. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ir annual invitation to prepare such a discourse has been by bothbodies extended to the same individual. The task is under-taken with diffidence and a sense of apprehension that amidthe multiplicity of other engagements its fulfillment mayfail in doing justice to the subject of this memoir. Thomas Ruffin, the eldest child of his parents, was bornat Newington, the residence of his maternal grandfather,Thomas Roane, in the county of King and Queen, in Virginia,on the 17th of November, 1787. His father, Sterling Ruffin, Esquire, was a planter
. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ir annual invitation to prepare such a discourse has been by bothbodies extended to the same individual. The task is under-taken with diffidence and a sense of apprehension that amidthe multiplicity of other engagements its fulfillment mayfail in doing justice to the subject of this memoir. Thomas Ruffin, the eldest child of his parents, was bornat Newington, the residence of his maternal grandfather,Thomas Roane, in the county of King and Queen, in Virginia,on the 17th of November, 1787. His father, Sterling Ruffin, Esquire, was a planter in thoneighboring county of Essex, who subsequently transferredhis residence to North Carolina, and died in the county ofCaswell. Ardent in his religious sentiments, and longattached to the Methodist Episcopal Church, he very late inlife entered the ministry, and was for a few years prior to hisdeath a preacher in that denomination. His mother, Alice Roane, was of a family much distin-guished in Virginia by the public service of many of its. THOMAS RUFFIN. THOMAS RUFFIX. 285 members, and was herself first cousin of Spencer Koane, theChief Justice of that State, in the past generation, whosejudicial course, connected as it was with questions of diffi-culty and importance in constitutional law, gave him highprofessional, as well as political, distinction; but it may wellbe doubted whether, in all that constitutes a great lawyer,he had preeminence over the subject of our present sketch,his junior kinsman in North Carolina, then but rising intofame, and destined to fill the like office in his own State. His father, though not affluent, had a respectable fortune,and sought for the son the best means of education. Hisearly boyhood was passed on the farm in Essex, and in atten-dance on the schools of the vicinity. Thence, at a suitableage, he was sent to a classical academy in the beautiful andhealthful village of Warrenton, in North Carolina, then underthe management of Mr. Marcus Ge
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