of John Adams_, ix. 387.

[242] John Adams's pamphlet is given in his _Works_, iv. 189-200.

[243] The pamphlet is given in 4 _Am. Arch._ vi. 748-754.

[244] See the unfavorable comment of Rives, _Life and Times of
Madison_, i. 147, 148.

[245] Probably Thomas Ludwell Lee.

[246] _S. Lit. Messenger_ for 1842. Reprinted in Campbell, _Hist. Va._
647.

[247] _Works of John Adams_, iv. 201, 202.

[248] _Works of John Adams_, ix. 386-388.

[249] Kate Mason Rowland, _Life of Mason_, i. 228-241.

[250] Edmund Randolph, MS. _Hist. Va._ See, also, W. W. Henry, _Life
of P. Henry_, i. 422-436.

[251] Edmund Randolph, MS. _Hist. Va._ See, also, W. W. Henry, _Life
of P. Henry_, i. 422-436.

[252] 4 _Am. Arch._ vi. 1582.

[253] _Am. Arch._ vi. 1598-1601, note.

[254] 4 _Am. Arch._ vi. 1129, 1130.

CHAPTER XIII

FIRST GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA

On Friday, the 5th of July, 1776, Patrick Henry took the oath of
office,[255] and entered upon his duties as governor of the
commonwealth of Virginia. The salary attached to the position was
fixed at one thousand pounds sterling for the year; and the governor
was invited to take up his residence in the palace at Williamsburg. No
one had resided in the palace since Lord Dunmore had fled from it; and
the people of Virginia could hardly fail to note the poetic
retribution whereby the very man whom, fourteen months before, Lord
Dunmore had contemptuously denounced as "a certain Patrick Henry of
Hanover County," should now become Lord Dunmore's immediate successor
in that mansion of state, and should be able, if he chose, to write
proclamations against Lord Dunmore upon the same desk on which Lord
Dunmore had so recently written the proclamation against himself.

Among the first to bring their congratulations to the new governor,
were his devoted friends, the first and second regiments of Virginia,
who told him that they viewed "with the sincerest sentiments of
respect and joy" his accession to the highest office in the State, and
who gave to him likewise this affectionate assurance: "our hearts are
willing, and arms ready, to maintain your authority as chief
magistrate."[256] On the 29th of July, the erratic General Charles
Lee, who was then in Charleston, sent on his congratulations in a
letter amusing for its tart cordiality and its peppery playfulness:--

"I most sincerely congratulate you on the noble conduct of
your countrymen; and I congratula