Letters patent granting Barbry Nance McClurg 3,000 acres north of the Tennessee River. By Governor Patrick Henry. Virginia, November 18, 1786; copied 1837? 1786
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Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799
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Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was for the most part educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, and assisting his father-in-law ...