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  • ...|Wythe's decisions]], sources in biographies of [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Henry Clay]], and [[Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wythe|Clarkin's]] and [[Geor ...resent Majesty King George the Second]]. [London] in the Savoy, printed by Henry Lintot, for John Worrall, 1754. [Millicent Sowerby, <u>Catalogue of the Lib
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  • ...that on the invitation of George Walker, he spent four nights at Walker's home on the "Strawberry banks," and found Mrs. Walker "more loving" than he had ...opposition did not proceed from any real difference of principle with Mr. Henry, but further action was deemed by him premature until answers to the memori
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  • [[File:VirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Letter from Henry Clay to Benjamin Blake Minor, printed in the ''Virginia Historical Register ...[[Media:GeorgeWytheVirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.pdf|Letter from Hon. Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, Esq.]]," ''Virginia Historical Register, and Literary C
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  • ===Henry Home Kames, ''[[Principles of Equity]]''=== <span style="color: #006600;">"What Home has said, on this question, in his principles of equity, part I. sect II. a
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  • ...aft copies of the [[Declaration of Independence]] to George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Philip Mazzei, John Page, Sr., and Edmund Pendleton. ...Lee, 29 June 1776. In James Curtis Ballagh, ed., ''The Letters of Richard Henry Lee,'' vol. 1, ''1762-1778'' (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 203.</ref>
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  • ....<ref>Jean Edward Smith, ''John Marshall: Definer of a Nation'' (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996), 23.</ref> ...versity Press, 2001), 7.</ref> After one year at the school, John returned home.<ref>Ibid.</ref> There, his father hired him a private tutor, a young Angli
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  • ...ation of Independence]], reportedly handed down from the family of Richard Henry Lee (but suspected of being the copy sent to [[George Wythe]]). The manuscr ...tion in Jefferson's hand except that supposed to have been sent to Richard Henry Lee. This draft was classed among the lost historic records.
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  • ...e pruned down by his more cautious compeers, he opposed the resolutions of Henry against the stamp ...Mr. Jefferson in his Summary View. Although he opposed the resolutions of Henry for putting the colonies into a posture of defence, which were adopted by t
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  • ...Henry Tazewell, Richard Parker, Spencer Roane, [[St. George Tucker]], and Henry St. George Tucker, Francis T. Brooke, and William H. Cabell.<ref>S.S.P. Pat ...reek. Whatever may have been the real cause, his early years were spent at home. His literary advantages were thus limited; but his mother's influence impl
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  • ...more conservative tendencies, Pendleton frequently disagreed with Patrick Henry, whom he regarded as a demagogue.<ref>Thomas P. Abernathy, Vol. VII, Part 2 Henry Clay, who worked for and studied under Wythe from ? to ?, described the dif
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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.&mdash;"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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  • ...00) </ref> Their relationship was strained, and Lucian eventually left his home and his apprenticeship.<ref> Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s.v. "Lucian,
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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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  • ...s Governor of Virginia from 1834 to 1836, and then retired. He died at his home in Norfolk, in 1860. ...nerosity in allowing Tazewell and other young men to board with him in his home. Tazewell notes with great affection Wythe's special fondness for teaching,
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  • ...nce, and his instruction of [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[John Marshall]], and [[Henry Clay]]. The thesis is presented here in its entirety, with permission:<ref> ...[[John Marshall]], [[Henry Clay]], [[James Monroe]], [[Spencer Roane]], [[Henry St. George Tucker]], [[John Wickham]], [[Daniel Call]], [[William Munford]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848''}} ...|thumb|right|350px|Title page from Sargent's ''Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848'' (Auburn, NY: Derby & Miller, 1852).]]
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  • |name=Henry Izard Henry Izard (1771 &ndash; 1826) was born at sea on May 15, 1771, while his parent
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  • This year, 1755, when he decided to make his home in the capital, may be fixed in mind as one of the important years in his l ...dence"&mdash;a foreign affairs committee, or shall we say, a committee for home affairs across the sea, since the hated "[[wikipedia:Stamp Act 1765|Stamp a
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  • |2ndofficepreceded= [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tazewell Henry Tazewell] ...y in Albermarle County. There, Nicholas lived as a planter and built a new home, which he named "Mt. Warren." In 1785 he married Margaret Smith, with whom
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  • ...When he was missed, search was made for him, and he was found and brought home, but not until the funeral was over. ...that era. I well remember hearing him describe a visit he made to Patrick Henry, when the orator lived at Venable's Ford in Prince Edward, and his finding
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  • ...appeared in the ''Virginia Gazette'' in September, 1766, regarding Richard Henry Lee's involvement with the Stamp Act. ...regard to the Stamp Act must convince every (Text obscured) (even Richard Henry Lee himself) that it had no (Text obscured) that I now condemn the hero of
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  • ...</ref> Wythe's parents, however, enslaved people at their [[Chesterville]] home, so Margaret may not have shared her grandfather's anti-slavery worldview.< ...ved many people both at his family plantation in Elizabeth City County and home in Williamsburg, Virginia, but these are the slaves who are named in surviv
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  • Ordered, That the statute made in the twenty sixth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, "An act whereby offense be made high treason, and ta ...he provisions of the statute of the thirty-fifth year of the reign of King Henry the eighth, in case your Majesty shall, upon receiving the said information
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  • ...Old Richmond''] (Richmond, VA: Valentine Museum, 1941), 203-204. Tinsley's home was located where the Richmond Coliseum stands today (2018).</ref> He marri ...[[Life and Public Services of Henry Clay|''The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848,'']] edited by Horace Greeley (Auburn, NY: Derby & Mille
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  • ...r-in-law, the Reverend Thomas Price, after he and his wife left the family home in Gloucester, Virginia (now Mathews Co.), taking with him the carriage, a ...rom 1760 to 1780. It contains interesting entries in reference to John and Henry Armistead, Nathaniel Burwell, William Byrd, John Buckner, Carter Braxton, J
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  • ...[wikipedia:Benjamin Franklin|Franklin]], [[wikipedia:Patrick Henry|Patrick Henry]], [[wikipedia:Benjamin Rush|Benjamin Rush]], and other distinguished Ameri ...nd of them the most important are now published with the consent of Doctor Henry R. Mcllwaine, State Librarian. They are chiefly valuable for throwing light
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves}} [[File:HenryResolutions30May1765P1.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Recto of Patrick Henry's "Stamp Act Resolves," 29-30 May, 1765. Image from [https://research.colon
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  • ...Elizabeth County area.<ref>There is some speculation that Wythe moves back home because of the death of his first wife, Ann Lewis. Hemphill, 52.</ref> Upon ...or the General Court and signed licenses for practitioners such as Patrick Henry.<ref>Hemphill, 106 (citing Tyler's Quarterly Magazine, IX, 97). Also signed
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