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  2. Library of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and is located at 800 East Broad Street, two blocks from the Virginia State Capitol building. It was formerly known as the Virginia State Library and as the Virginia State Library and Archives.

  3. William Cole (burgess) - Wikipedia

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    Born to the former Martha Lear in 1692, he was descended from the First Families of Virginia.Both his father William Cole and his maternal grandfather John Lear were on the Virginia Governor's Council (sometimes known as the Council of State).

  4. Patrick Henry Building - Wikipedia

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    The Patrick Henry Building is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia.Formerly designated simply as the Old State Library or the Virginia State Library and Archives and Virginia Supreme Court, it was renovated, then rededicated and renamed for the Founding Father and former Virginia Governor Patrick Henry on June 13, 2005.

  5. Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library - Wikipedia

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    The Polar Express in front of the Village in the model train layout at the Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library. The Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library is the county museum and genealogical library for Bedford County, Virginia It was started in 1932 by the General William R. Terry chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Peaks of Otter chapter of the National Society ...

  6. Samuel Mathews (colonial Virginia governor) - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Mathews (Jr.) was the elder son of Samuel Matthews (Sr.) (1572-1657) and Frances Grevill West Peirsey Mathews (1590-1635). He was born at his father's plantation Mathews Manor, (later known as Denbigh), which was located on the north side of the James River at the confluence of the Warwick River and Deep Creek (about 2 miles north of Blunt Poynt) in the area which later became Warwick ...

  7. Richard Bland - Wikipedia

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    [2] [15] Bland owned an extensive library for his time, much of which was acquired after his death by Jefferson and his nephew-in-law St. George Tucker, and made its way to the Library of Congress as part of Jefferson's personal library donation in 1815. [2] Virginia's Bland County and Richard Bland College, the junior college of the College of ...

  8. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]

  9. John West (colonel) - Wikipedia

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    John West was born on June 6, 1632, at Bellfield Plantation, York River, Virginia. He was the child of Captain John West, Virginia Governor and his wife Anne Percy, daughter of George Percy and Anne Floyd. His father received an extra land grant because John was the first child of English parents born in the York River area.

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