Note 14 — Chapter I
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Hanover Court House, 20 miles from Richmond, 102 miles from Washington, is situated several miles from the river.
It has two very large and commodious jails (!!), one tavern, one store, one boot and shoe shop, one blacksmith-shop. It has a population of about 50. One attorney lives there.—"Martin's Gazetteer", 1835.
It has a population of 58 to-day.
Hanover Court House where Patrick Henry figured in early life. Here many of his speeches were delivered. Here he won his first case, "The Parson's Cause."