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Eighth great grandson speaks all over at events. Patrick Jolley Henry iirc. Very eloquent and knowledgeable. the family place is Red Hill.
Henry’s life is remarkable. As is Thomas Paine who only escaped being guillotined in France in their revolution, because a jail guard chalked an X on the wrong side of the door (wino- is the guess). Seriously he was to be chopped.
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Just reading about Patrick Henry this morning. I forgot he was elected Governor of Virginia FIVE times, of which two times he declined.
It’s too bad educators [sic] have modernly often denigrated our Founding Fathers.
Just picked up a (brand new) Patrick Henry biography at a used bookstore - can’t wait to crack it open.
Folks,
we are so used to memes, cartoons and drive by postings. It is important to take the time to read something worthy and reflect on it, preferably the Bible but this is good too.
Use something like this to listen to when you go to sleep at night.
We cannot give to the next generation, what we do not have. Take time to learn our heritage.
He opposed the Constitution, tried to get a separation between the states, then after the ratification became its “biggest fan.”
He is a typical politician, cast in today’s democrat model. As Jefferson said, we should pray for his early death.
Will check it out! Why?
It appears my great x3 grandfather knew Patrick Henry and lived near him. Born in 1748, died 1850, he was at St. John’s Church and heard PH’s message (outside church as hundreds were - only delegates were inside) and immediately afterwards signed up - with his 4 brothers - to fight as Minute Men.....more than any other family in Hanover County, VA and probably more than any other family that fought in the war.
All this is in Federal records from his 1832 Rev. War Pension Application.
In 1802 the Fed. gov. offered a 2,000 acre land grant to all Rev. War vets who would move to the western territories. He packed up his 2 oxen, wife and son and headed west. One ox died in Macon County, TN on Long Creek. He took his 2,000 acres there - where my dad was born - and over 700 of those original acres are still in my family. My great x3 grandfather is buried there & I’ve been to his gravesite where the VA put up a monument to him in 1997.
I live about 17 miles from Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown home.
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Will download. Love Patrick Henry.
Thank you.