Il est marié avec Margaret Beall.
Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1775 à Stratford Hall, Westmoreland, Virginia, United States, il avait 21 ans.
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OBITUARY Martha Edwards, after a union of more than fifty years, preceded him to the grave about three months before. They both resigned this world with that perfect composure and full assurance of future happiness, which religion can inspire, and left behind them a numerous and respectable family of children and their descendants, to imitate their virtues and to deplore their loss.ive of Stafford County in Virginia; and before he came of age, he intermarried with Margaret, the daughter of Ninian Beall, of Montgomery County, Maryland, and resided, for nearly twenty-five years on his farm of Mount Pleasant, about nine miles above the court house of that county. His pursuits were those of agriculture and merchandize, which he conducted with industry and irreproachable integrity.ature's great men; and she had stamped this character most strikingly on his countenance and person. He was large and well-formed; his countenance strongly marked with intelligence and benevolence; his step and movements uncommonly dignified and commanding; and in his whole action there was an easy, unaffected gracefulness, which proclaimed the gentleman and the man of feeling, in a manner not to be mistaken.o man dreampt of using an irreverent liberty, or indulging in a thoughtless levity in his presence. him. He had a manly and melodious voice, a natural fluency and eloquence that never hesitated, the most striking originality and vigor of thought, the aptest and happiest illustrations drawn from the objects of nature around him, and an accuracy and integrity of judgment which have never been surpassed on the objects that called for his decision. ation by careful reading and had acquired a correct style, which was yet marked with the native strength and originality of his thoughts, and he conversed with great power, even on the subjects of literature, taste and science; and many have been the flippant scholars and collegians, who, after the interchange of a few remarks have felt themselves rebuked by his superior mind, and learned to listen with instinctive reverence and delight .th whom he always took pleasure in conversing, he was one of the most instructive companions whom the kindness of Providence could have sent them. rusive or revolting; in his religion and in his domestic circle he would often indulge himself with great playfulness, and with the most successful humor; yet no occasion was ever lost in instilling into them pure and honorable and lofty sentiments and principles, and kindling in them the flame of patriotic and virtuous emulation, holding up to them with great eloquence the example of ancient patriots, orators, and statesmen, with which he was so much enamored, as if he were still in his youth.represented the county of Montgomery for several years in the State Legislature; was a member of the State Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution; and, afterwards, a member of Congress for the district in which he lived. arely, and then on local subjects, when forced forward by a high sense of duty ; yet on one of these occasions in the Assembly of Maryland, with so much force did he strike the House, that the late Samuel Chase, and several others of the most competent judges of eloquence in that body, crossed the floor of the House to congratulate him, and to assure him that it rested with himself to become one of the most distinguished speakers of the age. forts, has now passed away to be forgotten by the world. nterpart of so extraordinary a man. They were both an honor to their species, ornaments to the church to which they belonged, and are now amongst the spirits of the blessed who surround the Throne on High. Co, 1870. Print.
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