. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. the Monitors Letters, written in the year 1769, whichhave been mentioned, he published Extracts from a Letter to Con-gress, in answer to a Libel by Silas Deane, 1780; and Ob-servations on Certain Commercial Transactions in France, laidbefore Congress 1780. Bushrod Washington was born in this county, and educated atWilliam and Mary. He studied law in Philadelphia, and com-menced its practice with great success in this county. He was amember of the House of Delegates in 1781. He afterw
. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. the Monitors Letters, written in the year 1769, whichhave been mentioned, he published Extracts from a Letter to Con-gress, in answer to a Libel by Silas Deane, 1780; and Ob-servations on Certain Commercial Transactions in France, laidbefore Congress 1780. Bushrod Washington was born in this county, and educated atWilliam and Mary. He studied law in Philadelphia, and com-menced its practice with great success in this county. He was amember of the House of Delegates in 1781. He afterwards re-moved to Alexandria, and thence to Eichmond, where he publishedtwo volumes of the decisions of the supreme court of Virginia. Hewas appointed, in 1798, an associate-justice of the supreme courtof the United States, and continued to hold this situation until hisdeath, in November, 1829. He was the favorite nephew of GeneralWashington, and was the devisee of Mount Vernon. He was notedfor sound judgment, rigid integrity^ and unpretending manners.—Howes History of Virginia, pp. LiiE Famii,^- 1. R. E. Lee 2. Richard Lee 3. Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee 4. Chas. Lee 5. Smith Lee Richard Henry LeeThomas LeeFrancis Lightfoot LheWm. LeeArthlr Lee PART II. VIII. Westmoreland, the Plant-bed of an Ancient Civil-ization is Still the Cradle of the New—HerEfficient Board of Supervisors—The Sand-Clay System of Good Roads. Westmoreland County of To-day (1912). The New Westmoreland,Her Present Conditions, Her Progress, Her Climate andSoil. Her Agricultural, Indmtrial, and Commercial Re-sources and Assets. Her Efficient Board of SupervisorsStanding for the Economy of Good Roads—the Sloganof Common Sense. The future historian will write the glorious history of West-moreland. This is no history—only a brief chapter, Job said:Behold my desire is that mine adversary had written a , in former days, passed for as sore an evil as a good man couldthink of wishing to h
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