Excerpts from The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792

Robert A. Rutland, ed., 3 vols. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1970).

1792 Documents

20 Aug 1792 To John Mason, pp. 1271-1273.

p. 1272: "I see in a late Alexandria News-Paper, notice of an intended Application to the Virga. Assembly, at the next Session, for their projected Bridge over Potomack River, opposite, or nearly opposite to George Town, & for a Condemnation of Land to join the Southern Abuttment to, & for a Road, if necessary."

[This entry suggests a possible line of inquiry, because the building of a bridge between Virginia and Maryland (or, in this case, the future District of Columbia) required clarification of jurisdictions on either side of the river.]