. Historic towns of the Southern States. ght islands, or brawling over broken rocks. Thereare pretty villas and cheerful houses on its streets, andnature smiles upon the country round. The oldest house in Richmond, the OldStone House, situated on Main Street, wasbuilt by Jacob Ege in 1737, and is now usedas a museum filled with relics and curiosities. St. Johns Episcopal Church, which was builtin I 740, is in a state of excellent preservation,and religious services are held in it as theywere in the days before the Revolution. Itwas built under the superintendence of RichardRandolph of Curls Ne
. Historic towns of the Southern States. ght islands, or brawling over broken rocks. Thereare pretty villas and cheerful houses on its streets, andnature smiles upon the country round. The oldest house in Richmond, the OldStone House, situated on Main Street, wasbuilt by Jacob Ege in 1737, and is now usedas a museum filled with relics and curiosities. St. Johns Episcopal Church, which was builtin I 740, is in a state of excellent preservation,and religious services are held in it as theywere in the days before the Revolution. Itwas built under the superintendence of RichardRandolph of Curls Neck, the son of WilliamRandolph of Turkey Island and Jane Boiling,the great-great-granddaughter of its graveyard are many quaint old tomb-stones—the oldest, that of the Rev. Robert i6o Richmond on the James Rose, is dated 1751. The learned and ac-complished George Wythe, one of the signersof the Declaration of Independence, and manyother famous sons of Virginia lie buried in thegraveyard. The most interesting event in the. OLD STONE HOUSE, BUILT IN 1737. history of the Church, and one with which will be forever linked, was the meetingwithin its walls of the famous Virginia Con-vention of March 20, 1775. A few monthsafter the adjournment of the first ContinentalConeress, this convention met to hear a re-port of its proceedings, and to deliberate onthe political situation. The bitter hostility Richmond on the James i6i to the patriots on the part of Lord Dun-more made it unsafe for them to meet inWilHamsburg, the capital of the colony, andthe importance and sacredness of the causemade it appropriate to meet in the sanctuaryof God, to whom they humbly looked forguidance on their sea of troubles. Thevestry recognized this, and offered to the con-vention this, the largest building in the was during the session of this conventionthat Patrick Henry made his famous speech,in which he proclaimed the folly of lono-er ex-pecting peace, and the necessity of
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