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  • ...d for first impressions which had the most salutary influence on my life." Henry Clay, who was for four years Wythe's amanuensis, whom Wythe taught and intr ...f Virginia, and helped design the seal of the state. It was he who brought home from Philadelphia the draft of the Constitution which Jefferson had made, a
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  • Williamsburg, 10 May, 1791.—"Tom Randolph [a student] is at home, and whether he will return is uncertain." . . . "Among the new students is ...as also left town, and then to go on to the mountains. The only persons at home at present are the two Miss Blairs and Miss Balfour, and to them I shall gi
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  • ...ch was George Wythe, the honor of his own, and the model of future times." Henry Clay's estimate, and that of almost every Virginian who knew Wythe, agreed ...bservation of the urbanity and suavity of Wythe's manners is also typical; Henry Clay thought that Wythe "made the most graceful bow that I have ever witnes
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  • ...the House, on these subjects, being no longer left to the old members, Mr. Henry, R. H. Lee, Fr. L. Lee, three or four other members, whom I do not recollec ...r the place, and the 5th of September for the time of meeting. We returned home, and in our several counties invited the clergy to meet assemblies of the p
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  • ...ear."<ref>Henry Clay to Benjamin B. Minor, May 3, 1851, in ''The Papers of Henry Clay,'' ed. Robert Seager II et al. (11 vols., 1959-1992), X, 888-89.</ref> George Wythe was born in 1726 or 1727 at his family's home, Chesterville, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia.<ref>Unless otherwise not
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  • ...Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills'' (London: In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer, esq.) and sold by S. Birt, 1743).</ref> as ...precedent he cited. In response, the plaintiff's attorney said he would go home and burn all his law books in an offering to Astrea, the Greek personificat
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  • |1stofficesucceeded=Henry Baldwin ...d his early education under the guidance of a tutor in the home of Richard Henry Lee, a prominent Virginian and eventual [[Declaration of Independence]] sig
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  • ...e Martin owed money to were English merchants Philip Nathaniel Devisme and Henry Smith, but the British bankruptcy court did not assign any of Martin's asse ...Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber|Henry Blackstone's Reports]].</ref> to support this idea.
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  • ...d Margaret with teaching George some Latin. <ref>Ibid.</ref> In contrast, Henry Clay--like Jefferson--believed Margaret's influence to be in Greek rather t ...f>Hemphill, ''George Wythe the Colonial Briton'', 32.</ref> Wythe's early home-based education was possibly supplemented by a short stint at the grammar s
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  • ...or misgivings, for Jefferson worried about slavery, the government of his home state, and American society in general.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was particularly ...calf; the spine features a red morocco label with gilt lettering. Signed "Henry O. Newcomb, 1834, No.9" on the front fly-leaf and "Job Goodale" on the titl
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  • Henry S. Shore, Wm. Goodwin, Anderson Barrett, David Lambert, and Wm. Richardson &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Henry S. Shore, Anderson <br>
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  • ..., 1.</ref> Their relationship was strained, and Lucian eventually left his home and his apprenticeship.<ref>Ibid., 2.</ref> He acquired a Greek literary ed
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  • Henry S. Shore, William Goodman, Anderson Barrett, David Lambert and William Rich ...what he had given him. The deponent made the alteration and then returned home, and afterwards went again to Mr. Wythe and informed him of the death of Mi
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  • ...848-1860, folder 4, Box 133, Brock Collection, [http://www.huntington.org/ Henry E. Huntington Library,] San Marino, CA.]] ...Death of Chancellor Wythe." Brock Collection, [http://www.huntington.org/ Henry E. Huntington Library,] San Marino, CA.]]
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  • ...ace and security of [http://www.rosewell.org/ "Rosewell,"] his magnificent home in Gloucester County, [[wikipedia:John Page (Virginia politician)|John Page ...had visited a Miss Nelson, who had then been living in the modest Richmond home of her uncle, the widowered, scholarly Chancellor. "She and all of us were
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  • Of Wythe's early life very little is known. He spent most of his youth at home, and received nothing like a thorough education.<small>5</small> While at s After two years spent in this cursory study of the law, Wythe returned home and devoted himself assiduously to his studies.<small>9</small> The defects
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  • |relatives= Children: Anne, Mary, Henry, William, Austin, Bettie, Lucy, Kemp, Alfred, Susanna, and Thomas. Ancestor ...ter his wife's death in 1838, the citizens of Warrenton bought the Plummer home and converted it into the Warrenton Female College.
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  • ...B2oVChMI7-qyiYCQyAIVBXA-Ch2wJA9l#v=onepage&q=ludwell%20lee&f=false Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary]'' (Rowman & Littl |relatives=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee Richard Henry Lee] (father)<br />[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lee_(Virginia_colo
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  • ...am (granddaughter), wife of [[wikipedia:William Henry Fitzhugh Lee|William Henry Lee]] ...v2/johnson-c.htm Chapman Johnson], and [[Daniel Call]].<ref>C. M. S., "The Home Life of Chief Justice Marshall," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12, N
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  • ...is life in Hampton, Virginia, where [[George Wythe|George Wythe's]] family home, [[Chesterville]], was located. Jones was a senior member of the firm Jones ...fice, he made little progress. After two years with Mr. Dewey, he returned home and without assistance pursued not only his legal studies, but worked in La
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