The Fairfax County Courthouse - Part 12
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Macomber: I created it according to patterns used in colonial times. The benches were brought in after the Civil War and had come from the Payne [Jerusalem] Baptist Church. I thought it appropriate to use them.

[171] _Fairfax County Free Press_, August 25, 1966; The bas.e.m.e.nt measured 11 25-1/2 feet and was located across the midsection of the building. At the north end of the bas.e.m.e.nt a stairway led to an outside entrance, and at the south end another stairway provided interior access. The bas.e.m.e.nt was lined with 8-inch thick brick walls, and was divided into two rooms of approximately equal size connected by a doorway 2-1/2 feet wide.

[172] Prior to the reconstruction of the courthouse in 1967, the shutters at the windows on the first floor of the front of the building were louvred in the top half and solid panel in the lower half. In the reconstruction, these shutters were replaced using shutters with solid panels.

APPENDIX A

FAIRFAX COUNTY CLERKS OF THE COURT

1742-1976

Sources: Frederick Johnston, _Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks_; Fairfax County Court Order Books.

Catesby c.o.c.ke 1742-46 John Graham 1746-52 Peter Wagener 1752-72 Peter Wagener, Jr. 1772-98 George Deneale 1798-1801 William Moss 1801-33 F. D. Richardson, _pro tem_ 1833-35 Thomas Moss 1835-39 Alfred Moss, _pro tem_ Oct.-Nov., 1839 S. M. Ball 1839-52 Alfred Moss 1852-61 Henry T. Brooks (military) 1861-65 W. B. Gooding (military) 1865-66 William M. Fitzhugh (military) 1866-67 F. D. Richardson, _pro tem_ 1866-69 D. F. Dulany (military) 1869-70 F. D. Richardson 1870-80 F. W. Richardson, _pro tem_ 1880-81 F. W. Richardson 1881-87 W. E. Graham 1887-1903 F. W. Richardson 1904-35 John M. Whalen 1936-45 Thomas P. Chapman, Jr. 1945-67 W. Franklin Gooding 1967-75 James E. Hoofnagle 1976-

APPENDIX B

JUSTICES AND JUDGES OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY, CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS

1742-1976

Lists Compiled By E. Sprouse, P. Howe, V. Peters, A. Lewis, and N.

Netherton.

(Because of missing books and records, this listing is incomplete.)

First Commission for Fairfax County, _1742_

William Fairfax John Colvill Richard Osborne Jeremiah Bronaugh Lewis Elzey William Payne Thomas Pearson John Minor William Henry Terrett John Gregg Gerard Alexander Edward Barry Daniel Jennings Thomas Arbuthnot

(_1742-1748_ Fairfax County Court Order Books are missing.)

_1749_

John Minor William H. Terrett Daniel Jennings John Carlyle William Ramsay Charles Broadwater Daniel McCarty John Colvill Moses Linton Lewis Ellzey William Payne Richard Osborn George W. Fairfax Anthony Russell Joseph Watkins George Mason Jeremiah Bronaugh Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax Chief Justice Stephen Lewis

_1750_

John West Lawrence Washington Catesby c.o.c.ke

_1752_

Fielding Turner

_1753_

Thomas Colvill

_1754_

Hugh West

_1755_

John West, Jr.

Sampson Turley Sampson Darrell James Hamilton Oneas Campbell

_1757_

Henry Gunnell

_1758_

John Hunter Robert Adam William Bronaugh William Payne, Jr.

_1759_

Bryan Fairfax Townshend Dade Benjamin Grayson Edward Blackburn Lee Ma.s.sey William Adams

_1762_

Hector Ross

_1764_

George William Fairfax William Ellzey John West George Mason Daniel McCarty John Carlyle William Ramsay Charles Broadwater Thomas Colvill dead John West, Junior Bryan Fairfax Sampson Dorrell Sher.

Townshend Dade Quo: Henry Gunnell