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mitted by the different legislatures, and that wherever you had given your opinion the event had proved you were right, then enumerated a number of instances to prove his assertion. Mr. Mason concluded by saying that he was convinced from the whole of his conversation with Lee, Harrison, and other members of Congress, that a faction in Congress against you had never existed. Our conversation passed in Alexandria before several gentlemen, among whom was Major Jennifer of Maryland."

ARMS OF MASON, FOWKE, AND THOMSON (OR THOMPSON)

FAMILIES.

Masons of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire: Az. a point with three embattlements arg. charged with fleur-de-lis gu., on the middle battlement a dove with wings displayed standing thereon, proper. Crest-a talbot pass. regardant ar. eared sa. holding in his mouth a hart's horn or. Motto-Pro Patria Semper. (This was altered by George Mason of Gunston, after the Revolution to Pro Republica Semper.)

Fowkes of Gunston, Staffordshire: Vert., a fleur-de-lis ar., on a chief indented of the second a lion pass, gu. with a crescent difference sa. Crest-an Indian goat's head erased ar. MottoOptimum Est Alienâ Frui Insaniâ.

Thompsons of Yorkshire: Per fesse ar. and sa. a fess counterembattled betw. three falcons counterchanged, belled and jessed or. Crest-an arm embowed in armour, quarterly, or. and az. the gauntlet ppr. holding the truncheon of a broken lance of the first.

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INDEX.

A

Aberdeen, Scotland, ii., 17
Accohick, Accokeek, Aquaceek, plan-
tation of, i., 2, 16, 20, 22
Accotink Run. See Creeks.
Accotink turnpike, i., 112
Acoquane. See Occoquon.
Adam, Robert, i., 427
Adams, George, ii., 462; John, i.,
180, 224, 257, 258, ii., 33, 39, 184,
237, 374, 377; John Quincy, i., vi.;
Samuel, i., 168, 171, 180, 258, 336,
ii., 217, 218, 283, 377; Thomas, i.,
295
Adams' "Defence of the American
Constitutions," ii., 237; "Thoughts

on Government," i., 224, 257, 258
Adventurers for Virginia, i., 4, 156,
396-398, 401
Africa, i., 153

African, company,

see Companies;

merchants, ii., 419; slavery, slave-
trade, see Slaves.
Aix-la-Chapelle, peace of, i., 414
Alaska, ii., 289

Albany, N. Y., i., xiv., 36

Albemarle County, Va., i., 173, 176,
314

Albemarle, George, Duke of, i., 408
Albemarle Resolutions, i., 173, 174
Aldborough, England, i., 3

Alexander family, i., 92, 93; MSS. of,
i., 38, 118.

Alexander, Charles, i., 118, 427;

Gustavus B., i., 92; John, i., 93,
125, 392, ii., 39; Mr., i., 63, 87,
90, ii., 301, 337; Philip, i., 77, 93,
427; Philip of Chotank, ii., 36-39,
57
Alexandria, Va., i., xi.-xiv., 61, 63,
64, 75-77, 85, 87, 90, 93, 103, 112,
115, 120, 128, 154, 173, 177, 182,

185, 189, 191, 196, 198, 201, 217,
267, 269, 280, 281, 305, 315, 418,
ii., 5, 9, 10, 12, 63, 64, 67, 79, 81,
82, 84, 92, 96, 97, 180-182, 209-
211, 302, 310, 324, 335, 336, 348-
351, 357-360, 455, 456, 472, 475
Alexandria Museum, i., 169
Alexandrians, ii., 336

Algerines, ii., 63, 328

Alien and Sedition laws, i., viii., ii.,
417

Allerton, Maj. Isaac, i., 12, 15, 17, 19
Allison, William, ii., 47
Ambler, Jacqueline, ii., 338, 340;
Richard, i., 55, ii., 340

America, i., ix., xiii., 1, 53, 59, 78,
87, 96, 97, 123, 125, 126, 129, 130,
142, 150, 152, 157, 175, 177, 195,
210, 216, 231, 237, 249, 263, 271,
293, 294, 299, 301, 317, 330, 333.
341, 343, 352, 360, 364, 366, 384-
388, 390, 393-396, 398, 399, 411,
419, 421, 423, 426, 427, 432, 443,
ii., 3, 4, 14, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28, 34,
40, 45-47, 49, 51, 59, 69, 114, 121,
130, 134, 135, 178, 211, 217, 230,
259, 277, 296, 301, 306, 317, 324,
327, 334, 368, 384, 386, 398, 404,
409, 414, 420, 425, 433, 454, 474
American, admirers, i., 153, 319;
affairs, i., 319; army, i., 363, ii.,
34, 50; cause, i., 296, 297, ii., 4,
9, 16, 18; charters, i., 399; coast,
ii., 5; colonies, i., 175, 419, 421,
ii., 25, 344; commerce, i., 389, 390;
commissioners, ii., 48; Congress,
i., 298; consignments, ii., 335;
consul, i., 368; consul-general, ii.,
305; council, ii., 29; discipline, i.,
150; doctrines, i., 178; dominions,
i., 154, 421; executive, ii., III;
forces, ii., 19; freedom, i., 138;
gallons, ii., 314; government, i.,

133, ii., 288, 397, 404; grievances,
i., 424, 425; imports, i., 142; in-
dependence, i., 361, 362, 364; in-
terest, i., 365; liberties, ii., 228;
liberty, ii., 29, 30, 42, 44, 50, 52;
manners, ii., 154; manufactures, ii.,
173, 212; manufacturers, i., 149;
merchant, i., 385; mind, ii., 404;
minister, ii., 301; morals, ii., 154;
patriot, ii., 365; patriots, i., 152,
ii., 237; people, fi., 427; political
philosopher, ii., 288; political sys-
tem, ii., 296; politics, ii., 302, 303;
principle, i., 262; produce, ii., 300;
prospects, i., 293, 300; revenue
acts, i., 142, 149; rivers, ii., 449,
452; seas, ii., 449, 452; soil, ii.,
154; State, i., 265; States, i., 267,
363, ii., 2, 3, 47, 393, 452; states-
men, ii., 220; subjects, i., 389;
system, ii., 236; theatre, i., 212;
trade, i., 194, ii., 299; union, i.,
298, 364, ii., 282, 331, 387, 445;
vessels, ii., 63

"American Archives," i., 171, 175,
177, 179, 182, 183, 204, 214, 219, 268
American Historical Association, ii.,
282

Americans, i., 147, 150, 194, 293, ii.,
33, 223, 308

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Annapolis Convention, ii., 93-95
Annapolis, Md., i., 126, 131, 242, ii.,
65, 66, 68, 99, 214, 356
Anthony, Elizabeth, née Hill, ii., 302;
John, ii., 302; Joseph, ii., 354
Antifederalists, ii., 183, 184, 211, 223,
224, 227, 233, 242, 244, 248, 264,
271-273, 281, 284, 286, 287, 289,
296, 297, 308, 309, 362, 374
Apollo Room, Raleigh Tavern, i., 124
Appleton's "Cyclopedia of American
Biography," i., xv.

Appomattox River.

See Rivers.

Aquia, i., 222, 375, ii., 348, 359

Aquia Church. See Overwharton
parish churches.
Aquia Creek. See Creeks.

Arnold, Benedict, i., 326, ii., 15, 16,
76, 343; John, i., 41
Ashton, John, i., 41

Assemblies of the States, i., 301, 439
Assumption Act, ii., 329-331
Atlantic, brethren, ii., 136; interests,
ii., 135; States, ii., 137

Atlantic Ocean, i., 364, 384, 396, 412,
ii., 47

Atterbury, Right Rev. Francis, i., 151
Augusta County, Va., i., 67, 326, 412,
413, ii., 24, 343
Augusta, Ga., i., xiv.

Augusta Springs, Va., i., 315, ii., 339
Augustine, Florida, i., 294
Austin, James, i., 9
Awbrey, Francis, i., 55
Aylett, Col. William, i., 304

B

Bacon, Gen. Nathaniel, i., 13-15
Bacon's Rebellion, i., 9, 10, 349, ii.,
159

Baker, Jerman, i., 339

Ball, George, i., 392; Winifred, née
Williams, ii., 463

Ball's patent, ii., 463, 464
Ballendine, John, i., 329. 335
Baltimore, Md., i., xii., xiii., 146, 188,
278, 280, 356, ii., 99, 103, 310,
329, 334, 352, 365
Baltimore libraries. See Md. Hist.,
Peabody.

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Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert.
Bancroft, George, i., 157, 235, 256,
263, 264, ii., 68, 96, 126, 127, 378
Bancroft's "History of the Constitu-
tion," i., 319, ii., 54, 66, 91, 95,
96, 102, 126, 131, 188, 209, 210;
History of the United States," i.,
257, 263, ii., 378
Bannister, Col. John, i., 283, 284
Baptism of Indian child, i., II
Barbadoes. See Mason's Island.
Barclay, Thomas, ii., 305
Barclay's Plot, i., 19

Barney, Capt. Joshua, ii., 40-42
Barré, Isaac, i., 153

Barron, Capt. James, i., 230, 233;
Capt. Richard, i., 230
Barton, Thomas, i., 25

Bassett, Miss, see Washington;
Richard, ii., 304

Bath, England, i., 47, 54

Baxter, James, i., 49

Bayard, Hon. Thomas F., i., xii.

Bayley, Mr., ii., 349

Beckley, John, ii., 83, 85

Belhaven. See Alexandria.
Bellomont, Earl of, i., 43

Benjamin, Walter R., i., xiv.

Benton, Thomas H., ii., 285; speech
in U. S. Senate, ii., 285
Berlin, Md., i., xiv.

INDEX.

Berkeley County, Va., i., 154, ii., 412
Berkeley, Frances, Lady, née Cul-

pepper (m. Ist Samuel Stephens, m.
3d Philip Ludwell), i., 193; John,
Lord, i., 408; Norborne, Baron de
Botetourt, i., 132-134, 136, 137,
153, ii., 24; Sir William, i., 6, 13-
15, 193

Berkeley Springs, i., 315
Bermondsey, England, i., 42
Bermuda Hundred, Va., ii., 337
Bermudas, Somers Islands, i., 402
Bethel, Slingsby, i., 41
Beverley family, Va., i., 90
Beverley, Robert, i., 30

Bibliography, George Mason, i., xv.
Birch's Sons, Thomas, i., xiv.

Blackburn, Edward, i., 200; Col.
Thomas, i., 93, 104, 206, 293, ii.,
74

Blacket, Sir William, i., 47

Bladen, Mrs., née Loftus, ii., 467;
William, ii., 355, 356

Bladensburg, Md., i., 138, ii., 336, 340
Blair Educational Bill, ii., 288
Blair, Rev. James, i., 32; President

John, i., 69, 70, 122, 136; Judge
John, i., 228, 234, 289, 392, ii., 97,
160, 171, 172, 373

Bland, Richard, i., 124, 129, 137, 179,
199, 202, 204-206, 228, 234, 392,
ii., 373; Theodoric, i., 20; Col.
Theodoric, Jr., i., 284, 368, ii.,
191, 242, 243. 309, 337, 339; The-
odoric, of Maryland, i., xv., 246
Bland's "Inquiry into the Rights of
the British Colonies," i., 129
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, ii., 293
Bledsoe's "Is Davis a Traitor?" ii.,
293

Bogge's (Boggess, Henry?), i., 68, 70
Bond, Capt., ii., 318

Bordeaux, France, ii., 97, 211, 212,

299, 302, 304, 305, 307, 308, 316,
318, 327, 328, 331, 334, 336, 350,
352, 357

Boston, Mass., i., xii., xiv., 131, 167,

168, 170, 171, 178, 180, 194, 216,
217, 422, 426, ii., 175, 183, 307,
327, 353, 400

Boston Port Bill, i., 168, 169, 173,
175, 178

Bostonians, i., 179

Botetourt County, Va., ii., 24, 25
Botetourt, Lord. See Berkeley.
Boundary lines, between Virginia and
Maryland, i., 261, 407; between
Virginia and North Carolina, i.,

479

261, 310, 407, 408, 414; between
Virginia and Pennsylvania, i., 261,
270, 271, 308, 407 (Mason and
Dixon's line), 360, 361, 363
Bourbon County, Ky., ii., 309
Bowling Green, Va., ii., 181
Bowman, John, i., 35

Boyd Hole, i., 87, 90

Braddock, Gen. Edward, i., 60-63,.

134

Braddock House (Cary House), i., 61
Braddock's Road, i., 60

Brandywine, battle of, i., 285
Braxton, Carter, i., 199, 205, 334,
336, 392

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Brent, Anne, née Carroll, ii., 316;
Eleanor, née Carroll, ii., 316;
Daniel of Richland," ii., 316;
Daniel Carroll, i., 88, 89; Capt.
George of "Woodstock," i., 10-12,
17, 20, 349; George (4th) of "Wood-
stock," i., 349; George (5th) of
Woodstock," i., 350; George, ii.,
463, 464; Capt. Giles, i., 5-7;
John, ii., 337, 357, 358; Madame,
i., 373; Nicholas, i., 153; Richard,
ii., 316; Robert of " Woodstock,'
i., 222, 350; Sarah, Mrs. George
Mason, see Mason; William, of
"Richland," i., 87, 125, 213, 222,
316

Brent family, i., 54; MS. Book of,
i., 350

Brenttown, Brentsville, i., 21, 48
Brewood Church, Eng., i., 3
Brewood, England, parish of, i., 2;
town of, i., 2

British, the, i., 216, 278, 285, 311,
337, 351, ii., 72

British, ancestors, i., 249; aristocracy,
i., 177; army, i., 296; channels,
ii., 3; citizens, ii., 70; colonies, i.,
181, 425, ii., 30, 40; commissioners,
i., 293; constitution, i., 150, 174,
182, 388, 405, ii., 70, 124, 170,
408; councils, i., 294, 301; credi-
tor, ii., 58, 261, 352; creditors, ii.,
46, 198, 437; crown, i., 407, 410,
413, 419, 421; debts, ii., 45, 46,
52, 53, 58, 62, 72, 194, 197, 205,
206, 244, 272, 352, 437; dominions,
i., 382, 412, ii., 28; empire, i., 420,
ii., 431; executive, ii., III; fleet, i.,
285; forces, i., 320, 362; freeman,
i., 428; garrison, i., 365; gentry,
i., 366; goods, i., 149; govern-
ment, i., 78, 150, 308, 413, ii., 24,
30, 46, 111, 124, 160, 399, 408;

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