Dunmore, Lord, dissolves House of Burgesses for protesting against
Boston Port Bill, 97;
makes a campaign against Indians, 131;
reports to home government the military preparations of Virginia, 133;
sends force to seize gunpowder, 156;
alarmed at advance of Henry's force, 160;
offers to pay for gunpowder, 160;
issues a proclamation against Henry, 162, 163;
suspected of intention to arrest him, 166;
describes to General Howe his operations against rebels, 178, 179;
his palace occupied by Henry, 214.
Education in Virginia, 5.
Ellsworth, Oliver, appointed envoy to France, 412.
Episcopal Church, established in Virginia, 37;
its increasing unpopularity, 43, 57;
virtually disestablished by declaration of rights, 209;
its incorporation proposed by Henry, 294;
Henry a member of, 391, 392.
Fauquier, Governor Francis, condemns Henry's speech against the Stamp
Act, 86.
Federalist party, at first viewed with suspicion by Henry, 397;
later sympathized with by him, 398, 399;
sincerity of its leaders in offering Henry office questioned by
Jefferson, 404;
its folly in passing alien and sedition acts, 408.
Fleming, John, Henry's assistant in introducing the Virginia Resolves,
69.
Fontaine, Edward, gives Roane's description of Henry's speech for
organizing militia, 146, 150.
Fontaine, Mrs. Martha, with Henry in last illness, 421.
Fontaine, Colonel Patrick Henry, statement as to Henry's classical
training, 15;
finds his examinations rigorous, 16;
tells story of his grandfather's conversation in Latin with a French
visitor, 16, 17;
describes his grandfather's preparation in British debts case, 361;
describes his abstemiousness, 386.
Ford, John, defended by Henry in a murder case, 374, 375.
France, alliance with desired by Henry as preliminary to declaring
independence, 194, 198, 199;
discussed by Charles Lee, 195;
adherence to, advocated strongly by Henry, 254, 255;
infidelity of, combated by Henry, 393;
its quarrel with United States during Adams's administration, 407-412;
its conduct toward Marshall, Pinckney, and Gerry condemned by Henry,
409, 410;
commission to, nominated by Adams, 412.
Franklin, Benjamin, on committee with Henry in second Continental
Congress, 174, 175.
Frazer, ----, recommended to Washington by Henry, 175.
Free trade, advocated by Henry, 291, 292.
French Revolution, effect of its excesses on Henry and others, 398;
its infidelity condemned by Henry, 409.
Gadsden, Christopher, at Continental Congress, meets John Adams, 104,
105;
a member of Congress, 108;
in debate on manner of voting, 112;
on gunpowder committee of second Continental Congress, 175.
Gage, General Thomas, describes the exciting effect of the Virginia
Resolves over the continent, 82.
Gallatin, Albert, his alleged Latin conversation with Henry, 16, 17.
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