The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . foreign nations,and then for a time commanded the militia of hisnative county against the predatoiy attacks of theenemy along the coast. In 1780, 1781, and 1783 hewas constantly op
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . foreign nations,and then for a time commanded the militia of hisnative county against the predatoiy attacks of theenemy along the coast. In 1780, 1781, and 1783 hewas constantly opposed to Patrick Henry in the as-sembly of Virginia, where he believed he could ren-der better service than in congress, but November,1784, he returned to that body, of which he waschosen president by unanimous consent. Under theconstitution he was the first senator from Virginia,and retired from public life Oct. 23, 1793. As anorator he was reckoned inferior only to PatrickHenry, his eloquence having more of persuasion thanfire. He married, early in life. Miss Aylett, the firstof the union being two sons and two her death he married Miss Pinkard, and by thismarriage two daughters were born to them. Hisgrandson, Richard Henry Lee, prepared a life ofhis grandfather, Memoirs of the Life of RichardHenry Lee and His Correspondence (1835). Hedied at Chantilly, Westmoreland county, Va., June19. ut-^^Pa.^^i 160 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA BANCROFT, George, historiaa and secretaryof the navj-, was born in Worcester, Mass., Oct. 3,1800, the sou of Rev. Aaron Bancroft. After a com-mon-school education, which was carefully super-vised by his father, he was prepared for college,which he was ready to enter at the unusually earlyage of ten years. In 1811 he went to the celebjatedPhillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., which for fiftyyears was pi-esided over by Benjamin Abbott, LL. D.,and whei-e Webster, Sparks, and Edward Everettobtained the rudiments of their education. Even atthi
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