Wythe, George, 1726-1806
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Wythe, George, 1726-1806
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1726-1806
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Wythe, George
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George Wythe.
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George Wythe.
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Wythe, George (Richmond, Va.)
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Wythe, George (Richmond, Va.)
Wythe, George (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Wythe, George (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wythe, George (Williamsburg, Va.)
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Wythe, George (Williamsburg, Va.)
Wythe, George (Williamsburgh, Va.)
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Wythe, George (Williamsburgh, Va.)
Wythe, George. Williamsburg
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Wythe, George. Williamsburg
Wythe, George. Virginia
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Wythe, George. Virginia
Wythe, G.
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Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1736. He was largely self-educated, becoming a prominent trial lawyer and great orator. The most famous phrase attributed to him is "Give me liberty or give me death." He was delegate to the House of Burgesses, 1765-1774; the Continential Congress, 1774-1776; and the Virginia provincial convention, 1775. He also served as governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Patrick Henry died in 1799.
George Wythe was born in 1726 in Elizabeth City County, Va. Wythe was a Virginia lawyer, judge, and legal scholar. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence and served at the U.S. Constitutional Convention, but did notsign the Constitution. Wythe was appointed as the first professor of law in the U.S. at the College of William and Mary in 1779. He was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson, who received Wythe's book collection upon Wythe's death. Wythe was a slaveholder, but later became an abolitionist and freed his slaves. He was poisoned by his nephew with arsenic, but survived long enough to exclude his nephew from his will.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/15967477
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80051323
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n80051323
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1397321
https://viaf.org/viaf/218154819
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Subjects
1778-1927
Slavery
Slavery
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Fugitive slaves
Harlem Heights, Battle of, N.Y., 1776
Kip's Bay, Battle of, N.Y., 1776
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Probate law and practice
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Virginia--Williamsburg
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Virginia
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King and Queen County (Va.)
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Romancocke Plantation (King and Queen County, Va.)
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