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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
onsider an independent government......November, 1785 James Rumsey moves a boat by steam on the Potomac......March, 1786 Lynchburg, on the James River, laid out......1786 Kentucky favors separation at a convention held at Danville....... Sept. 7, 1787 Convention at Richmond on the federal Constitution......June 2, 1788 Patrick Henry, James Monroe, George Mason, etc., oppose it; James Madison, Edmund Pendleton, John Marshall, etc., advocate it. It is ratified, 89 to 79......June 25, 1788 Virginia cedes 40 square miles south of the Potomac to the United States for a federal district......1790 [This land was restored to Virginia by Congress in July, 1846.] Government armory and manufactory located at Harper's Ferry ......March 4, 1798 Patrick Henry dies......June 6, 1799 George Washington dies ......Dec. 14, 1799 Insurrection of the negroes under one Gabriel, slave of a planter near Richmond......1800 John Marshall, of Virginia, appointed chief-justice