To the attendants of the ma.n.u.script division, the map room and the rare book room of the Library of Congress.

To the attendants of the Virginia state archives in Richmond, for a.s.sistance in uncovering Alexandria records.

To the ladies at the Alexandria library.

To Miss S. Frances Leary, for the Michael Swope family notes.

To the late Mr. Charles Callahan, and to Mrs. Callahan, for permission to quote from Mr. Callahan's works and for many inspirational talks with Mr. Callahan.

To Captain George H. Evans for old photographs.

To Mrs. Arthur Herbert, for photographs of Herbert furniture from the Carlyle house.

To Mr. Courtland Davis, for generous aid and valuable Alexandria records and the use of his personal ma.n.u.scripts and to Mr. Davis and the Reverend Doctor William B. McIllwayne, for access to the old Presbyterian meetinghouse session books.

To Miss Cora Duffy, for the records of the Sun Fire Company.

To Mrs. Margaret Gill Davis, for use of an old customs house journal.

To the late Mr. Ward Brown, for loan of architectural doc.u.ments.

To Messrs. I.D. Matthews and Milton Grigg, for floor plans.

To Mrs. Howard Tolley, for the photograph of Dr. Brown and his obituary.

To Mr. Gardner L. Boothe and the vestry of Christ Church, for permission to photograph the church.

To Mrs. Helen Lawrason Kirkpatrick, Miss Margaret Lawrason and Mrs.

Edward Butler, for a wonderful day at the Lawrason plantation, Greenwood, in Louisiana, and the photographs of the Lawrason portraits.

To the Misses Carne, for the loan and use of valuable Alexandria doc.u.ments.

To Miss Belle da Costa Green, of the Pierpont Morgan Library, for use of an important Martha Washington letter.

To Dr. St. George L. Sioussat, chief of the division of ma.n.u.scripts of the Library of Congress.

To Mr. Allen L. Reese, for exciting finds among the Washington papers in that library.

To Mrs. Andrew Pickens, for notes on the Fowle family.

To Mr. Louis de Cazenove, for information on the Cazenove family.

To the late Mr. Cazenove Lee, for the story of General Robert E. Lee and the Edmund I. Lee house.

To Mr. W.B. McGroarty, for the letters and biographical information on Dr. d.i.c.k and permission to quote from his works.

To the Corcoran Gallery of Art for photographs of St. Memin's Alexandrians.

To Mr. John O. Brostrup, Mr. Thomas Neil Darling, Mr. Lewis P. Woltz, and others, for the use of photographs.

And last but not least, to Lena Harris, my old and faithful maid, who made it all possible.

Chapter References

PART ONE: PROLOGUE

_An Account of the First Century of the Seaport of Alexandria._

[Footnote 1: Caton, _Jottings from the Annals of Alexandria_, 3-4; and Powell, _The History of Old Alexandria, Virginia_, 25.]

[Footnote 2: Hening, _Statutes at Large_, IV, 268.]

[Footnote 3: _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia_, Session 1727-34, 1736-40, 204.]

[Footnote 4: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 5: _Ibid._, Session 1742-47, 1748-49, 30.]

[Footnote 6: Fairfax County was formed from Prince William in 1742 (_Journals of the House of Burgesses, Virginia_, 1742-47, 70; and Hening, V, 207-8) after numerous pet.i.tions to this effect had been presented to the Burgesses, beginning as early as 1732 (_Ibid._, 1727-34, 1738-40, 146), with a request to divide the county into two parishes.]

[Footnote 7: _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia_, 1748-49, 1742-47, 265.]

[Footnote 8: _Ibid._, 375.]

[Footnote 9: _Ibid._, 404-5.]

[Footnote 10: Hening, _Statutes at Large_, VI, 214; and Caton's _Jottings_, 6-8.]

[Footnote 11: Caton's _Jottings_.]

[Footnote 12: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 13: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 14: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 15: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 16: In 1748 George Washington made a survey of the site of Belle Haven, and the following year, 1749, a plan of the town, doubtless for his brother, Lawrence, who purchased lots. Now with the Washington papers in the Library of Congress.]

[Footnote 17: _Minutes of the Trustees of Alexandria_, 1749-1767.]