William Preston
American politician
Died when: 53 years 185 days (642 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Colonel William Preston (December 25, 1729 – June 28, 1783) played a crucial role in surveying and developing the western colonies, exerted great influence in the colonial affairs of his time, enslaved many people on his plantation, and founded a dynasty whose progeny would supply leaders of the South for nearly a century.
He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was a colonel in the militia during the American Revolutionary War.
He was one of the fifteen signatories of the Fincastle Resolutions.He was a founding trustee of Liberty Hall (later Washington and Lee University) when it was made into a college in 1776.
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