7 Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling, eds., William Byrd of Virginia, The London Diary, 1717-1721, and Other Writings (New York, 1958, passim.
8 Personal communication by a lady of an old Prince George’s County family; for an actual case see VMHB 14 (1896-97), 185-97.
9 Edward M. Riley, ed., The Journal of John Harrower, (New York, 1963), 144.