NOTES 325 



is w'th great Pleasure I acq't you that we have now 

 got another staple of late years, as it were created, 

 viz. : Wheat, w'ch will I believe in a little time be equal 

 if not superior to Tob'o is more certain & of w'ch we 

 shall in a few years make more in Virg'a than all the 

 Province of Pennsylvania put together, altho' it is 

 their staple commodity." 



P. 56 Robert Lawson, of Prince Edward County, 

 Colonel 4th Virginia, 1777, and Brigadier General, 

 Virginia line, 1781. Cf. Calendar of Virginia State 

 Papers, Vols. I and II. 



P. 61. The Virginia Gazette & Weekly Advertiser. 



There was a Virginia Gazette and Norfolk Intelli- 

 gencer as early as 1774, and there was a Virginia 

 Gazette and American Advertiser published at Rich- 

 mond in 1786, which was possibly the same as the 

 Weekly Advertiser. The old Virginia Gazette of 

 Williamsburg was merged with a Richmond paper 

 about 1799. The construction given the word ' Ga- 

 zette ' is seen also in the name of a paper published at 

 Baltimore about 1800 Federal Gazette and Baltimore 

 General Advertiser. 



P. 62 Jefferson's Notes on Virginia appeared at 

 Paris, 1784 (1st ed., dated 1782) ; 2nd edition, Paris, 

 1786; 1st English edition, London, 1787; 1st Ameri- 

 can, 1788 (Philadelphia, Pritchard and Hall). 



P. 63 See, Separation of Church and State in 

 Virginia. By H. J. Eckenrode, Archivist, pp. 155. 

 Va. State Library Report, 1910. 



P. 64 Formicola had come to Virginia with Lord 

 Dunmore, the last royal Governor ; he had formerly 



