Autograph endorsement, signed “Edm: Randolph,” eight total pages, 6.5 x 8.5, June 18, 1782. Deposition made by Patrick Henry as a defendant in a case "exhibited against him and others by Thomas Lomax," in which Henry "admits it to be true that the said complainant was justly and legally entitled to the quantity of land on Leatherwood creek stated in the said bill, viz, four fifth parts of the tract containing sixteen thousand, six hundred and fifty acres" and further notes that "he has removed his family and servants…at great trouble and expences settled several plantations thereon and hopes that this honorable court will confirm his purchase of the said undivided three fifth parts of the said 16,650 acres of land." At the conclusion, Randolph writes, in part: "Sworn to before me this 18th day of June 1782 in due and usual form, I being a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid." Sheets are affixed by string in the upper left corner. In very good to fine condition, with scattered toning and foxing, and Patrick Henry's signature removed from the final page above Randolph's endorsement. In 1779, Henry moved to a brick home on Leatherwood plantation, a sprawling 10,000-acre estate jointly owned with his first cousin, Ann Wilson Carr, and her husband, George Waller. While residing there, Henry served in the Virginia General Assembly from 1780 to 1784, eventually moving to Chesterfield County in November 1784 when he was elected to his second term as the governor of Virginia.
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