[123] _Executive Journals of the Council_, op. cit. (footnote
66), vol. 5, p. 410.
[124] Ibid., p. 434.
[125] The Balthrop family lived in King George County;
Smith's ordinary has not been identified; "Vaulx's" probably
refers to the home of Robert Vaulx of Pope's Creek,
Westmoreland County. Vaulx was father-in-law of Lawrence
Washington and died in 1755.
[126] Philip Ludwell Lee, proprietor of "Stratford,"
Westmoreland County, 1751-1775, grandfather of General Robert
E. Lee. "Old Stratford and the Lees who Lived There,"
_Magazine of the Society of Lees of Virginia_ (Richmond, May
1925), vol. 3, no. 1, p. 15.
[127] Peter Hedgman was another Stafford County leader. He
was burgess from 1742 to 1755. "Members of the House of
Burgesses," _VHM_ (Richmond, 1901), vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 249.
[128] George Fisher visited Chiswell's ordinary: "On Monday
May the 12th 1755, at Day Break, about half an hour after
Four in the morning, I left Williamsburg to proceed to
Philadelphia.... About Eight o'clock, by a slow Pace, I
arrived at Chiswell's Ordinary. Two Planters in the Room, I
went into, were at Cards (all Fours) but on my arrival,
returned into an inner Room." "Narrative of George Fisher,"
_WMQ_ [1] (Richmond, 1909), vol. 17, pp. 164-165.