University of Virginia Library

Acknowledgments

Many people encouraged and assisted me during the years that I worked on this project at
the University of Virginia. My greatest debt is to my graduate advisor, W. W. Abbot,
who directed this dissertation, and to the others on the graduate committee, Peter S. Onuf,
and D. Alan Williams, of the Corcoran Department of History, and Richard Guy Wilson
of the Architectural School. It has been a pleasure to know and work with these scholars,
and I thank each of them them for their interest and input, and for their genuine
professional courtesy.

I would also like to thank the following people and institutions:

Daniel P. Jordan, William L. Beiswanger, Bob Self, Lucia C. Stanton, and Ann M. Lucas,
all at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., where I was fortunate enough in
1988 and 1989 to work as an intern researching Jefferson's joinery on Mulberry Row at
Monticello.

K. Edward Lay, and the late Frederick Doveton Nichols and William B. O'Neal of the
University of Virginia Architectural School, and the descendants of General John
Hartwell Cocke, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Johnston of Upper Bremo, and Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Orf of Lower Bremo.

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean Robert J. Huskey and the Corcoran
Department of History supported me in attending the National Historic Records and
Publications Committee's Summer Institute for Historical Editing in 1990. The History
Department also provided funding by awarding several Dupont fellowships. Julie Kaplan
at the office of Financial Aid awarded greatly appreciated Book Fellowships. Jeffrey D.
Plank of University of Virginia Development not only encouraged and supported my
endeavors but read the documents and the historical narrative.

Staffs of the Alderman Library's Special Collections: Michael F. Plunkett, the late
William Runge, George E. Riser, Christina M. Deane, Gregory A. Johnson, Robin D.
Wear, Jeanne C. Pardee, Edward F. Gaynor, and Pauline Page of the photography
department; the Albemarle County Courthouse, the Stanton Courthouse, the Virginia
State Library, the Virginia Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia (John
Van Horne, Jim Green, Phil Lapsansky), the American Philosophical Society (Beth
Carroll-Horrocks), Pennsylvania Historical Society, the College of William and Mary
Library, the Wisconsin State Historical Society, Jay Gaynor and Max Headly of the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Inc., Jeffrey Cohen of the Papers of Benjamin Henry
Latrobe, and the entire staff of the Papers of George Washington, which steadfastly has
supported me the last half-dozen years.

The Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, where I had the privilege to
hold a graduate fellowship for the year 1995-1996: John Unsworth, Thornton Staples,
Susan E. Gants, Dina L. Bai, Oludotun Akinola, and Jerome McGann, Jason Haynes, and
Patricia M. Canney. At the University of Virginia's E-text Center, David Seaman,
especially, and his staff, have been instrumental in the evolution of this project since it
became an SGML database.

It would be remiss not to acknowledge those at Virginia Commonwealth University
who influenced me through their teaching: Thelma S. Biddle, William Blake, Norrece T.
Jones, Jr., of the History Department, and Cliff Edwards and Jack D. Spiro of the
Religious Studies Department.

Lindsay and Madeline Robertson for hoteling in Swarthmore, Pa., while on a research
trip to Philadelphia.

Finally, I would like to thank Charles and Nancy Martin Purdue of the University of
Virginia Folklore Archives, and David B. Mattern of the Papers of James Madison for
their special friendship and encouragement over the years, as well as that of Daniel V.
and Barbara Avent, Sam Crocket, and John Owen, who long ago encouraged and
supported my family and I in this insane venture. I owe an unredeemable debt of
gratitude to my parents, Earlene Pearson and Frank E. Grizzard, Sr., for their generous
and untiring support during this phase of my life. Last, but certainly not least, my wife
Pamela has expressed infinite patience and never once harrassed me about the length of
time it took to complete this project, and our six children tolerated my all-too-often
divided attention, Jewel, Sarah, Noah, Hannah, Mary Katherine, and Margaret.