From the Virginia Colony:
Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
They are the only two signers, who were brothers.
Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary soldier and hero, nephew of Richard andFrancis Lee, noted above.
Patrick Henry
George Wythe
James Madison
Peyton Randolph
Sir William Berkeley
George Mason
John Rolf
John Smith
Robert King Clark
George Rogers Clark
Martha Washington
Edmund Randolph
Pocahontas
Joseph Ball, father of Mary Ball (George Washingtons mother)
Augustus Washington
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Slavery provided labor for the developing textile industries in the southern colonies.
large plantations
The early settlers settled in the southern colonies since there many riches associated with these colonies. One of the man cash crops in the area was tobacco and the settlers came here for economic gains.
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