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Robert Pleasants (1723–1801) was an American educator and abolitionist. He was born in Henrico County, Virginia and became a plantation owner and operator of Robert Pleasants & Co., a consignment tobacco exporting company. [ 1 ]
Robert Williams Daniel, Jr., 3x great-grandson of Edmund Randolph was a Virginia farmer, businessman, teacher, and politician who served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. While in Congress, Daniel was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and various subcommittees.
Mary Randolph (1762–1828), married David Mead Randolph in 1780, she was the author of The Virginia House-Wife (1824) [9] Henry Cary Randolph,(1764-1765), died as an infant; Elizabeth Randolph,(b. 1765), married Robert Pleasants of Filmer about 1785
Important Quakers who lived in the Oregon Hill neighborhood included Robert Pleasants, [5] and later Samuel Pleasants Parsons, who became superintendent of the Virginia Penitentiary, which once stood on Belvidere Street. As General Superintendent of the canal company, Parsons oversaw its expansion to Lynchburg, Virginia. [6]
Whitehouse then gifted Sen. Shelley Capito, R-W.V., chair of the committee overseeing Zeldin’s confirmation hearing, a gavel made in 1956 using wood from the old West Virginia statehouse.
Wednesday night's plane crash outside Washington, D.C., that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skaters, coaches and family members was devastating news for the skating community.It also ...
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on ...
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