12 Jack P. Greene, ed., Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall (2 vols., Charlottesville, 1965), 250, 310, 315, 713, 763, 1004, 1102; this relationship is discussed at greater length in Fischer, Growing Old in America, 73-76.

13 Fithian to John Peck, 12 Aug. 1774, Journal and Letters, 212.

14 Wright and Tinling, eds., Secret Diary of William Byrd, (24 Jan. 1710).

15 Fischer, Growing Old in America.