Considerations on the Present State of Virginia
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Excerpt from Considerations on the Present State of Virginia: Attributed to John Randolph, Attorney General; And Considerations on the Present State of Virginia Examined The two pamphlets reprinted in this volume were issued anonymously in 1774. On the title page of the first there has been written by a contemporary hand "By John Randolph esq. his majes. attorney genl. of that colony & brother to the speaker of the ho. of assembly who is chairman at the general congress held at Philadelphia." The only copy I have been able to find is in the New York Public Library. There is nothing in the pamphlet that discloses the author to a certainty. There is strong presumptive evidence, however, that John Randolph was the writer; for he is referred to by Nicholas in the second pamphlet as being one who was in attendance at one or more courts of the colony, and again as a member of the House of Burgesses who was present when the bill appointing a day for a fast was adopted. John Randolph was born in 1727, the son of Sir John Randolph. He was trained for the law, and became one of the leading lawyers of the colony, in 1766 succeeding his brother, Peyton Randolph, as attorney-general, a position which he retained until he left Virginia in 1775. It was permissible under the colonial government for an official to be also a member of the House of Burgesses. In the session of May, 1774, and again in June, 1775, he was a member of that body, representing the College of William and Mary. On leaving the colony, he took with him his wife and daughters Ariana and Susannah. The family spent some time in the Scotch house of Lord Dunmore, and it was there that his daughter Ariana was married to James Wormeley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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