Patrick Henry collection 1765-1794.

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Patrick Henry collection 1765-1794.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85773419

Consists of selected manuscript material by and about Patrick Henry. Included are three signed autograph letters, two signed documents, one autograph note, and one steel engraved portrait of Henry.

.20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

Princeton University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8334054

Princeton University Library

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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 ...