Born in King William County, Virginia , on July 6, 1757. Soon after his birth, the family removed to Greenville County, and in 1810 to Sumner County, Tennessee.

At the beginning of the revolution, William, then twenty years of age, joined a company of volunteers, was for some time adjutant, and was at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis.

After the war he would never accept a pension. After leaving the army he was a school teacher. Before leaving home he had become connected with the Methodist church, and soon after 1787, when he was living in Brunswick County, Virginia, he was licensed to preach, and in 1788 Bishop Asbury appointed him as junior preacher to Mecklenburg circuit. After this he served upon neighboring circuits, and in 1793 was sent to South Carolina, but returned the next year. For three years he had charge of a large district extending from Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge and Alleghany mountains.

In 1800 he went with Bishop Asbury and Bishop Whatcoat to the western conference at Bethel, Kentucky. He was appointed to superintend a district embracing a large part of the partially settled territory beyond the Alleghany Mountains, and so passed the next eight years with a yearly pittance of from twenty to less than fifty dollars.

In the great revival of those years, out of which grew the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, be was a directing spirit, and it is claimed that he, more than any other man, saved that great work from degenerating into a wild ağd ruinous fanaticism.

He continued to preside over this work till the spring of 1808 until he was elected and Ordained Bishop. His first Episcopal tour of fifteen hundred miles extended through Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois.

At the general conference of 1816 he found himself left, by the death of Bishop Asbury, the only Bishop of the church. At that time two additional Bishops were then chosen.

He continued to labor till 1815, when his health began to fail.

He was never married, received a collegiate diploma, nor left even a brief record of his eventful life.

He died in Sumner County. Tennessee, March 5, 1835

Born in Virginia, was author of "Mexico and her Military Chieftains", Philadelphia, 1847; "Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States, with Biographies of Distinguished Officers", 1848; "California and the Gold Regions", New York, 1849; "Grammar of the Spanish Language", Philadelphia, 1850; a romance entitled "Wizard of the Wave", New York, 1853; a translation of Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's "Physiologie du Gout", Philadelphia, 1854; and novels from the French.

He died in New York City, March 26, 1859.

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1808; was educated in the academy there. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, settled in Cincinnati in 1830, and in 1834 purchased a share in the "Mirror," a weekly literary journal.

In 1838 he became a merchant in Louisville and later was one of the editors of the Louisville "Journals."

He published "Drayton, an American Tale." Some of his verses are reprinted in William T. Coggeshall's "Poets and Poetry of the West."

He died at Louisville, Kentucky, December 23, 1853.

Born in Virginia; entered the army as second lieutenant of the Second Dragoons, October 14, 1837; transferred to Third Infantry, August, 1838, and in March, 1840, made assistant commissary of subsistence. He was promoted to first lieutenant in June, 1840; to captain in June, 1846; served with distinction in the Mexican war, and was brevetted major for gallant conduct at Monterey, and lieutenant-colonel for Contreras and Cherubusco, where he was wounded.

He was killed by deserters while in the performance of his duty, near New River, California. June 6, 1852.

Born a Quaker in Nansemond, Virginia, October 27, 1693; he began to preach in 1718; visited Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, and New England in 1722, and suffered imprisonment.

He traveled in Great Britain and the West Indies in 1728-30; made a journey to Barbadoes in 1740; and was in Boston in 1741, returning to Philadelphia, where he died August 5, 1742.

Born in England about 1714, son of Adam Hallam, actor and was, like his father, an actor by profession.

He was sent by his brother, William Hallam, manager of the new theatre in Good-manfields, London, to conduct the first company of English professionals to America.

They arrived at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1752, and gave their first performance in Williamsburg, then the capital of the colony, hiring a large wooden structure erected for a theatre by another company from New York. Their opening performance was "The Merchant of Venice," and the music was furnished by a single player on the harpsichord. They remained in Virginia about eleven months, playing at different places, and then went to Annapolis and Philadelphia, and in 1754 performed in New York.

Two years later they went to the British West Indies, and in that year Lewis Hallam died in Jamaica.

His wife, who was an actress at the Goodmanfields Theatre, was born in London, and after the death of Mr. Hallam married David Douglas, his successor in the management. She retired from the stage in 1769 and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1773.

Lewis Hallam's son, Lewis, made his first appearance on the stage in Williamsburg at the time of his father's first coming to this country. He was a boy of twelve years of age, and, having only one line to say, was so frightened that he remained speechless until bursting into tears he rushed off the stage. Nineteen years later he came again to Williamsburg and was at his best. His main support was his cousin, the beautiful Miss Sarah Hallam, whose portrait in her role of "Imogene" had been painted by Charles Wilson Peale.

Born in Virginia, about 1750, accompanied Daniel Boone to Kentucky, and was one of the twelve settlers who rescued Boone's daughter, who had been captured by the Indians, and while guarding the "corn-patch" with Boone was severely wounded.

After serving throughout the revolution, he joined the Society of Friends, became a preacher, and in 1801 immigrated to Ohio.

He died in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1829.

Born in Hanover, Virginia, about 1755, son of Robert Carter Nicholas, lawyer, jurist, and statesman, and grandson of Dr. George Nicholas, who immigrated to Virginia about 1700.

In 1772 he graduated from William and Mary College.

He was major of the Second Virginia Regiment in 1777, later colonel, promoted for meritorious service.

He was a member of the Virginia convention that ratified the Federal constitution, was active in the convention, and as a member of the Virginia house of assembly was influential in shaping legislation.

In 1790 he moved to Kentucky, and was a member of the convention that met in Danville in 1792, to frame a state constitution. The constitution as adopted was largely his work.

He was the first attorney-general elected under its provisions.

He died in Kentucky in 1799.