Land grant to Sampson Cole, for a tract of 269 acres in Washington County, Va., 1786 June 26.

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Land grant to Sampson Cole, for a tract of 269 acres in Washington County, Va., 1786 June 26.

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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 ...

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Patrick Henry, a well known Virginia statesman, served as Governor of the the Commonwealth from 1776 to 1779. From the guide to the A Guide to the Gov. Patrick Henry Land Grant to James Carson, 16 May 1786, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Patrick Henry was born on 29 May 1736 in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, the second son of John Henry and Sarah Winston Syme. Henry married twice; first to Sarah Shelton in 1754, and later to Dorothea...