My father, John Henry, was about three years of age when his father died, but his mother long survived Patrick Henry, as did several of his older children.
From his mother, brothers and sisters my father learned many personal reminiscences of his father and his exceptionally retentive memory enabled him to relate them accurately.

I have often heard him relate the reminiscences given on that page by Mr.Howe." [End of Footnote] John Adams, in a letter to his wife, speaks of Sherman as "That old Puritan, as honest as an angel, and as firm in the cause of Independence as Mt.

Atlas." But perhaps the most remarkable testimony to his character, one almost unexampled in the history of public men, is that paid to him by Oliver Ellsworth, himself one of the greatest men of his time,--Chief Justice of the United States, Envoy to France, leader in the Senate for the first twelve years of the Constitution, and author of the Judiciary Act.

He had been on the Bench of the Superior Court of Connecticut, with Mr.Sherman, for many years.

They served together in the Continental Congress, and in the Senate of the United States.