rpont Morgan Library, for use of
an important Martha Washington letter.

To Dr. St. George L. Sioussat, chief of the division of manuscripts of
the Library of Congress.

To Mr. Allen L. Reese, for exciting finds among the Washington papers in
that library.

To Mrs. Andrew Pickens, for notes on the Fowle family.

To Mr. Louis de Cazenove, for information on the Cazenove family.

To the late Mr. Cazenove Lee, for the story of General Robert E. Lee and
the Edmund I. Lee house.

To Mr. W.B. McGroarty, for the letters and biographical information on
Dr. Dick and permission to quote from his works.

To the Corcoran Gallery of Art for photographs of St. Memin's
Alexandrians.

To Mr. John O. Brostrup, Mr. Thomas Neil Darling, Mr. Lewis P. Woltz,
and others, for the use of photographs.

And last but not least, to Lena Harris, my old and faithful maid, who
made it all possible.

Chapter References

PART ONE: PROLOGUE

_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