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Preferred Citation

Patrick Henry. Ledger, 1762-1770. Accession 20473, Business records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Lent for copying by Elizabeth City County Clerk of Court, 30 September 1932.

Biographical/Historical Information

Patrick Henry was born 29 May 1736 in Hanover County, Virginia, to John and Sara Winston Henry. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and Virginia Convention, governor of Virginia 1776-1779, 1784- 1786, and delegate to the Virginia Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788. He was married to Sarah Shelton and Dorothea Dandridge. He died 6 June 1799 at his home on Red Hill Plantation, Charlotte County, Virginia.

Scope and Content Information

Ledger, 1762-1770, containing accounts for legal fees charged by Patrick Henry. Numerous accounts appear for Hanover County merchants, especially Alexander Donald. Among other accounts recorded are those for Carter Braxton, Col. John Henry, James Lyle, John Mercer, Robert Carter Nicholas, and John Shelton, Henry's father-in-law. There are also numerous entries recorded during 1767 for individuals residing in the western counties of the state, especially Augusta County. This volume is incomplete. An index to this volume is filed as Accession 22408a.