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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bacon , Nathaniel , 1642 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , James , 1656 -1743 (search)
Blair, James, 1656-1743
Educator; born in Scotland in 1656; was sent to Virginia as a missionary in 1865 and in 1692 obtained the charter of William and Mary College, of which he was the first president.
He published The state of his Majesty's colony in Virginia, in 1727.
He died in Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 1, 1743.<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , John , 1732 -1800 (search)
Blair, John, 1732-1800
Jurist; born in Williamsburg, Va., in 1732; was educated at the College of William and Mary; studied law at the Temple, London; soon rose to the first rank as a lawyer; was a member of the House of Burgesses as early as 1765, and was one of the dissolved Virginia Assembly who met at the Raleigh Tavern, in the summer of 1774, and drafted the Virginia non-importation agreement.
He was one of the committee who, in June, 1776, drew up the plan for the Virginia State gov-importation agreement.
He was one of the committee who, in June, 1776, drew up the plan for the Virginia State government, and in 1777 was elected a judge of the Court of Appeals; then chief-justice, and, in 1780, a judge of the High Court of Chancery.
he was one of the framers of the national Constitution; and, in 1789.
Washington appointed him a judge of the United States Supreme Court.
He resigned his seat on the bench of that court in 1796, and died in Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 31, 1800.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bland , Richard , 1710 -1776 (search)
Bland, Richard, 1710-1776
Statesman: born in Virginia.
May 6, 1710; was educated at the College of William and Mary; became a fine classical scholar, and was an oracle touching the rights of the colonies.
He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1745 until his death — a period of thirty-one years; and he was one of the most active of its patriotic members.
In 1774 he was a delegate in the Continental Congress, but declined to serve the next year.
In 1766 he published one of the ablest tracts of the time, entitled An inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
He died in Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 26, 177
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Botetourt , Norborne Berkeley , Baron , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cornwallis , Lord Charles 1738 -1805 (search)