9The Diary of London Carter, I, 19; Peyton Randolph, A Letter to a Gentleman in London, from Virginia (Williamsburg, 1759); both quoted in Breen, Tobacco Culture, 86, a work to which I am much indebted in this section.
10 Chinard, ed., A Huguenot in Exile in Virginia, 110.
11 Bruce, John Randolph, II, 205.
12 Even the most cynical scholars have felt the force of their character. An example was Rupert Hughes, who intended to write a “debunking” biography of George Washington, and before he was finished, had become an enthusiastic admirer.
13 Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia, 287.
14 Bruce, Social Life of Virginia, 31.
15 Bruce, Institutional History of Virginia, I, ch. V.