Richmond and Vicinity 



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 fanners 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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