... County, Virginia. His parents were John and Sarah Winston Henry. He spent the early years of his life growing up on a tobacco plantation with his parents in Virginia. For a short while in his early childhood, Henry attended public school. After that he was tutored by his father, ... John Henry, a surveyor and county justice. Later in his life as a young man, Henry entered into a career of importing and exporting ... caused a chain reaction that deeply affected opinion in other colonies. Henry soon became a leading political figure in Virginia. In 1773, together with Thomas Jefferson and...

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