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”He is a boy and is indisputably in love in this good year 1763, and he courts and sighs and tries to capture his pretty little sweetheart, but like his friend George Was.h.i.+ngton, fails. The young lady will not be captured!” (Susan Randolph's account of Jefferson's wooing Rebecca Burwell; _Green Bag_, viii, 481.)

[487] Tradition says that George Was.h.i.+ngton met a like fate at the hands of Edward Ambler, Jacquelin's brother, who won Mary Cary from the young Virginia soldier. While this legend has been exploded, it serves to bring to light the personal attractiveness of the Amblers; for Miss Cary was very beautiful, heiress of a moderate fortune, and much sought after. It was Mary Cary's sister by whom Was.h.i.+ngton was captivated.

(Colonel Wilson Miles Cary, in Pecquet du Bellet, i, 24-25.)

[488] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 547. Of the letters which John Marshall wrote home while in the army, not one has been preserved.

[489] _Ib._

[490] _Ib._

[491] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 547.

[492] _Hist. Mag._, iii, 165. While this article is erroneous as to dates, it is otherwise accurate.

[493] _Ib._, 167.

[494] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 547.

[495] _Hist. Mag._, iii, 167.

[496] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 547.

[497] _Supra_, chap. II.

[498] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 547.

[499] ”Notes on Virginia”: Jefferson; _Works_: Ford, iv, 65.

[500] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _supra._ William and Mary was the first American inst.i.tution of learning to adopt the modern lecture system. (Tyler; _Williamsburg_, 153.) The lecture method was inaugurated Dec. 29, 1779 (_ib._, 174-75), only four months before Marshall entered.

[501] John Brown to Wm. Preston, Feb. 15, 1780; _W. and M. C. Q._, ix, 76.

[502] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; MS.

[503] See _infra._

[504] The Reverend James Madison, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics; James McClung, Professor of Anatomy and Medicine; Charles Bellini, Professor of Modern Languages; George Wythe, Professor of Law; and Robert Andrews, Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy.

(_History of William and Mary College_, Baltimore, 1870, 70-71.) There was also a fencing school. (John Brown to Wm. Preston, Feb. 15, 1780; _W. and M. C. Q._, ix, 76.)

[505] _History of William and Mary College_, Baltimore, 1870, 45.

”Thirty Students and three professors joined the army at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.” (_Ib._, 41.) Cornwallis occupied Williamsburg, June, 1781, and made the president's house his headquarters. (Tyler: _Williamsburg_, 168.)

[506] Fithian, 107.

[507] John Brown to Wm. Preston, Jan. 26, 1780; _W. and M. C. Q._, ix, 75. Seventeen years later the total cost to a student for a year at the college was one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy dollars.

(La Rochefoucauld, iii, 49-56.) The annual salary of the professors was four hundred dollars and that of the president was six hundred dollars.

[508] In Marshall's time the college laws provided that ”No liquors shall be furnished or used at [the college students'] table except beer, cider, toddy or spirits and water.” (_History of William and Mary College_ (Baltimore, 1870), 44; and see Fithian, Feb. 12, 1774, 106-07.)