(Figure 10) Behind the salon was an ornate two-story octagonal drawing room with two large, square bedrooms in each of the east and west wings, extending from the central portion of the house. ... When Barbour was governor in Richmond and serving in the Senate in Washington, he came home to Barboursville to rest, read books, take care of his farm and his family and to ride his horses. ...
It was a negotiation for land between the United States and France in 1803, in which the U.S. gained approximately 827,000 square miles of land to the west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. ... The Continental Congress, composed of the elected representatives from the thirteen colonies; George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph, gave Thomas Jefferson the illustrious task of drafting the Declaration of Independence. ...
The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. ...
