After Marshall’s marriage, in January, 1783, he made Richmond his home for the rest of his life. It was still a little town, but it had lately become the capital of the State, and the strongest men at the bar gradually gathered there. Marshall met them all. One has only to look at the law reports of Call and Washington to see the place that he won. He is found in most of the important cases. In his time no man’s name occurs oftener, probably none so often. The earliest case in which the printed reports show his name is that of Hite _v._ Fairfax (4 Call’s Reports, 42), in May, 1786, and his argument seems to be fully reported. It was a very important case, and Marshall represented tenants of Lord Fairfax. There were conflicting grants on the famous “Northern Neck” of Virginia, an extensive region given by the crown to Lord Fairfax’s ancestor, whose boundaries had been in dispute. It comprised the land between the Potomac and the Rappahannock, “within the heads of the rivers ... the courses of the said rivers, as they are commonly called or known by the inhabitants and descriptions of those parts, and Chesapeake Bay, together with the rivers themselves and all the islands within the banks of the rivers.” This description was finally admitted by the crown (in 1745) to include all the land between the head springs of the Potomac and those of the south branch of the Rappahannock. Bishop Meade[10] describes it as the region which, beginning on the Chesapeake Bay, lies between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, and crossing the Blue Ridge, or passing through it with the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry, extends with that river to the heads thereof in the Alleghany Mountains, and thence by a straight line crosses the North Mountain and Blue Ridge at the headwaters of the Rappahannock, ... “the most fertile part of Virginia.”