. D. Conway.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
FERRY FARM
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
_Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock_, by M. D. Conway.
_King George Inventories_, 1721-44, pp. 285-91.
FREDERICKSBURG
Act of establishing town of Fredericksburg.
_Diary of Col. Wm. Byrd of Westover, 1732._
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
_Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock_, by M. M. Conway.
_Tidewater Virginia_, by Paul Wilstach.
SCHOOL DAYS
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
_The Private Life of George Washington_, by F. R. Bellamy.
_Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock_, by M. D. Conway.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
_Wakefield_, by Paul Hudson.
THE INDIANS
_Old Virginia and Her Neighbours_, Vol. II, by John Fiske.
_Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia_, by Ben C. McCary, 1957.
_The Chesapeake Bay Country_, by Sampson Earle.
Beverley's _History of Virginia._
THE POW-WOW
"President Thomas Lee of Virginia," by Wm. M. E. Rachal, _Virginia Cavalcade_, Summer, 1953.
_The Lees of Virginia_, by Burton J. Hendrick.
A pamphlet: "A Treaty held at the town of Lancaster, Penn., with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744, Philadelphia; printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin at the New Printing Office near the Market, 1744."
A pamphlet describing the conference at Lancaster, published by William Parks, in Williamsburg, Va.
_Virginia Magazine of History_, XIII, 5.
_James Madison_, Vol. I, by Irving Brant, p. 46.
MOUNT VERNON
"To the Walls of Cartagena," by Wm. H. Gaines, Jr., _Virginia Cavalcade_, Winter, 1955.
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
_Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock_, by M. D. Conway.
_The Private Life of George Washington_, by F. R. Bellamy.
WASHINGTON WASHED HERE--
Spotsylvania Orders, 1749-55, p. 141.
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman.
THE ORDINARY
"Narrative of George Fisher (1750-55), His Voyage from London to Virginia," _William and Mary Quarterly._
NELLY
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
_James Madison_, by Irving Brant, 1941.
"James Madison, Father of the Constitution," by Wm. M. E. Rachal, _Virginia Cavalcade_, Winter, 1951.
"The Evening of Their Glory," by Wm. H. Gaines, Jr., _Virginia Cavalcade_, Summer, 1953.
MISS BETSY
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
_Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.
_Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock_, by M. D. Conway.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE NORTHERN NECK
_Virginia, Its History and Antiquities_, circa 1840; pp. 235-36, 275.
_A History of the Valley of Virginia_, by Samuel Kercheval, 1833.
Smithey's _History of Virginia_, 1915; pp. 72-79.
Magill's _History of Virginia_, 1888.
_Fairfax_, by J. Esten Cooke, 1868.
_Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.
_State Historical Markers of Virginia_, 1948.
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
THE MARSHALLS
_The Life of John Marshall_, by A. J. Beveridge.
Records of Westmoreland County, Deeds and Wills, viii, 1, 276.
Records of Westmoreland County, Deeds and Wills, xi, 419.
Will of John "of the forest," made April 1, 1752, probated May 26, 1752, and recorded June 22, 1752; Records of Westmoreland County, Deeds and Wills, xi, 419.
_Autobiography, John Marshall._
_Binney, in Dillon_, iii, 287-88. (Description of J. Marshall.)
Will of Thomas Marshall, "carpenter," probated May 31, 1704; Records of Westmoreland County, Deeds and Wills, iii, 232, _et seq._
THE LEEDSTOWN RESOLUTIONS
Fithian's _Journal_, pp. 84, 248, 258.
_Historic Northern Neck of Virginia_, by H. Ragland Eubank, No. 75.
FITHIAN
_The Journal of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-74_, edited by Hunter Dickinson Farish, Williamsburg, Va., 1945.
THE SCHOOL IN THE WILDWOOD
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank, Nos. 31, 59.
_Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia_, by David W. Eaton, p. 44.
_The Life of John Marshall_, by A. J. Beveridge.
_Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia_, by Bishop Meade, Vol. II, pp. 159-161.
_James Monroe_, by W. P. Cresson.
Manuscript by Rose Gouveneur Hoes, in James Monroe Law Office, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
JAMES AND JOHN
_James Monroe's Childhood and Youth_, by Rose Gouveneur Hoes.
_James Monroe_, by W. P. Cresson, 1946, Chapel Hill.
_The Life of John Marshall_, by Albert J. Beveridge.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank, Nos. 31, 58, 63.
_Meade's Old Churches, etc._, V. 2, pp. 159-161.
_Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia_, by D. W. Eaton, p. 44.
_Binney, in Dillon_, iii, pp. 287-288.
CAPTAIN DOBBY
Fithian's _Journal_.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
PEDLARS
_Life of Capt. John Smith_, by W. Gilmore Simms, 1846.
_Historic Dress in America_, by Elizabeth McClellan.
_Home Life in Colonial Days_, by Alice M. Earle.
SEVEN SATIN PETTICOATS
_Olivia Frances Jett Williams_ (1874-1940).
PHI BETA KAPPA
_Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography_, under the editorial supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL.D., Vol. II, 1915.
_The History of Phi Beta Kappa_, by Oscar M. Voorhees, D.D., LL.D., 1945. (The Founding of the Society, 1776.)
"Records of Phi Beta Kappa Society of William and Mary College," printed in _William and Mary College Quarterly_, IV, 236.
LIGHT-HORSE HARRY
"Speech Delivered at Spring Celebration at Stratford," by Blake Tyler Newton, May 6, 1951. _Northern Neck Historical Magazine_, December, 1952.
_The Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee_, by James D. McCabe, Jr., published 1866.
_The Lees of Virginia_, by Burton J. Hendrick.
_John Marshall_, by Albert J. Beveridge, p. 138.
A BAND OF BROTHERS
_The Lees of Virginia_, by Burton J. Hendrick.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
"The Six Brothers of Stratford Hall," by Rev. Edmund J. Lee, D.D., in _Northern Neck Historical Magazine_, December, 1952.
THE DIVINE MATILDA
_Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.
_The Lees of Virginia_, by Burton J. Hendrick.
_Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected With Its History_, by F. W. Alexander.
"Stratford Hall," by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle, _Holiday_, January, 1953.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
Fithian's _Journal_.
_Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia_, 1782, published in Baltimore, 1788, by Lucinda Lee (daughter of Thomas Ludwell Lee).
MADAM WASHINGTON
_George Washington_, Vol. I, by D. S. Freeman.
_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.
_The Mother of Washington and Her Times_, by Sara Pryor.
"Betty Lewis," by Elizabeth Dabney Coleman, _Virginia Cavalcade_, Winter, 1952.
AFTER THE REVOLUTION
"After the Revolution," by Arthur H. Jennings, _Richmond Times-Dispatch_.
_Virginians at Home_, by Edmund S. Morgan, 1952, p. 3.
_Tobacco Coast_, by Arthur Pierce Middleton, Ph.D., 1953, p. 42.
_Historic Dress in America_, by Elizabeth McClellan.
_Virginia Methodism_, by W. W. Sweet.
"The Colonial Glebes," by Emily Blayton Major, in _Richmond Times-Dispatch_.
_Our Republic_, by Riley Chandler Hamilton, 1910.
MANTUA
"Old 'Mantua'," by Lucy Brown Beale, from notes of Dr. George William Beale, published in the _Northern Neck Historical Magazine_, 1951.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, Mantua, Northumberland County, Virginia, 1952.
The late Miss Sallie H. Barron, Warsaw, Virginia, 1952.