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[595] Drs. McClurg, Foushee, and Mackie.

[596] This book was purchased for his wife, who was extremely religious.

The volume is in the possession of Judge J. K. M. Norton, Alexandria, Virginia. On the fly-leaf appears, ”Mrs. Mary W. Marshall,” in Marshall's handwriting. The book was also useful to Marshall for his own study of rhetoric, since Blair's sermons stood very high, at this time, as examples of style.

[597] Christian, 29, 30.

[598] This unbusinesslike balancing is characteristic of Marshall.

[599] Jacquelin Ambler Marshall, Dec. 3, 1787. (Paxton, 99.)

[600] _Ib._

[601] Call, i, 42.

[602] Records of the Court of Appeals.

[603] The estate had been sequestered during the Revolution.

[604] Wertenbaker: _V. U. S._, 123-26. For history of these grants, see chap. IV, vol. II, of this work.

[605] See _infra_, chap. VI.

[606] Call, iv, 69-72.

[607] _Infra_, vol. II, chap. IV.

[608] Records Fauquier County (Va.), Deed Book, X, 29.

[609] See _supra._

[610] See _supra_, 166, footnote 3.

[611] Mrs. Carrington.

[612] Mrs. Carrington to her sister Nancy; MS. The mother and sister of Mrs. Marshall were similarly afflicted. Mrs. Carrington frequently mentions this fact in her correspondence.

[613] See vol. III of this work.

CHAPTER VI

IN THE LEGISLATURE AND COUNCIL OF STATE

The proceedings of the a.s.sembly are, as usual, rapidly degenerating with the progress of the session. (Madison.)

Our a.s.sembly has been employed chiefly in rectifying the mistakes of the last and committing new ones for emendation at the next.

(Was.h.i.+ngton.)

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