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)
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.,
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,.
Braddock House (Cary House), i., 61 Braddock's Road, i., 60
Brandywine, battle of, i., 285 Braxton, Carter, i., 199, 205, 334, 336, 392
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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