Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-11

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ineton and offered his services TO the pa
triot cause. He was taken into the Cen
erals military family as aide-de-camp.
Soon afterwards he was elected TO the Viz
GINA Convention of Nav, I776, which de-
cared Independence, and was one OF the
committee which framed the Bill OF Rights
and the Constltution--memOra papers,
which have shaped the Governments OF
America. aad through them are infuen-
cling all Christendom in liberalizing their
/ Goveruments. The convention placed nm
| in his fathers Office in organizing the new
! Government, and he served in It and as a
member Of Congress till 1886, when he was
/ made Governor Of the State. While Gov
/ ernor he was sent tolthe convention which
/ framed the Federal Constitution, and on
/ behalf Of the Virginia delegation intro
/ duced that plan which proved TO be the
/ skeleton on which the system OF govern
ment was framed. He was member OF
/ the Virginia Convention OF 1888, which
adopted the Constitution and was the first
| Attorney General Of the United States and
| the second Secretary of State.
! Colonel Edward Darlington. who entered
/ the Revolutionary service as lieutenant
! colonel of artillery in November, l776 and
was engaged IN the memorable campaigns
/ IN the Carolinas, who, as quartermaster TO
| General Greene. saved his army on its re-
treat before CORVALLIS by securingits pass
/ age of the Dan. and whose services have
been imbedded in history by Light-Horse
/ Harry Lee in his volume on the war. lie
was a brilliant soldier, orator. and writer
/ Colonel Darlington was afterwards at
| Yorktown and served the State as a mem
Der of the Continental Congress. After
! the Revolution he enjoyed the closest init
macy with Washington and was consulted
as TO his appointments in Virginia.
DIR. William Foushee was a prominent
man in his profession and in the affairs of
this city He had the honor of giving the
name TO one of our streets, an honor also
accorded TO Colonel Richard Adams. DIR.
| Foushee was graduate of the medical
| college of Edinburg, was made medical
| director of Virginia during the RevOlu-
! ton. was the president of the James River
| Company. was the first Mayor of Rich
mOnd. and afterwards for many years its
postmaster. One of his daughters NOR
ried Thomas Richie. the famous editor,
and their son, William Foushee Richie,
was the slayer in duel of the most brill
liant editor of his day, the lamented John
Hampden Peasants.
Thomas Adams was for years member
of the Continental Congress and after
wards State senator and a member of the
| Convention of l775 from Augusta county.
Colonel Richard Adams and Samuel Du-
val were the members from Henrico In the
| Convention of March, IT'S, which met IN
this building, and each were men of great
prominence in their day. They were after
wards placed on the committee charged
with the execution of the act removing
the seat Of government from Williamsburg
10 Richmond in 1879. Richard Adams was
frequently a member of the House of Bur
gesses and of the Virginia Assembly.
Samuel Duyal was a membef of the
House Of Burgesses and agallant officer in
the Revolution. He was businessman of
high character, rs is evidenced by his APP
pointment rs sheriff Of the county and
parish collector Offices then only con-
ferrcd on men of merit and spotless In
tegrity.
joseph and William Mayo were two
brothers from Barbados whose names are
linked with the history of this city. The
first settled at Powhatan, the residence OF
the Indian king who met the English on
their first visit TO the falls of our river IN
1907, and the second, who came with him
was the surveyor who in 1928 % ran the
dividng-ine with North Carolina for the
commission on which Colonel William
Byrd served. He was the Major Mayo who
lnld of the town of Richmond for Colonel
Byrd in 1877. He served in tho State lin,
during the Revolution and IN tho House oil
Delegates afterwards.
| Colonel John Haryie was Ia successful
lawyer, who served his country ably II
many capacities. He served IN the HOuS,
OF Burgesses. the House of Delegates, anC
the Continental Congress, and WAS united
with John Walker rs q commissioner I,
treat with the Indians at Fort Pitt. lie
served for years as the Register OF the
Land Office.
Near Colonel Harvie resided Jacqueline
Amber man of similar character; who
was member of the Executive Council
during the Revolution afterwards Trea
surer of the State for many years.
! Daniel l.. Hylton, a wealthy and intuen
tial merchant, also served in the Council o
State and will be remembered when mos
of his contemporaries are forgotten, a
his name is embedded in the reports OF thu
Supreme Court Of the United States in the
great case Of Ware rs. HyltOn, involving
the collection Of the British debts con
tracted before the Revolution and conts
Gated by Virginia during the war.
| Turner Southall was n member OF the
Legislature for years during and after the
Revolution. He was ono of the most
highly useful citizens of Richmond, ant
filled many local offices of trust and i'm
Oliver p. Baldwin, the accomplished
IplIes-Piires scholar and brilliant writer
must not be omitted, nor George NJ. Car
rington and John Enders, who dld more
pprhaps than all others to sustain the
church in It's most trying times.
But time, the speaker added, would fan
me 10 notice the representative men OF tho
prominent families Of Richmond who have
acted as vestrymen of this church. The
families of McRobert, Pollard, McRae
Nicholson, williamson, Greenhow, Hay
Taylor. Baker, Shepherd, Shelton, En-
ders, Myers, Dove, Burton, BuTweili
Lancaster. Crump, Michel, Cosby, Whit
lock. Sublet, Massie, Williams, Womble
Fisher. Isaacs. Grant, Taliaferro, Palmer
Alfr.end. Yarbrough, Greanor, West, Bald
win, Randolph, Johnston, Knox, Brown
Stokes. Yerby, Darlington. Gllnn, Bos
sieux. and many others who are equally
worthy Of mention.
The orator for the next fifteen minute
drew the attention Of bis hearers from The
church TO the cemetery which surroundslt
SOME WHO REST HERE.
The lots given by Colonel William Byrc
adjacent 10 the church, he said were earl,
used for the burial of the dead, and IN l7y
the city added TO them and enlarged tn
grounds TO their present proportions. TO
wears. and until the establishment of TIN
cemetery on ShOckOe Hill, in 1915, all de
nominations used this church.yard for tn
burial of their dead. The Oldest date re-
/ naming on any tombstone Il tudt Wnlcl
commentaries the death OF Rev. Rober
Rose. IN 1851. This learned and able clergy
man of the Established Church vas
: prominent character in Colonial history
lie was a man of affairs. He first proposed
the canal along the falls Of James river
, and he was the friend and executor o
Governor Alexander Spotswood. lie lei
diary which Is of great value, as 1t give
/ an interesting picture of his times. with
; out following any chronological order, MI
Henry referred to a few OF the graves o
! prominent men who lie buried here. Frs
/ he named Governor John Page, soldle
/ and statesman, and at the same tim
, SO much of theolOgian that hi
, friends urged him to take holy orders
| and who was with Washington IN IN
= French war, served afterwards IN tn
! House of Burgessss, in the Colonial Cour
/ ell, in the Committee of Safety. in tn
! Convention of 1916 (Which framed tn
, State Constitution, in tho first Executlv
{ Council of the State, in Congress, an
Q finally in the Office of Governor, succeed
7 ing Monroe in 1902.
9 Near the western entrance OF the churc
: there is an unmarked grave which Is nile
I by one of the most illustTiOus OF our RevC
lutionary patriots-the learned and accom-
Q plished Chancellor George Wythe, WI
y from 1853 to the Revolution served IN Tn
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