One man with this surname passed the Pains and Penalties Act to prevent governmental action in what became Lucas County; he harassed surveyors along the Harris Line at Phillip's Corners during the only military action of the bloodless Toledo War.
One man with this surname passed the Pains and Penalties Act to prevent governmental action in what became Lucas County; he harassed surveyors along the Harris Line at Phillip's Corners during the only military action of the bloodless Toledo War. That man was Michigan's first post-statehood governor, and had the first name Stevens. Another member of this family led the official Senate investigation of the Harper's Ferry raid and read the final Senate floor speech of the ailing John C. Calhoun in 1850. Another man with this last name used his brother's servant William Buckland to design his residence Gunston Hall, and headed the committee that drafted the Fairfax Resolves. The previous man was imprisoned with John Slidell at Fort Warren after being removed from the HMS Trent. FTP, name this American family which includes the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, who is the namesake of a certain public university in Virginia.
One man with this surname passed the Pains and Penalties Act to prevent governmental action in what became Lucas County; he harassed surveyors along the Harris Line at Phillip's Corners during the only military action of the bloodless Toledo War.
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