. Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . ^>. (&i©m(^E irfTm:! Drawn and Engraved, hyJ BLangacre, from a Portrait m the Amencan Crleaner. GEORGE WYTHE. The representatives of Virginia, in the congress of 1776,have always held a very high rank among the memhers ofthat assembly, remarkable as it was for intelligence, patriot-ism, and prudence. They were seven in number : GeorgeWythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Ben-jamin Harrison, Thomas Nexson, Jr., Francis Light-foot Lee, and Carter Braxton. The following account of Mr. Wythe is much less circum-stantial than
. Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . ^>. (&i©m(^E irfTm:! Drawn and Engraved, hyJ BLangacre, from a Portrait m the Amencan Crleaner. GEORGE WYTHE. The representatives of Virginia, in the congress of 1776,have always held a very high rank among the memhers ofthat assembly, remarkable as it was for intelligence, patriot-ism, and prudence. They were seven in number : GeorgeWythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Ben-jamin Harrison, Thomas Nexson, Jr., Francis Light-foot Lee, and Carter Braxton. The following account of Mr. Wythe is much less circum-stantial than is required by the dignity of the subject. Themost important actions of his public life, are so blended withthe general history of the country, and his name so conjoinedwith the other patriots of the revolution, as to admit verylittle distinct or particular detail. Of his private and do-mestic transactions, he has left himself no remembrance, andhis friends, by whose aid we hoped to supply the deficiency,appear to have postponed this principal object, to indulg
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