whenever your court rises: as part of his responsibilities as a judge on Virginia’s General Court, to which he had been appointed in 1800, Stuart presided over district court sessions on a rotating basis. He and another judge were assigned to the districts based in Staunton, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, and Haymarket for the summer terms of 1804, the earliest Charlottesville assignment for Stuart that the Editors have been able to confirm. Stuart wrote to TJ from Charlottesville on 23 Sep., several days after the district court had convened (Richmond Virginia Argus, 4 July; Albemarle County District Court Deed Book, 1:212; ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, New York and Oxford, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ; Vol. 43:465-9).