Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ll by his (Carys) dagger before the sunset of that day, would seemrather to support the poem than the portrait. Cary belonged to the family of Lord Falkland, and was a prosperousplanter, fond of agriculture, of blooded stock, and of the management ofhis iron foundry, from which, as from his resolute character, he wasknown as Old Iron. Under the new government he was to be chosento preside over the Senate of Virginia which he had been so prominent inestablishing, and his life thereafter was spent in retirement at Ampthill. It is impossible in a brief paper to mention even the names of the longlist of eminent Virginians who were members of the Convention and tooka prominent part in its deliberations. Many of these enjoyed a local THE VIRGINIA DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 389 celebrity as great as that of the actors on a larger arena; and a number ofthe latter even have been necessarily passed over. A few of those espe-cially prominent were Edmund Randolph, William Cabell, Henry Tazewell,
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COL. ARCHIBALD CARY. (Engraved for the December Magazine from the Portrait by Benjamin West.) Robert C. Nicholas, Richard Bland, Paul Carrington, George Wythe andJames Madison, who was to preside as Chief Magistrate over the Repub-lic of which he and his associates were laying the foundation. Several of the members were also delegates to the General Congress 390 THE VIRGINIA DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE at Philadelphia—among them Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley, one ofthe most resolute patriots of the time; a man of the highest honor, forwhom his most eminent contemporaries had the utmost respect, as full ofhumor as of determination, large of person, cordial in manners, who wasto become one of the Signers, then Governor of Virginia, and to remain,through storm and sunshine, the friend of Washington. Two other greatVirginians were also members of the Convention and of Congress—inwhich latter body they were so prominent that they were rarely able tosit in the former. Their names were,

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