Series: 15 ZZ (Volume 15)
Scope and Content Note: A small group of original manuscripts, 1765-1801. Fifteen pieces, 1765-1791, were written and/or signed by Patrick Henry. The majority are letters to William Fleming and Joseph Martin, with two to Edward Hand and one to John Fontaine. In topic they pertain to a scheme for land settlement near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers (1767), to frontier defense (1777-1778) - Hand's expedition, injustices against the Indians, approval of the letter to the Shawnee by Fleming and William Preston-to the care of William Christian's children and Negroes after the death of Mrs. Christian, Henry's sister (1790), and to a land matter (1791). A printed circular (1777) calling attention to a resolution of the general assembly on the clothing of Virginia soldiers was issued and signed by Governor Henry. Also found in the volume are one letter (1765) written by William Christian discussing Indian affairs and counterfeiters, and one (1801) by James Monroe concerning the determination of the Virginia-Tennessee boundary line.