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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tatham , William 1752 -1819 (search)
Tatham, William 1752-1819
Author; born in Hutton, England, in 1752; settled in Virginia in 1769; served in the Revolutionary War as a colonel of Virginia cavalry.
After the war he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1784; settled in North Carolina in 1786; was in England in 1796-1805; then returned to the United States.
He was the author of Memorial on the Civil and military government of the Tennessee; An analysis of the State of Virginia; Two tracts relating to the Canal between Norfolk and North Carolina; Plan for Insulating the metropolis by means of a navigable Canal, etc. He died in Richmond, Va., Feb. 22, 1819.