Patrick Henry and His WorldDoubleday, 1969 - 498 pages On May 29, 1765, a young backwoods lawyer named Patrick Henry rose in the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, Virginia, and offered exciting resolutions that were the prelude to the American Declaration of Independence. This is an account of that young lawyer, the politics of his day, and his part in our early history. |
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... known just when he was born , but prob- ably in 1704 or 1705. Nor is it known where he got his early school- ing . It may have been at home or at a local school , perhaps the small parish school . At any rate , he proved himself to be a ...
... known just when he was born , but prob- ably in 1704 or 1705. Nor is it known where he got his early school- ing . It may have been at home or at a local school , perhaps the small parish school . At any rate , he proved himself to be a ...
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... known . The colonel was descended from the blue - blooded West family , which gave Virginia one of its first and worst governors , Lord de La Warr ( Delaware ) . Other Wests had been governors in the colony . Dandridge's wife was ...
... known . The colonel was descended from the blue - blooded West family , which gave Virginia one of its first and worst governors , Lord de La Warr ( Delaware ) . Other Wests had been governors in the colony . Dandridge's wife was ...
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... known . Braxton's Address to the Convention of Virginia on the Subject of Government will be considered shortly . ** Biographers of George Mason and James Madison have been unduly exer- cised by Henry's remark that , in framing a ...
... known . Braxton's Address to the Convention of Virginia on the Subject of Government will be considered shortly . ** Biographers of George Mason and James Madison have been unduly exer- cised by Henry's remark that , in framing a ...
Contents
A Day to Remember | 1 |
A Hard School | 11 |
At Sheltons Tavern | 29 |
Copyright | |
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