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of William and Mary, appointed in 1776. At one time he was urged to take orders in the church, his friends desiring that he . should become the first bishop of Virginia. He was the author of "Addresses to the People/* (1796 and 1799). He died in Rich- mond. October 11. 1808.

Fage, Mann, was born at "Rose well/' Gloucester county, about 1749, eldest son of Mann and Ann Corbin (Tayloe) Page, grandi^on of Mann and Judith (Carter) I'age, and great-grandson of the Hon. Mat- thew and Mary (Mann) Page, and great- great-grandson of Colonel John and Alice (Luckin) Paj^^e. lie was a half-brother of Governor John Page. He was graduated at the College oi William and Mary; removed lo Spottsylvania county, and was a delegate to the Continental Congress m 1777, with Thomas JefTers«»n. Thomas Nelson and George Wythe. He was married, in 1776, to Mary, daughter of John Tayloe,. of Fred- ericksburg. He died at "Mansfield." Spot- sylvania county, in 1781.

Parker, Richard, son of Dr. Alexander Parker, of E^sex county, was born in 1732, was a lawyer, signed the Northern Neck .Association in I/C16, was a member of the A\ estmoreland county committee of safety in 1775; made judge of the general court in 17S5. and held office till his death in 1815. He married Mary Beale, daughter of Cap- tain William Ptcale. of Richmond county, and .\nne Harwar, his wife, and was father of Richard Parker, colonel of the First Vir- ginia Regiment, and was killed at Charles- ton in 1780, of Alexander Parker, who was a captain in the revolution, and afterwards a general in the state militia, and of William Harwar Parker, an officer in the Virginia

navy during the revolution, which last was father of Richard Elliot Parker, of Clarke county. X'irginia, a senator of the United States.

Pendleton, Edmund, born in Caroline county. X'irginia. September 9, 1721 : son of Henry Pendleton, and grandson of Philip and Isabella (Hurt) Pendleton. Philip Pendleton emigrated from England in 1(^74, settled in X'irginia. and was buried in King and ^>ueen county. Edmund Pendleton re- ceived training in private schools, and early in life became assistant to the clerk of Caro- hne county, under whom he read law. He was licensed to practice law in 1744, became justice of the peace in 1751, and entered the X'irginia house of burgesses, in 1752, where he !)ecame at once one of the leading mem- bers. He declared the Stamp Act uncon- stitutional, and that it did not bind the in- habitants of Virginia ; was a member of the committee of correspondence in 1773. and of the colonial convention of 1774. resulting from the I'ostcn port-bill, of which conven- tion he was elected president. He was a delegate to the first Continental Congress, September 5. 1774. to October 26, 1774. After the death of Peyton Randolph, he suc- cieded him in all the first offices of state. He was president of the convention of De- cember I. 1775, and of May, 1776, and was also president of the committee of safety. He wrote the resolutions of the Virginia convention of May, 1776, favoring a Declar- ation of Independence, and proposing a state constitution. As head of the committee of safety, he had control of the militia and of the foreign correspondence of Virginia. When the state government was organized, he was elected speaker of the house of dele-

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