[Illustration: JEFFERSON'S HOME AT MONTICELLO.]
[Footnote 3: Monticello (Mon-ti-cel'lo).]
[Footnote 4: See map in paragraph 140.]
185. Thomas Jefferson hears Patrick Henry speak at
Richmond.--Jefferson was educated to be a lawyer; he was not a good
public speaker, but he liked to hear men who were. Just before the
beginning of the Revolutionary War (1775), the people of Virginia
sent men to the city of Richmond to hold a meeting in old St. John's
Church. They met to see what should be done about defending those
rights which the king of England had refused to grant the Americans.
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