62 A. E. Verrill — lielations heticeen Bermuda and the 



One of the means of communicating with friendly Bermudians is 

 shown in a letter of information communicated by Lieut. -Col. 

 Edward Smith, Oct. 22, 1777 : "AH American ships falling in with 

 Bermuda Islands must stand tor the West end, and by their hoisting 

 a jack at the maintoi)mast head, a Mr, Tucker would send off a boat, 

 and procuring them, as required, assistance, would give them orders 

 or satisfactory information." 



Y, Biofjraphical Notes on some of the persons mentioned. 



St. George Tucker.* He was born at Port Royal, Bermuda, July 

 10, 1752, and died near Warminster, Va., Nov. 10, 1827. His parents 

 were Henry and Anne (Butterfield) Tucker. He was a descendant 

 of George Tucker of Kent, England, who was a prominent member 

 of the Warwick party in the Virginia Company' of London, and of his 

 eldest son, George Tucker, who emigrated to Bermuda among the 

 earliest settlers and became a land owner and planter of tobacco 

 there. The latter was a nephew of Governor Daniel Tucker (1615- 

 1616), famous for his strenuous government of his unruly subjects.} 



St. George Tucker came to Virginia in 1771, to complete his 

 education, and o^raduated at the Colleofe of William and Marv in 

 1772. He afterwards studied and practiced law. He went to Ber- 

 muda, June, 1775, and was admitted to the bar there, July, 1775. 

 In November, 1776, he returned to Virginia with a cargo of salt. 

 In 1777 he engaged, with his brother Thomas, in importing gun- 

 powder and other munitions of war from the W^est Indies. He soon 

 entered the army. He was Aide-de-camp to General Thos. Nelson in 

 1779 ; Major in 1781, He served with General Greene in the south, 

 and was wounded in the battle of Guilford Court House, March 15, 

 1781. He became Lieut. -Colonel, Sept. 12, 1781, and was sent as 

 a delegate with Edward Randolph and James Madison to the 

 Annapolis Convention in 1786. It is said that he was the person 

 who made the report of the famous speech of Patrick Henry. 



After the war he resumed the practice of law, and became a judge 

 in 1787. He was appointed Professor of Law in the College of 

 William and Mary, 1789-90, and was judge of the II. S. District 

 Court of Virginia, 1813-25. He also held other important offices. 

 He wrote a number of important legal works, and had a good liter- 

 ary reputation, both as a writer of prose and poetry. 



* The dates here given are mostly from Lamb's Biog. Diet. United StatesJ 



190-5, vol. vii, p. 387. Other biographical works give some of them -differentlyJ 



t See "The Bei-muda Islands," vol. i, pp. 447, 476, 551, 634, 630, 713, 719^ 



875. 



