Callahan, Charles Hilliard, 1858-1944 · Washington : National Capital Press · leaf 409
nor of the Commonwealth, and, while holdingthat office and also that of Grand Master of Masons, was one ofVirginias delegation with Washington, George Mason and others inthe convention at Philadelphia, which framed the Federal Constitu-tion in 1787, but with Mason, believing the rights of the… … <> QZ o K < X In2 O < OUR MASONIC FOREBEARS. 261 and in 1794, under Washingtons second administration, he succeededMr. Jefferson as Secretary of State. About 1784 the legislature of Virginia, which had formerly heldits sessions in Williamsburg, took up its permanent abode inRichmond^and…
