[Illustration: One-half acre, part of the four-acre courthouse lot, laid off for the Clerk of the County and his successors. Record of Surveys, Section 2, p. 115, 1799.] NOTES FOR CHAPTER II [23] Fairfax County Court Order Book, 1789-1791, p. 93. [24] _Ibid._, pp. 189-191. [25] Fairfax County Deed Book B-2, pp. 373-377. [26] _Columbia Mirror & Alexandria Advertiser_, June 19, 1798. John Bogue had arrived in the United States with his family in 1795. On June 20, 1795, the _Alexandria Gazette_ published his signed statement thanking the captain of the ship "Two Sisters" for a good voyage. In the August 1, 1795 issue of the _Gazette_, he advertised as a joiner and cabinet maker on Princess Street near Hepburn's Wharf, "hoping to succeed as his abilities shall preserve him deserving." [27] Fairfax County Deed Book, B-2, p. 503. [28] Fairfax County Record of Surveys, 1742-1850, p. 115. [29] Fairfax County Deed Book, B-2, p. 503. [30] Interview with former Clerk of Courts, Thomas Chapman of Fairfax, Virginia, February 13, 1970. [31] One of the items to come before the court at this session involved winding up the county's contract with John Bogue and Mungo Dykes. The Court's Clerk, Robert Moss, was summoned to appear and show cause why he had not paid the contractors in conformance with the commissioners' report accepting the buildings. Moss produced a receipt for this payment, signed by Mr. Bogue's agent, who apparently had not passed it along to his principal. Fairfax County Court Order Book, 1799-1800, p. 509. [32] Powell, _Old Alexandria_, p. 38. [33] Elizabeth Burke, "Our Heritage: A History of Fairfax County", _Yearbook of the Historical Society of Fairfax County_, 1956-7, 5:4. [34] _Ibid._, 32. [35] Fairfax County Deed Book, M-2, p. 56. [36] Rust, _Town of Fairfax_, p. 3. [37] Gerard Bolling was the father-in-law of Richard Ratcliffe who had provided the four-acre tract on which the courthouse had been built. Rust, _Fairfax_, p. 31. [38] _Ibid._ [39] Joseph Martin, _Gazetteer of Virginia and the District of Columbia_, (Charlottesville, 1835), p. 168. The name "Providence" apparently was less favored than the traditional Virginia style of referring to the seat of county government. [40] Rust, _Fairfax_, p. 37. [41] Martin, _Gazetteer_, pp. 168-169. [42] Marshall Andrews, "A History of Railroads in Fairfax County", _Yearbook of the Historical Society of Fairfax County_, III (1954), 30-31. CHAPTER III THE COUNTY COURT AND ITS OFFICERS _The functions and officers of the colonial court_ In colonial Virginia local government was centered in the County Court. Its origins as a political and social institution have been attributed to various prototypes in Tudor and earlier English history. By the time Fairfax County was established in 1742, this institution and its functions in colonial Virginia had been clearly formulated and accepted.[43]