10 Patrick Henry to Thomas Madison, 21 Oct. 1787, NYPL; quoted in Robert Douthat Meade, Patrick Henry, Practical Revolutionary (Philadelphia, 1969), 334.

11 Tyler, Patrick Henry, 12.

12 William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Hartford, n.d.), 18.

13 J. Lewis Peyton, History of Augusta County, Virginia (2d ed., Bridgewater, Va., 1953), 345.

14 Hughes, North Country Life: The North East, 39.