County, were adopted, and Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, were appointed delegates, to represent the people of Virginia in the General Congress. The Works of Washington Irving ... - Page 359by Washington Irving - 1860Full view - About this book
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...their constituents laboured. To this congress Virginia deputed seven of her most respectable citizens ; Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edround Pendleton ; men who would have done honour to any age or country. The same were appointed in... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...America, should be collected in a General Congress of all the colonies, we have appointed the Honorable Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, Esquires, deputies to represent this colony in the said Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, on the... | |
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| Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 624 pages
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| 1826 - 518 pages
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| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
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