| Jared Sparks - 1844 - 434 Seiten
...until the existing difficulties should be adjusted. As deputies to the General Congress they designated Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton. The president of the Convention, Peyton Randolph, was authorized to call another meeting, if occasion... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - 1845 - 250 Seiten
...which the people laboured. To this congress Virginia deputed seven of her most respectable citizens : Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton ; men who would have done honour to any age or country. They were appointed in like manner to attend... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 Seiten
...representatives of the colony of Virginia in the congress about to be held — Peyton Randolph, Richard Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton. On the 5th of September these seven persons met at Philadelphia with the deputies appointed by eleven... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - 1846 - 250 Seiten
...which the people laboured. To this congress Virginia deputed seven of her most respectable citizens : Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton ; men who would have done honour to any age or country. They were appointed in like manner to attend... | |
| Charles Campbell - 1847 - 220 Seiten
...The convention met accordingly. A new and more thorough non-importation association was subscribed. Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Bland, Benjamin Harrison and Edmund Pendleton, were appointed delegates to Congress. The session lasted only six days. * Wirt attributes the suggestion... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - 602 Seiten
...which was called to meet at Williamsburg on the 1st day of August. The Virginia convention appointed Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, to meet the delegates from the other colonies, which were to assemble at Philadelphia in September.... | |
| Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 Seiten
...desired by all British America.' ' FRIDAY, August 5, 1774. this Colony in General Congress, when the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, Esqs., were appointed for that purpose.' 'NORTH CAROLINA. ' At a general meeting of deputies of the... | |
| Robert Reid Howison - 1848 - 542 Seiten
...introduced, but not passed, by the House of Commons.' The members appointed as deputies to Congress, were Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton. On the 4th of September, at Carpenter's Hall, in Philadelphia, the venerable body assembled which was... | |
| Robert Purviance - 1849 - 250 Seiten
...meeting adjourned till to-morrow, nine o'clock. Resolved, That the honorable Peyton Randolph, Esq., Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry,...Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, Esqs. be appointed deputies on the part of this colony, to meet the deputies appointed or to be appointed... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 Seiten
...in session. Resolutions, in the same spirit with those passed in Fairfax County, were adopted, and Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington,...Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, were appointed delegates, to represent the people of Virginia in the General Congress. Shortly after Washington's... | |
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