Category: Biographies
Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled, to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to d...
_Virginia_ is bounded on the east by the Atlantic; on the north by a line of latitude crossing the eastern shore through Watkin's Point, being about 37° 57' north latitude; from...
12. PART III.Not long after the establishment of the city of New-Orleans, and while the religious society of Jesuits retained their standing in France, they obtained from Louis XIV. a grant...
6. PART II.Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled, t...
8. PART IV.BROTHER JOHN BAPTIST DE COIGNE,--I am very much pleased with the visit you have made us, and particularly that it has happened when the wise men from all parts of our country we...
7. PART III.GENTLEMEN,--The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highe...
11. PART II.Peyton Randolph was the eldest son of Sir John Randolph, of Virginia, a barrister at law, and an eminent practitioner at the bar of the General Court. Peyton was educated at the...
9. PART I.--NOTES ON VIRGINIA.This fourth and last division of the work contains a large mass of very valuable and interesting miscellaneous matter--everything, indeed, valuable and interesting written by Mr...
3. BOOK III--PART III.2. BOOK III.--PART II.4. BOOK III.--Part IV.1. Part II ends with an unfinished sentence, and an incomplete address.5. PART II.