Edmond Pendleton was of royalist origin, and lived and died a most uncompromising churchman.

Richard Henry Lee, who moved the Declaration, was of the family of Richard Lee, who had gone to invite Charles II.

to Virginia.

Peyton and Edmund Randolph, president of the First Congress, and attorney-general were of the old royalist family.
Archibald Cary, who threatened to stab Patrick Henry if he were made dictator, was a relative of Lord Falkland and heir apparent at his death to the barony of Hunsdon.

Madison and Monroe were descended from the royalist families--the first from a refugee of 1653, the last from a captain in the army of Charles I., and Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, afterward the leaders of democratic opinion, were of church and king blood, since the father of Henry was a loyal officer who 'drank the king's health at the head of his regiment'; and the mothers of both were Church of England women, descended from royalist families." With this brief digression, we will return to Hugh Price, who, having smoked himself into a calmer state, turned his eyes upon his wife's son with a look designed to be compassionate and said: "Robert, it is the great love I bear you, which causes my anxiety about your welfare.