Joseph Story: Origin and Settlement of Virginia

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833)by Joseph L. Story

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Origin And Settlement of Virginia§ 39.§ 40.§ 41.§ 42.§ 43.§ 44.§ 45.§ 46.§ 47.§ 48.§ 49.§ 50.§ 51. FOOTNOTES
   1. Robertson's Americn, B.9; Doug. Summ. 110, etc.
   2. 1 Haz. Coll. 24.
   3. Marshall's Colon. 15, 16; Robertson's America, B.9.
   4. 1 Haz. Coll. 33; Robertson's America, B.9.
   5. 1 Haz. Coll. 38-40; 2 Doug. Summ. 338.
   6. Marsh. Colon. 17; Robertson's Americn, B.9.
   7. Robertson's America.B.9.
   8. Marsh. Colon. 25; 1 Haz. Coll. 50; Robertson's America, B.9.
   9. 1 Haz. Coll. 99; Robertson's America, B.9.
   10. Robertson's America, B.9.
   11. 1 Haz. Coll. 50.
   12. 1 Haz. Coll. 50; Marsh. Colon. 25, 26; Robertson's Amer. B.9.
   13. 1 Haz. Coll. 50; Marsh. Colon. 26.
   14. Marsh. Colon. 27, 28.
   15. 1 Haz.Coll. 58, 72; Marsh. Colon. 44, 45, 47; Robertson's America, B.9.
   16. I quote the very words of Dr. Robertson throughout this passage for its spirit and general truth. Robert. Hist. of America, B.9.
   17. Robertson's America, B.9. Marsh. Colon. Ch. 2, p. 54.
   18. 1 Henning, Stat.III; Smith's Virg App. No.4,p. 32; I Chalm. Annals, 54.
   19. Roberton's America, B.9; Marsh. Colon. ch. 2, p. 56; 1 Haz. Coll. 131.
   20. In 1623. See 1 Haz. Coll. 155.
   21. Robertson's America, B.9; 1 Haz. Coll. 183; Marsh. Colon. ch. 2 P.60, 62; Chalmers's Annals.
   22. Robertson's America, B.9.
   23. 1 Haz. Coll. 189.
   24. Marsh. Colon. ch. 2, p.63, 64; 1 Haz. Coll. 189.
   25. 1 Haz. Coll. 220,225.
   26. It seems that a charter was subsequently granted by Charles the Second on the 10th of October, 1676,but it contained little more than an acknowledgment of the colony as an immediate dependency of the crown. 2 Henning Stat 531, 532.
   27. Robertson's America, B.9.; Marsh. Amer. Col. ch. 2, p. 65, 66, note. I have not thought it necessary to advert particularly to the state of things during the disturbed period of the commonwealth. Henning, Virg. Stat. Introduction, p. 13, 14.
   28. 2 Henning, Stat.43. Sir William Bardley, in his answer to the questions of the Lords commissioners in 1671. "Contrary to the laws of England we never did, nor dare to make any [law] only this, that no sale of land is good and legal, unless within three months after the conveyance it be recorded."
   29. I refer upon these subjects to Henning, Stat. 122, 123, 144, 149, 155, 180, 240, 268, 277, 434, 2 Hen. Stat. 48, 50; 3 Hen.Stat. 150, 170, 360, 441.
   30. 5 Henning, Stat. 456.
   31. 3 Henning, Stat. 320, 516; 4 Henning, Stat. 400; 5 Henning, Stat. 414; 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App.
   32. 1 Henning, Stat. 248; 2 Henning, Stat. 98; 3 Henning. Stat. 321.
   33. 1 Henning, Stat. 290.
   34. See I Hen. Stat. 126, and Index, tit. Tobacco, in that and the subsequent volumes; 2 Henning, Stat. 514.
   35. 2 Hen. Stat. 511, 512, 514, 517; 1 Chalm. Annals, 328; 3 Hutch. Collect. 496.
   36. Marsh. Colon. ch. 5, p. 163; 1 Chalm. Annals, 325.