American Revolutionary War History
1776 - In Norfolk, Virginia, Royal Governor John Murray sent a note to William Legge and expressed his "inexpressible mortification" that British Major General Sir Henry Clinton had been ordered to the "insignificant province of North Carolina to the neglect of this the richest and powerfully important province in America."
| "I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion." Patrick Henry |
