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[528] Horses were very scarce in Virginia at this time. It was almost impossible to get them even for military service.

[529] _Southern Literary Messenger_ (quoting from a statement by Marshall), ii, 183.

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

[531] _Ib._, 548. A story handed down through generations of lawyers confirms Mrs. Carrington. ”I would have had my wife if I had had to climb Alleghanys of skulls and swim Atlantics of blood” the legend makes Marshall say in one of his convivial outbursts. (The late Senator Joseph E. McDonald to the author.)

[532] ”The Palace” was a public building ”not handsome without but ...

s.p.a.cious and commodious within and prettily situated.” (”Notes on Virginia”: Jefferson; _Works_: Ford, iv, 69.)

[533] Richard Anderson, the father of the defender of Fort Sumter.

(Terhune: _Colonial Homesteads_, 97.)

[534] A country place of Edward Ambler's family in Hanover County. (See Pecquet du Bellet, i, 35.) Edward Ambler was now dead. His wife lived at ”The Cottage” from the outbreak of the war until her death in 1781.

(_Ib._, 26; and Mrs. Carrington to Mrs. Dudley, Oct. 10, 1796; MS.)

[535] Marshall to his wife, Feb. 23, 1826; MS.

[536] Most of the courts were closed because of the British invasion.

(Flanders, ii, 301.)

[537] _Infra_, chap. VI.

[538] _Autobiography._

[539] Betsy Ambler to Mildred Smith, 1780; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 537.

[540] Betsy Ambler to Mildred Smith, 1780; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 537.

[541] Jefferson to Short, Dec. 14, 1788; _Works_: Ford, vi, 24. Twelve years after Marshall's marriage, there were but seven hundred houses in Richmond. (Weld, i, 188.)

[542] Pecquet du Bellet, i, 35-37. He was very rich. (See inventory of John Ambler's holdings, _ib._) This opulent John Ambler married John Marshall's sister Lucy in 1792 (_ib._, 40-41); a circ.u.mstance of some interest when we come to trace Marshall's views as influenced by his connections and sympathies.

[543] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 548.

[544] She was born March 18, 1766, and married January 3, 1783. (Paxton, 37.) Marshall's mother was married at the same age.

[545] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; _Atlantic Monthly_, lx.x.xiv, 548.

[546] Thomas Marshall's will shows that he owned, when he died, several years later, an immense quant.i.ty of land.

[547] _Supra_, chap. II.

[548] Fauquier County t.i.thable Book, 1783-84; MS., Va. St. Lib.

[549] _Ib._

[550] See _infra._

[551] Was.h.i.+ngton to Lund Was.h.i.+ngton, Aug. 15, 1778; _Writings_: Ford, vii, 151-52.