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[552] Records of Fauquier County (Va.), Deed Book, vii, 533.

[553] _Supra_, chap. II.

[554] See _infra_, chap. VIII.

[555] Marshall to Monroe, Dec. 28, 1784; Monroe MSS., vii, 832; Lib.

Cong.

[556] Marshall, ii, 104.

[557] Marshall to Monroe, Dec. 12, 1783; Draper Collection, Wis. Hist.

Soc. Thomas Marshall first went to Kentucky in 1780 by special permission of the Governor of Virginia and while he was still Colonel of the State Artillery Regiment. (Humphrey Marshall, i, 104, 120.) During his absence his regiment apparently became somewhat demoralized. (Thomas Marshall to Colonel George Muter, Feb. 1781; MS. Archives, Va. St. Lib.

and partly printed in _Cal. Va. St. Prs._, i, 549.) Upon his return to Virginia, he was appointed Surveyor of a part of Kentucky, November 1, 1780. (Collins: _History of Kentucky_, i, 20.) The following year he was appointed on the commission ”to examine and settle the Public Accts in the Western Country” and expected to go to Kentucky before the close of the year, but did not, because his military certificates were not given him in time. (Thomas Marshall to Governor Harrison, March 17, 1781; _Cal. Va. St. Prs._, i, 578; and to Lieutenant-Governor Jameson, Oct.

14, 1781; _ib._, 549.) He opened his surveyor's office in Kentucky in November, 1782. (Butler: _History of Kentucky_, 138.) In 1783 he returned to Virginia to take his family to their new home, where he remained until his death in 1802. (Paxton, 19.) Thomas Marshall was immediately recognized as one of the leading men in this western Virginia district, and was elected to the Legislature and became ”Surveyor [Collector] of Revenue for the District of Ohio.” (See _infra_, chaps, III and V.)

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

[559] Mrs. Carrington to Mildred Smith, Jan. 10, 1786; MS.

[560] Mordecai, 45-47.

[561] _Ib._, 40.

[562] Mordecai, chap. ii.

[563] _Ib._, 51-52. This was more than twenty years after Marshall and his young wife started housekeeping in Richmond.

[564] _Ib._, 53.

[565] _Ib._

[566] Meade, i, 140; Schoepf, ii, 62.

[567] Mordecai, chap, xxi; Schoepf, ii, 63 _et seq._

[568] See _supra_, chaps. I and VII.

[569] Schoepf, ii, 64. Marshall frequented this place and belonged to a club which met there. (See entries from Marshall's Account Book, _infra._)

[570] _Supra_, chap. II.

[571] This invaluable Marshall source is not a law student's commonplace book alphabetically arranged, but merely a large volume of blank leaves.

It is six inches wide by eight in length and more than one in thickness.

The book also contains Marshall's accounts for twelve years after his marriage. All reference hereafter to his receipts and expenses are from this source.

[572] The notes are not only of lectures actually delivered by Wythe, but of Marshall's reading on topics a.s.signed for study. It is probable that many of these notes were made after Marshall left college.

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