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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
of the Federal Constitution. In the battle of intellectual giants composing that body, with eloquence and zeal he pleaded for its adoption. By his side, and voting with him on that important question, were such men as James Madison, John Marshall, afterward Chief Justice of the United States, and Edmund Randolph; while in the ranks of the opposition stood Patrick Henry with immense oratorical strength, George Mason, the wisest man, Mr. Jefferson said, he ever knew, Benjamin Harrison, William Grayson, and others, who thought the Constitution, as it came from the hands of its framers, conferred too much power on the Federal Government and too little upon its creator, the States. In 1786 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress. From 1792 to 1795 he was Governor of Virginia, and was selected by President Washington to command the fifteen thousand men from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland, who were sent into western Pennsylvania to quell what was known as the Whisky Insurr
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 4: War. (search)
d the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. Nine States, a requisite number, had approved the Constitution before Virginia acted. The debates in her convention on this subject have no equal in intellectual vigor. Mental giants, full-armed with wisdom, fought on either side. In one rank-opposed to the adoption of the Constitution as it came from the hands of its framers — was Patrick Henry, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, James Monroe, Benjamin Harrison, and William Grayson. In the other were James Madison, John Marshall, Edmund Randolph, Edmund Pendleton, and General Henry Lee, and behind them, as a powerful reserve, was the great influence of Washington. On the final vote friends of the measure secured a majority of only ten votes. The next State to adopt it after Virginia was New York, and she did so by only three votes. North Carolina did not join the Union immediately, and Rhode Island for fifteen months, after the new Constitution had gone into o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, State of. (search)
1803 Robert Bowie1804 to 1805 Robert Wright1806 to 1808 Edward Lloyd1809 to 1810 Robert Bowie1811 to 1812 Levin Winder1813 to 1814 Charles Ridgely1815 to 1817 Charles W. Goldsborough1818 to 1819 Samuel Sprigg1820 to 1822 Samuel Stevens, Jr1823 to 1825 Joseph Kent1826 to 1828 Daniel Martin1829 Governors under the Constitution—Continued. Name.Term. Thomas K. Carroll1830 Daniel martin1831 George Howard1831 to 1832 James Thomas1833 to 1835 Thomas W. Veazey1836 to 1838 William Grayson1839 to 1841 Francis Thomas1842 to 1844 Thomas G. Pratt1845 to 1847 Philip F. Thomas1848 to 1850 Enoch L. Lowe1851 to 1855 Thomas W. Ligon1856 to 1857 Thomas H. Hicks1858 to 1861 Augustus W. Bradford1862 to 1864 Thomas Swann1865 to 1867 Oden Bowie1868 to 1871 W. P. Whyte1872 to 1874 James B. Groome1875 John lee Carroll1876 to 1879 William T. Hamilton1880 to 1883 Robert M. McLane1884 to 1887 Elihu E. Jackson1888 to 1891 Frank Brown1892 to 1896 Lloyd Lowndes1896 to 1900 J
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
tors afterwards became Presidents of the United States—Monroe, Adams (J. Q.), Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison (William H.), Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, and Harrison (Benjamin). The first Senator that died during his term was William Grayson, of Virginia, whose death occurred March 1, 1790. The custom of taking public and official action on the decease of a Senator and of incurring expense on account thereof was of slow growth. During the first thirty-seven years of the Senater; from New Jersey, William Paterson and Jonathan Elmer; from Pennsylvania, William Maclay and Robert Morris; from Delaware, Richard Bassett and George Read; from Maryland, Charles Carroll and John Henry; from Virginia, Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson; from South Carolina, Ralph Izard and Pierce Butler; from Georgia, William Few and James Gunn. One-half of them had been members of the convention which framed the Constitution and seventeen of them had taken part in the work of the Contine
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
son1852 to 1856 Henry A. Wise1856 to 1860 John Letcher1860 to 1864 William Smith1864 to 1865 Francis A. Pierpont1865 to 1867 Henry A. Wells1867 to 1869 Gilbert C. Walker1869 to 1874 James L. Kemper1874 to 1878 F. W. M. Holliday1878 to 1882 W. E. Cameron1882 to 1886 Fitz-Hugh Lee1886 to 1890 Philip W. McKinney1890 to 1894 Charles T. O'Ferrall1894 to 1898 J. Hoge Tyler1898 to 1902 United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. Richard Henry Lee1st to 2d1789 to 1792 William Grayson1st1789 to 1790 John Walker1st1790 James Monroe1st to 4th1790 to 1795 John Taylor2d to 3d1792 to 1794 Henry Tazewell3d to 5th1794 to 1799 Stevens Thomson Mason4th to 8th1795 to 1803 Wilson Cary Nicholas6th to 8th1800 to 1804 Andrew Moore8th to 11th1804 to 1809 William B. Giles8th to 14th1814 to 1815 John Taylor8th1808 Abraham B. Venable8th1803 to 1804 Richard Brent11th to 13th1809 to 1814 James Barbour13th to 19th1815 to 1825 Armistead T. Mason14th1816 to 1817 John W. Eppes
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Thomas 1715-1794 (search)
boundaries of Kentucky. He was commissary-general under Washington in General Braddock's army, and was present at the latter's defeat. In 1775 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served on the second committee of safety; in 1777 was appointed with his son, Col. John Walker, to visit the Indians in Pittsburg, Pa., for the purpose of gaining their friendship for the Americans; and in 1778 was made president of the commission to settle the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. Walker Mountains in southwestern Virginia were named after him. He died in Albemarle county, Va., Nov. 9, 1794. His son, John, legislator; born in Albemarle county, Va., Feb. 13, 1744, was an aide to Washington during the Revolutionary War, and was by him recommended to Patrick Henry on Feb. 24, 1777, for ability, honor, and prudence. He succeeded William Grayson in the United States Senate, where he served in May- December, 1790. He died in Orange county, Va., Dec. 2, 1809.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
The opponents were Patrick Henry, George Mason, William Grayson, James Monroe. These were the principal debated were in strange contrast to those of Randolph and Grayson. His habits were convivial and he was careless andegnant list I have selected George Nicholas and William Grayson. George Nicholas. Whilst Henry was par the grave was a strange and pathetic scene. William Grayson. If George Nicholas was the Ajax Telamon who supported the Constitution, William Grayson may justly be regarded as the Cicero in opposition. He was a -known partiality and advocacy of the Constitution, Grayson concluded one of his eloquent speeches by saying: Whim can concentrate the confidence of all America! Grayson was both a soldier and a statesman. His military cy lineament perfect and distinct. The address of Grayson was said to be winning and courteous, his conversatho was distrustful and apprehensive of the future. Grayson declared that under the proposed Constitution he c
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ate Veterans Living 368 Featherston, Capt. John C., 161 Fisher's Hill, Desperate Picket Fight, 221 Fleming, Prof. W. L., 8 Forrest, Gen. N. B., 10 Fredericksburg Hattie of, Confederates and Federals Killed and Wounded at, 24 Historic Spots in Field Around, 197 Freeman, Dr. Douglas S., 371 G Co. 24th Va. Infantry, History of members, 256 Garnet, Judge, Theo. S., 251 Gettysburg, Battle of, 245 Gibbons, J. R 236 Gildersleeve, r. J. R., 86 Goss, Lynn C, 287 Grayson, William, Sketch of, 57 Remarkable preservation of his body in the grave, 58 Green, Mrs. Anne S., 150 Greatness of Great Things, The, 305 Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 28 Henry, Patrick, Sketch of, 26, 30 Historic Spots of Battlefield around Fredericksburg, 197 Hoar, Senator, Geo. F., 314 Hodges, Dr., J. Adison, 94 Holliday, F. W. M., 157 Howitzers The Richmond, 23 Humphrey's Division Unveiling of Monument to, at Fredericksburg, 174 Address of McClure at, 175 Hunter's Raid in 186
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Provost Judge's Court--Brevet-Colonel J. McEntee presiding. (search)
were tried and disposed of at this Court yesterday: Henry Christian, a negro boy, charged with petit larceny — stealing one dollar and fifty cents--was found guilty and sent to Castle Thunder for thirty days. Martin Harvey and Henry Sanford, Twelfth United States Infantry. Charge — drunk and no pass. Guilty, and sent to Castle Thunder for twenty days. John Lucas, negro, charged with carrying concealed weapons. Guilty, and sent to Castle Thunder for thirty days. William Grayson, citizen, charged with selling liquor to soldiers. Guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars. Alexander Bundy, negro, charged with stealing a pair of boots. Guilty, and sentenced to sixty days confinement in Castle Thunder. Several other cases were called, but owing to the absence of witnesses they were postponed — among them the five negroes charged with stealing Mr. Lyons's horses. This case was postponed until next Wednesday. Reuben Donald, colored,<