t admits his mastery over language, 13;
at Williamsburg when Henry comes for his bar examination, 22;
his stories of Henry's examination, 23;
says Henry was a barkeeper, 26;
describes him as ignorant of the law and inefficient, 29, 30;
comparison of his legal business with Henry's, 31;
baselessness of his imputations, 32, 33;
describes Henry's maiden speech in legislature against "loan office,"
64;
present at debate over Virginia resolutions, 73, 74;
his conflicting statements for and against Henry's authorship of the
resolves, 84, note;
describes Henry's attainment to leadership, 88;
prominent member of bar, 93;
declines offer of practice of R. C. Nicholas, 94;
asserts that Henry was totally ignorant of law, 94;
with radical group in politics, 95;
furnishes Wirt with statements of Henry's insignificance in Congress,
123;
induces Wirt not to mention his name, 123;
admits Henry's leadership in Virginia, 139;
on committee for arming militia, 151;
on other committees, 152;
says that Henry committed the first overt act of war in Virginia, 155;
says Henry was a silent member of second Continental Congress and glad
to leave, 168, 169;
errors of fact in his statement, 169, 170;
appears as delegate to second Continental Congress, 173;
returns to Virginia convention, 176;
favors a democratic Constitution, 202;
describes plan to establish a dictatorship in Virginia, 224;
intimates that Henry was the proposed tyrant, 225;
induces Girardin to state fact in "History of Virginia," 225;
furnishes the story to Wirt, 226;
unhistorical character of his narrative, 227-229;
himself the recipient as governor of extraordinary powers from
legislature, 228;
probably invents the whole story, 233;
makes no opposition to subsequent reelections of Henry, 235;
his later dislike of Henry, 251;
on committee to notify Henry of his second reelection as governor, 256;
elected governor, 268;
fears of Tucker as to his energy, 269;
continues on friendly terms with Henry while governor, 273;
despondent letter of Henry to, on political decay, 273-275;
reelected, 276;
his flight from Tarleton, 285;
his story of second plan to make Henry dictator, 285;
unhistorical character of the story, 285-287;
his statement flatly contradicted by Edmund Randolph, 286;