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draft bill of rights and constitution, 200; on committee to notify Henry of his election as governor, 212. Dresser, Rev. Charles, on Henry's religious habits, 392. Duane, James, member of first Continental Congress, 108; moves a committee to prepare regulations for voting, 108; favors Galloway's plan of home rule, 115; on committee of second Continental Congress, 172. 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; i
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