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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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bly, Jefferson met with thosediscontented members who called for a generalcongress of the colonies and asked the freehold-ers of Virginia for a convention to consider thestate of the colony. To this convention Jeffer-son was returned by the people of Albemarle.The convention of 1774 was the first extra-legalassembly to meet in Virginia. Jefferson wasunable to be present, having been taken ill onhis way to Williamsburg. However, his influ-ence was felt through a document called TheSummary View of the Rights of British Amer-ica, which was intended to be a series of in-structions to the Virginia delegates to the FirstContinental Congress. The instrument markedhim as a revolutionist, and as an advocate of in-dependence from England, for in it he distinctlyclaimed that the colonies had a right to governthemselves without interference from the Eng-lish Parliament. Hi? views were too radicalfor the Virginia convention to give them itsofficial stamp. Jefferson was also elected a member of the
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JEFFERSON convention of 1775, which met at St. JohnsChurch, Richmond, and when Patrick Henry byhis eloquence earned the colon) into open re-bellion against the mother country, Jeffersonu.is appointed .1 membei ol the committee todevise a plan for organizing the militia of thecolony. Shortly after tins he became a memberof the Second Continental Congress, When heentered that body, he was .*- yens of age, beingone of the youngest three members. Here hewas placed on such important committees asthose which drafted a paper to explain the re-bellious attitude of Massachusetts at Lexingtonand Concord, and to reply to Lord Norths Con-ciliatory Policy. On each committee heshowed such a strong republican tendency thathis suggestions were not accepted. The mem-bers of the Continental Congress of 1775 werenot far-sighted enough to see that independencewas the only course. Finally, in the spring of1776, there came to the Virginia members ofCon

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