1Enclosure: Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves, 30 May 1765 (Jefferson Papers)
Patrick Henry’s Resolutions copied from the Journal of the House of Burgesses in 1765. May 30 . 1 Resolved That the first adventurers and settlers of this his Majesty’s Colony and Dominion of Virginia brought with them and transmitted to their posterity, and all other his Majesty’s subjects since inhabiting in this his Majesty’s said colony, all the Liberties, Privileges, Franchises and...
2Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Patrick Henry, [before 12 April 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
My acquaintance with mr Henry commenced in the winter of 1759–60. on my way to the college I passed the Christmas holidays at Col o Dandridge’s in Hanover , to whom mr Henry was a near neighbor. during the festivity of the season I met him in society every day, and we became well acquainted, altho’ I was much his junior, being then in my 17 th year, & he a married man. the spring following he...