Walter Macomber, interview on July 16, 1968, at Green Spring Farm. In the opinion of Mr. Macomber of Washington, D.C., who planned and supervised the 1942 renovation of the mansion house, the original part of the house was built between 1750 and 1775. [2] _The Journal of John Littlejohn_, MS., Louisville, Kentucky, April 29, 1778. [3] Elmer T. Clark, J. Manning Potts, and Jacob S. Payton (eds.), _The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury_ (Nashville: Abington Press, 1958), I, p. 531. [4] Fairfax County Deed Book R-1, p. 413, contains a deed in 1789 from William and Mary Bushby to John Moss, William Adams, William Waters, Samuel Adams, James Morrison, William Rhodes, and William Hickman, and their survivors, in trust, conveying a lot in the town of Alexandria, northward from the Presbyterian meeting house, westward parallel with Duke Street, southward parallel with Fairfax Street, and eastward parallel with Duke Street to Chapple Alley "to build and forever keep in good repair a house for the worship of God for the use of the Reverend Thomas Cooke and the Reverend Francis Asbury for the time being of the Methodist Episcopal Church...." [5] Fairfax County Will Book I, p. 150. [6] Fairfax County Deed Book AA-2, p. 29, a lease for three lives to John Moss, dated May 29, 1798. [7] Fairfax County Deed Book R-1, p. 397. [8] Mrs. Don C. Ritchie, letter dated October 17, 1969. [9] _Ibid._ [10] William W. Hening (ed.), [Virginia] _Statutes at Large_, 1823, reprint edition (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969), VII, p. 32. [11] Albert Porter, _County Government in Virginia_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1947), p. 186. [12] Fairfax County Court Minute Book, March 23, 1786, p. 191. Subsequently John Moss was reappointed Commissioner of the Land Tax in 1787, 1792, and 1793. [13] Hening, _Statutes_, XII, p. 243. [14] Fairfax County Court Order Book, 1787 (February 20 and October 15, 1787): "John Moss, Gent., Commissioner for Fairfax district produced on oath an account against the Commonwealth for his service in that capacity amounting to Twenty-five pounds thirteen shillings and six pence, which being examined by the court is allowed and ordered to be certified." [15] Shepherd, _Code_, I, p. 114. [16] Porter, _County Government_, p. 211. [17] Shepherd, _Code_, III, p. 262. [18] Fairfax County Deed Book Y-1, p. 69. [19] Shepherd, _Code_, I, p. 11. [20] F. Johnston, _Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks_ (Lynchburg: J. P. Bell, 1880), p. 172.