House of Burgesses
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The House of Burgesses was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the United States in the Colony of Virginia in what was then Br
1851 painting of Patrick Henry making a speech in the house on March 23, 1775
House of Burgesses in the Capitol Williamsburg James City County Virginia by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Depiction of the First Legislative Assembly in English America, 1619
Second Capitol at Williamsburg (viewed from Duke of Gloucester Street)
Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention : "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth po
Portrait by George Bagby Matthews after Thomas Sully, c. 1891
View of Rural Plains near Totopotomoy Creek in Virginia. Henry was reportedly married to Sarah Shelton in the parlor.
Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson's Cause (George Cooke, c. 1834)