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Maj. Gen. William Phillips was the ranking officer of the Convention Army; while in Albemarle co. he lived at Edward Carter’s house, Blenheim, which still stands (DNB description begins Dictionary of National Biography description ends ; Rawlings, Ante-Bellum Charlottesville, p. 9). The reidesel family (Maj. Gen. Friederich Adolph, Baron von Riedesel, commander of the Brunswick troops in British service, the Baroness Frederika von Riedesel, and their three young daughters) were established at Colle, Philip Mazzei’s house and farm near Monticello, where they lived upon an ample scale; see Riedesel’s Memoirs, Letters and Journals …, transl. W. L. Stone, Albany, 1868, ii, 66ff.; and Mme. Riedesel’s Letters and Journals, ed. W. L. Stone, Albany, 1867, p. 143ff. Miss Jefferson: Martha, TJ’s eldest child, born 1772.