Chapter V NotesSalona and the DuVals

[100]Interview with John D. K. Smoot, Arlington, Virginia, January 18, 1979, by Nan Netherton.

[101]Fairfax County, Virginia, Real and Personal Property Tax Assessments, 1854-1900. Virginia State Library, Archives Division.

[102]John Smoot interview, January 18, 1979.

[103]Fairfax County, Virginia, Personal Property Tax Book, 1860. Virginia State Library.

[104]Letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin Cooling, U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, to Mrs. Ross D. Netherton, Fairfax, Virginia, December 5, 1978. Working papers for Salona, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Central Library.

[105]Evan Morrison Woodward,Our Campaign(Philadelphia: J. E. Potter Co., 1865); McLeanProvidence Journal, February 11, 1977. Although a number of accounts place Julia Ward Howe, wife of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, in the vicinity when she received the inspiration to write the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic",the account of Mr. A. J. Bloor, assistant secretary of the U. S. Sanitary Commission gives a different version. He and Dr. Howe met Mrs. Howe and her party at Upton's Hill, near Seven Corners, where they observed preparations for General George McClellan's grand review of 70,000 troops. Her poem followed, written that night at the Willard Hotel in Washington. Florence Howe Hall,The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic(Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, reprint 1971), p. 62.

[106]Original memorandum in possession of Susan and Clive DuVal, II, Salona.

[107]Interviews with Smoot family members by the author; Fairfax County Ordinance of Secession, Lewinsville Precinct, #18, May 23, 1861. Fairfax County Courthouse, and copy, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Central Library.

[108]Interview with John D. K. Smoot, January 18, 1979; personal property tax assessments, 1868, 1869, Virginia State Library.

[109]Ibid.

[110]Personal Property Tax Book, 1881. Virginia State Library.

[111]Interviews with members of the Smoot family by the author.

[112]Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning,Fairfax County in Virginia: Selections from Some Rare Sources(Fairfax, Va.: Office of Comprehensive Planning, 1974), pp. 126-127.

[113]Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 635, p. 471; interviews with the Smoot family by the author.

[114]"The Rambler,"The Sunday Star, August 2, 1914.

[115]Washington Star, May 20, 1932.

[116]Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 635, p. 471.

[117]Interviews with Smoot family members by the author.

[118]Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 1041, p. 123; 1097, p. 32; 1322, p. 453.

[119]Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 635,p. 471; interviews with Susan and Clive DuVal by the author.

[120]SeeChapters IIandIV; interviews with Clive and Susan DuVal by the author.

[121]Nan Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin and Patrick Reed,Fairfax County, Virginia: A History(Fairfax, Va.: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1978), p. 546.

[122]Netherton, et al.,Fairfax County, p. 659; interview with Clive and Susan DuVal, January 11, 1979, by Nan Netherton; DuVal family scrapbooks, Volumes I-VII, 1944-1978, Salona.

[123]McLeanProvidence Journal, April 29, 1960;Washington Post, April 23, 1961; Fairfax CountySun-Echo, January 15, 1965;Washington Star, March 18, 1965; Fairfax CountyFree Press Newspapers, September 29, 1966;Globe, May 14, 1970; Semi-Annual meeting program, November 14, 1976; DuVal family scrapbooks, 1961 and 1963, Salona.

[124]Virginia General Assembly,Register of the General Assembly from 1619-1976(Richmond, Va.: Virginia General Assembly, 1978).

[125]Commonwealth of Virginia,Manual of the Senate and House of Delegates(Richmond, Va.: Department of Purchasing and Supply, 1978).

[126]Program, National Wildlife Federation award ceremony, March 7, 1970, DuVal family scrapbook, Salona.

[127]Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 3418, p. 686.

[128]Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 4159, p. 436.

[129]National Park Service and Fairfax County Park Authority.

[130]Stated in Works Projects Administration, Writers' Program,Virginia, a Guide to the Old Dominion(Oxford University Press, New York, 1941), p. 525.

[131]Interviews between the author, Jane Wilson Smoot and William Smoot;Alexandria Gazette, November 11, 1811.

[132]Interview with Clive and Susan DuVal. January 5, 1979.

[133]Virginia Mutual Assurance Society records, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

[134]Fairfax County, Virginia, Will Book Q-1, p. 241. Also see appendix.

[135]Interviews with the DuVals and the Smoots.

[136]Interview with Clive and Susan DuVal, January 5, 1979, by Nan Netherton, at Salona.

[137]Deed of Easement, Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 3418, p. 686, March 24, 1971.

[138]Amending Deed of Easement, Fairfax County, Virginia, Deed Book 4159, p. 436, November 20, 1974.

[139]Virginia State Landmarks Register, Landmarks Commission, Richmond, Virginia.

[140]National Register of Historic Places, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Inventory and Appraisement of the personal Estateof Wm.Maffitt decd.to wit

Appraisement of Dower Negroes belonging toWilliam Maffitt's Estate

In obedience to an order of the County Court of Fairfax hereto annexed and the appraisers therein named have inventoried and appraised all and Singular the goods & chattles of William Maffitt decd.that were presented to our view by the admr as herein before Stated Given under our hands decr.1828

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