by the next day and seeing several people out in the yard, he inquired, "At what time did Captain Jo. die last night?" He was told that Mr. Fowlkes was much better after Dr. Leftridge came in the night from "Miller Hill," where he then lived, and doctored him. Leftridge's family removed to the West somewhere.

BENJAMIN WATKINS LEIGH.

Born in 1781 in Chesterfield County. His father, who died in Leigh's infancy, was a minister of the Episcopal Church.

He attended school under the Rev. Needler Robinson, completing his education at William and Mary College, where he stood high. He was in the class with Chapman Johnson, Henry St. George Tucker and Robert Stanard. These great lawyers succeeded Marshall and Wickham at the head of the profession. Chapman Johnson and Leigh were great friends.

Leigh escaped in early days the infidelity which obtained in circles of fashion in his section of the Virginia of that date.

He was a man of very striking and handsome appearance. The breaking of a leg in early life gave a limp to his walk, which was, nevertheless, most graceful. A thick-soled shoe partly compensated the difference in the length of his limbs. He had black hair and very effeminate features, was small in statue, and had a hand that would have made a study for Kneller.

His first law case was at Petersburg in defense of a boy who had slain his father for beating his mother. Leigh won a great

success.

He was the author of papers under the name of Algernon Sidney, in the Richmond Enquirer, about 1819, on the execution by Andrew Jackson of Arbuthnot and Ambrister. See Richmond Enquirer, December 22, 1818.

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For his refusal to take the anti-duelling oath, the Court of Appeals attempted in 1810 to exclude him from the bar upon the ground that as a lawyer he was an officer of the court and commonwealth and hence bound to take the official oath. Leigh's argument against this exactment, upon the ground that a lawyer is not an officer of the court, was very able and full, leading the court to set aside the oath and admit him.

Leigh was the compiler of the Virginia Code of 1819.

With the exception of John Randolph, he was the most remarked man in the Constitutional Convention of 1829-30. Instead of Giles, who was too old and feeble to take his wonted place, Leigh was selected to lead the eastern side of the Convention in that "great battle of the giants."

He was a close friend of General Winfield Scott.

Leigh was sent to Kentucky to arbitrate the celebrated Virginia-Kentucky dispute.22 Clay and Bibb represented the latter. State.

22In regard to military land claims.

Leigh went as mediator to South Carolina in 1833, at the time of the nullification controversy.

He served in the Legislature. Was United States senator. Author of an able paper on the "Right of Instruction." (See Richmond Enquirer, February 1, 1812) In favor of the proposition.23

There is a eulogy of him in the Southern Literary Messenger of February 1851, by William H. McFarland.

PHIL. T. SOUTHALL.

In the Richmond Enquirer, June 15, 1814, Dr. Phil. T. Southall in a card explains his absence from professional duties and states that he has returned to make Cumberland County (at Raine's Tavern) his home. He promises advice and medicine free to those unable to pay for services.

He was the father of Dr. Joseph Southall, of Amelia.

RICHARD KIDDER MEADE.

Richard Kidder Meade, of Petersburg, succeeded George C. Dromgoole in Congress. He was a good-looking man of rather dark complexion and weighed about two hundred pounds; very courtly in manner and conversation but not upon the whole so good a speaker as talker.

POLITICAL NOTES.

Memoranda of the poll returned by the sheriffs for the Congressional election in Brunswick district, July 26, 1790.

Another poll for same office, in September 1790, and between same candidates in the whole district: Giles 2097, Edmunds 1435; 662 majority for Giles.

231. e., the right of a Legislature to instruct the U. S. Senators of its State.

Nottoway delegates 1811 (April election): Peter Randolph and Richard Epes.

Joseph Goodwyn elected State senator from the district of Dinwiddie, etc., April 1812.

Corresponding Committee for the Madison electoral ticket in 1812 for Nottoway County were: Wm. C. Greenhill, Edward Bland, Richard Epes, John D. Royal, Tyree G. Bacon, John Hewitt, Edmund Irby.

Presidential Election, 1812: Madison & Ward, 150; King, 1. In another report, later, Nottoway is quoted, 159 for Madison and 0 for King.

House of Delegates, election, April, 1814: Tyree G. Bacon and Thomas Wells [for Nottoway Co.]

Richmond Enquirer, April 2, 1819, quotes notice from National Intelligencer of the April Congressional elections without correction; one clause is this: "In the Dinwiddie district, the reelection of John Pegram is opposed by Dr. J. Jones, both of same politics." This of course is wrong.

Richmond Enquirer, April 6, 1819, records under Virginia elections: Nottoway, Jones 243, Pegram 13.

Richmond Enquirer, April 9, 1819, records Nottoway, Jones 246, Pegram 13; Jones's majority, 233. Dr. Jones ran against General Pegram last election and Nottoway voted less than this time for him. The message states that in the last election the vote was 166 to 7, 159 majority for Jones.

Richmond Enquirer, April 20, 1819, speaks of that election of 1819 as a very quiet and smooth one in Virginia.

Same contest: Prince George County, Dr. Jones 162, Pegram 65. Jones went to Greensville with 390 majority. Greensville gave Dr. Jones 86, Gen. Pegram 105. Dr Jones came to Petersburg with a majority of 301. In Petersburg Jones received 87 votes, Pegram 50. (Not all, I reckon).

Richmond Enquirer, April 23, May 4, 1819; Dr. Jones elected in place of General Pegram by 76 majority.

The Congress of 1819: John Randolph returns, beating Archibald Austin in the poll. Halifax, Geo. Tucker, place of Wm. J. Lewis (declined). Mecklenburg, Mark Alexander, in place of Thomas M. Nelson.

Among the Presidential electors, 1820, on the Republican ticket (Monroe and Tompkins) are found the names of

Norfolk

Surry

Dinwiddie

Greensville

Pr. Edward

Powhatan

Buckingham

William Brockenborough Richmond

(The above taken from the Petersburg Republican, 1820, by F. R. Lassister.)

Petersburg Republican, April 13, 1821, states Knight and Ward elected to House of Delegates, Nottoway. April election, 1821: Richmond Enquirer, April 13, Dr. James Jones, of Nottoway, is reelected to Congress without opposition.

Richmond Enquirer, July 20, 1821: Fourth of July celebrated at a spring near Miller's Tavern (Prince Edward Co.). The Declaration of Independence read by William Branch, Jr. Present, also, Col. Samuel D. Burke, Col. John H. Knight, Dr. William J. Dupuy, John Foster, John M. Ligon. Col. Burke's toast: "The members of the Virginia Legislature, may they have longer heads and shorter tongues."

A legislative caucus convened in the House of Delegates, Feb. 21, 1824, to frame an electoral ticket in favor of William H. Crawford for President. In the 7th (Amelia, Nottoway, etc.) Dr. James Jones of Nottoway, Mark Alexander of Mecklenburg. The Richmond Enquirer supported Crawford. Also as members of the Corresponding Committee of Nottoway, Richard Jones (brother of Dr. Jones), Tyree G. Bacon, Richard Epes, Samuel Morgan, John H. Knight, Austin Watkins, Edmund Wills.

Richmond Enquirer, March 12, 1824: Nottoway, Amelia, Powhatan, Chesterfield, Cumberland composed the 7th congressional district (W. S. Archer) .24

Richmond Enquirer, April 13, 1827, records: House of Delegates, 1826-27, H. R. Anderson, Capt. Nathan Ward. House of Delegates, 1827-8, James Jones, 146; H. R. Anderson, 132; John H. Knight, 122; Samuel G. Williams, 48. Jones and Anderson elected.

Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 15, 1827: A legislative caucus favorable to the formation of a Jackson electoral ticket was held in the Capitol and adjourned until January 14, 1828. Dr. Jones, of Nottoway, attended.

Richmond Enquirer, Jan. 17, 1828: Legislative convention reconvened Jan. 14 and nominated Jackson and Calhoun. The electoral ticket held Dr. Jones elector for the 6th district.

In this campaign, 1828, the corresponding committees for Jackson's ticket included Dr. A. A. Campbell, Capt. Richard Jones, Capt. Nathan Ward, Archer Robertson, John H. Knight, John P. Dupuy, William Taylor Wills, L. Jones, Samuel B. Jeter, Edmund Irby, Austin Watkins, Edward Bland.

Richmond Enquirer, April 11, 1828: Elections for House of Delegates annually; Nottoway, April 1828, James Jones and H. R. Anderson. For Convention 1829-30, 8 for and 83 against.

In the presidential election of 1828, Nov. 3, Dr. Jones, the Jackson elector, carried Nottoway by 208 to 2 for Adams.

24 W. S. Archer served as a Representative in Congress from January 18, 1820, to March 3, 1835.

Richmond Enquirer, April 10, 1829, gives vote of Nottoway for House of Delegates: Dr. A. A. Campbell, 88; Dr. Austin Watkins, 79; A. Hatchett, 64.

Richmond Enquirer, March 17, 1832: Legislative caucus met in this month in the Capitol favourable to Gen. Jackson. They declined to make a specific nomination for Vice-President. The Jackson electoral ticket consisted among others, in 1832, of James Jones of Nottoway and Archibald Austin of Buckingham. Dr. Jones was elector of 3rd. district this time. He was nominated .by Mr. Old. There were twenty-three electors this year, twentytwo elected by the people and the twenty-third appointed by the Legislature.

In this campaign the Corresponding Committee for Nottoway was: Lewis Jones, Capt. Richard Jones, Dr. A. A. Campbell, Bartelote P. Todd, Col. Samuel B. Jeter, Col. John H. Knight, John P. Dupuy, Col. E. T. Jeffries, Maj. H. R. Anderson, Dr. Austin Watkins, Anthony Webster, Col. Travis H. Epes, William B. Green, Capt. William B. Irby, Peter Epes, Robert Fitzgerald, Jr., Col. Wm. C. Greenhill, Capt. P. O. Lipscomb, George N. Seay, John Fitzgerald, William Thomas, John W. Connelly, Nathan Ward, Maloye W. Robertson, Asa Hawkes, Nathan H. Jones, Frank L. Moseley, Robert H. Booth, William Taylor Wills, William B. Wilson. In this campaign a great effort was made in Virginia to pledge the Jackson electors to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President. They, however, remained uncommitted, to cast their ballot for whom it might be most judicious.

The electoral ticket of Jackson was elected. It appears that Nottoway cast 200 votes for "Old Hickory" and none for Clay.

Nottoway County Republican Campaign Committee elected at Richmond convention which nominated Van Buren, Feb. 22, 1840: Dr. Campbell, Robert Fitzgerald, Timothy Wortham, William A. Scott, Wm. B. Smith, Wm. Thomas, Thomas Howson, B. W. Fitzgerald, Putnam Stith, James J. Verser, Thomas Dickinson, W. W. and Albert A. Bass, Col. John H. Knight, Col. Edward T. Jeffries, Maj. Wm. C. Knight, George W. Oliver, Chas. H. Carter, Sam Cary, Jas. M. Taylor, Paschal J. Fowlkes, Sharpe Carter, Grief T. Cralle, Wm. R. Jennings, Col. Sam B. Jeter, John Wilson, Jr., John Bland, Williamson Tucker, Wm. Atkins, Wm. W. Webster, Thomas Dean, Wm. B. Irby, Archer Worsham, George A. Cralle, Capt. Thomas Jackson, Capt. Thomas Jones, Asa Crenshaw, George Prosize, William Watkins, Daniel J. Jackson, Capt. Nathan Ward, Robert W. Roberts, B. C. Jones, R. T. Ward, John P. Dupuy, George C. Ingram, Stith A. Ingram, Anderson J. Fowlkes, Peter J. Grigg, George N. Seay, Williamson Dickinson, Col. Tilman E. Jeter, Thomas Nelson, Col. William Verser, Wm. Perkinson.

In the vote of April, 1840, for House of Delegates, in Nottoway, Booth was the Whig candidate and William Fitzgerald the Democrat. There were upwards of 400 votes cast. On the face.