After the British Parliament overruled Virginia's Two Penny Act, which had limited the established clergy's salaries, the Reverend James Maury filed suit against the vestry of Louisa County for payment of back wages.

Henry was brought in at the last minute to argue on behalf of Louisa County.

In 1765 Henry was elected from Louisa County for the House of Burgesses, the legislative body of the Virginia colony, to fill a vacated seat in the assembly.

It is bounded on the north by the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, the independent city of Fredericksburg ( all of which were part of the area's early history ), and the counties of Stafford and Culpeper ; on the south by the North Anna River and its impoundment, Lake Anna, and by the counties of Hanover and Louisa ; on the west by Orange County and Culpeper County ; and on the east by Caroline County.

* Louisa County, Virginia-southwest

Louisa County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

St. John's Chapel, near Boswells Tavern, Louisa County, Historic American Buildings Survey

Patrick Henry lived for some time in Louisa County on Roundabout Creek in 1764.

Henry was being mentored at that time by the Louisa County magnate Thomas Johnson the representative of Louisa County in the House of Burgesses.

In 1765, Patrick Henry won his first election to represent Louisa County in the House of Burgesses.

The Virginia Central Railroad was completed through Louisa County in 1838-1840.

For a discussion and additional information on Louisa County history, see: Louisa County Historical Notes.

The quake occurred at an approximate depth of 3. 7 miles and was centered in Louisa County ( location at 37. 944 ° N, 77. 942 ° W ), 5 miles SSW of Mineral and 38 miles NW of Richmond.

* Twin Oaks Community, arguably America's most successful secular commune, is located in Louisa County.

* Patrick Henry, ( 1736-1799 ), at Roundabout Plantation, eight miles southwest of Louisa Court House, Patrick Henry lived from 1765 to 1768, when he sat for Louisa County in the House of Burgesses.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Louisa May Alcott was born on her father's birthday, November 29, 1832, at a half hour past midnight.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

While living in the home, Louisa began writing in earnest and was given her own room.

On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.

Louisa May was not interested initially but agreed to try.

As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

His mother, Maria Louisa Putnam Bellamy, was herself the daughter of a Baptist minister named Benjamin Putnam, a man forced to withdraw from the ministry in Salem, Massachusetts, following objections to him becoming a Freemason.

Queen Margaret University was founded in 1875, as The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson.

Elizabeth Garrett was born on 9 June 1836 in London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett ( 1812 – 1893 ), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell ( 1813 – 1903 ), from London.

While Louisa grieved the loss of her third child, it was not easy to raise their two daughters in the London of that time.

Her daughter Louisa, also a physician, was more active and more militant, spending time in prison in 1912 for her suffrage activities.

Under his reign his wife Louisa was thought to have had the real power, which is why she is placed at the center of the group portrait.

Louisa Adams was with him in Saint Petersburg almost the entire time.

Their daughter, Louisa, was born in 1811 but died in 1812 while the family was in Russia.

Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 ) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Paul Robeson was born in Princeton in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.

William Howard Taft was born into the powerful Taft family September 15, 1857, near Cincinnati, Ohio as the son of Louisa Torrey and Alphonso Taft.

In 1979, Gilbert was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Frederick Sanger.

Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London, the son of Louisa (" Lou " or " Louie ") and Charles Williams, a barber.

After the fall of Napoleon, Napoleon's wife, Maria Louisa, was made Duchess of Parma.

When Maria Louisa died in 1847 he was restored to Parma as Charles II.

The settlement of McCall was established by Thomas and Louisa McCall circa 1889-91.

The oral history of the area places the first residents of Snoqualmie as Edmund and Louisa Kinsey, who established the first hotel, livery, general store, dance hall, post office, and meat market – in addition to helping build the very first church in the town.

The Fort Gay community traces back to 1789, when 11 people established a settlement at the junction of the Tug and Big Sandy rivers, across from what is now Louisa.

The country's first public-school kindergartens were established in Berlin, Ontario in 1882 ( Central School ) and in Toronto in 1883 ( Louisa Street Public School ).

Of Jebb's sisters, Louisa Wilkins established the forerunner of the Women's Land Army during the first world war, and Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton co-founded the children's international development agency Save the Children.

The father established himself as a hosier, and Charles seemed to have benefited from the warm reception that Louisa and her retinue had received from the Danes.

It was established in the village of Choueifat, Lebanon, in 1886 by Tanios Saad and Louisa Procter, an Irish woman who was teaching in the area.