As I understand it, Patrick Henry's law practice after the speech was
largely in the defense of criminals.

Also, as a direct descendant of Landon Carter of  Sabine Hall, word in our
family is that our ancestor greatly  resented that Henry had "lifted" alot
of what he said in his famous speech from Landon Carter's own
writings/speeches.  You might want to refer to Landon Carter's diaries etc.
for more info re Henry's leads on the speech.

Patrick Henry may have been boring,  if the above is true, and a
speechifying opportunist,  like an 18th century Geraldo Rivera, but given
the number of children he had there are some who didn't find him quite so
boring!


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Shroeder" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: VA-HIST Digest - 7 Sep 2004 to 10 Sep 2004 (#2004-114)


> In a message dated 9/10/2004 11:59:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> I'd welcome any suggestions of some action that could be added especially
> before working on the speech. Hubby suggested that other than his speech,
> Patrick Henry was a pretty boring guy. Anyone disagree?
>
> Anne
> He defended persecuted Caroline County Baptists in the courts in
Alexandria
> and I have noted that a number of them, including my ancestor, John Acuff,
> located on Leatherwood Creek adjacent to his Franklin County property.  It
seems
> logical that they may have followed him there tho' I have no evidence of
that.
> John
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