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Colonies. A section from the resolutions reads, ‘‘We are free men;
we have a right to be so. . . . Let it suffice, to say once for all, we
will never be taxed but by our own representatives. ... We will
heartily join in such measures as the majority of our countrymen
shall adopt for securing the public liberty.”
William Pollard, the second, was born in 1760 at Buckeye, and
at the age of twenty-one took up the duties of clerk, having been
in the office with his father since his eighteenth year. He grew to
be a’man of such accurate business methods in his work that he
was called “Billy Particular.” His farm at Williamsville of over
one thousand acres, was so well managed that he became one of the
richest farmers in Virginia for the time in which he lived.
- William Pollard was a revolutionist in mind, heart, and soul.
Tradition says that many a patriot of those early days of the
republic enjoyed his hospitable roof. Here were entertained
Edmund Pendleton, first judge of the Court of Appeals of Vir¬
ginia, who had married Sarah Pollard; and also Edmund Pendle¬
ton, the second, colonel in the Revolutionary Army, who had
married Mildred Pollard. Both were kinswomen of the owner of
Williamsville. John Taylor, of Caroline County, who was United
States Senator, was his first cousin, being the son of Anne Pollard,
his father’s sister. “These were all members of the family group
who gathered at Williamsville to talk of political affairs when the
nation was in its infancy.
From this family of Pollards are descended Senator Under¬
wood, of Alabama; John Garland Pollard, former Attorney¬
General of Virginia, and Henry R. Pollard, attorney for the city
of Richmond for many years.
During these history-making days, Williamsville had two mis¬
tresses—not simultaneously, of course, but consecutively—for Wil¬
liam Pollard was married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth
Dabney, widow of Isaac Dabney, and formerly Elizabeth Smelt,
whom he married in 1786.
The second wife of William Pollard was Elizabeth Shackle¬
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