So after the Stamp Act Riots, Britain is going to actually withdraw the Stamp Tax, largely because of the boycott. The merchants were saying, we're just losing money on this. But in its place, they're going to issue the Declaratory Act. Which is basically the British Parliament thumping its chest and saying we have the authority to impose taxes even though we've withdrawn the Stamp Tax. Well, a year later they imposed the Townshend Duties. These are duties on imports, and it leads to another small boycott. The boycott is going to grow over time. There's question in the colonies as to whether this is the same thing as the Stamp Act. But initially it's relatively quiet; people don't know that the American Revolution is coming. We know it's coming, but they didn't know that. And so let's turn back to Henry's life as a lawyer and as a father, because he continues to have to earn a living. His fame as an attorney is growing in this period. It's important financially. He's eventually going to have 17 children. And he wanted to see to it that they had advantages that he didn't have. By 1771, he already has six children; he already owns 3,000 acres of land in Virginia. But he buys the very old Scotchtown plantation. Scotchtown had been built in 1720. It's one of the largest and most beautiful plantations in Virginia, although not nearly the fanciest. It's actually a very simple building. And it comes with 960 acres in Hanover County. So it was very convenient for getting to Williamsburg whenever the House of Burgesses would be meeting. And Henry planned to raise his family here as a successful attorney. Well, let's pause just on some of his legal cases in this period, the late, latter part of the 1760s. One of the things that's happening in the colony of Virginia as we mentioned, the established church, the church of England is the established church. And in the latter part of the 1760s, we're starting to actively persecute dissenting churches; Baptists and Presbyterians are actually being jailed for preaching without a license or disturbing the peace. Well, we've already seen that Patrick Henry is very sympathetic to these dissenters and to the idea that the government shouldn't be telling people what to believe or how to worship. And so it is reported, and again the history is not perfectly clear, that Patrick Henry gets involved in a number of these cases defending Baptist and Presbyterian ministers against government indictment. One case that is clear that's very interesting: John Weatherford, a Baptist minister down in ... Chesterfield County, excuse me, is arrested for preaching without a license, and he's thrown in jail. Well one of the things the Baptist ministers would do is they would preach from jail, because people would come and listen to them outside the jail. And it was a great way to make converts. So John Weatherford is preaching from the jail in Chesterfield County and apparently at one point he has his arms outreached in prayer and people come up from the right and left and cut his arms with knives. I mean, there's very serious persecution of these Baptist and Presbyterian ministers which we tend to glide over in history. We don't like to talk about that kind of religious persecution in Virginia and in America. Well, Henry defends John Weatherford and gets the charges against him dismissed, the charge that he'd been preaching without a license. Even though, he had been preaching without a license. But Weatherford is kept in jail because it's the 18th century, and you have to pay for your jail time. You have to pay for what it costs to feed you and to house you. He has to pay the jailer for the food basically. Weatherford doesn't have the money, and so the jailer, this doesn't make any sense, but they kept him in jail because he couldn't pay for the food that he had eaten. Well, someone anonymously pays Weatherford's jail fees so that he can be released from jail. It's only many years later that Weatherford finds out it was Patrick Henry, his attorney, who had paid those fees. So Patrick Henry is very much engaged in this fight for religious freedom in the 1760s. Well, so he's building his family; he's building his plantation; he's engage in a lot of legal works. Some of them are very interesting but there's also this low boil going on with Britain. Were not happy about the Townshend Duties, there is a boycott which is beginning to gains steam in the 1760s and into the 1770's. Thomas Jefferson is elected to the House of Burgesses in 1769, and Henry and Jefferson, Dabne Carr, Richard Henry Lee, sort of the young bucks of the Virgina legislature, are beginning to meet at the Raleigh Tavern and talk about how do we organize opposition to this British effort to control the colonies. At this point in time, Jefferson is very much, admires Patrick Henry. He very much looks up to Patrick Henry, who's older, a much more experienced attorney, and this great speaker who had introduced the Resolves against the Stamp Act. Well the people in Virginia do support the Committee of Correspondence. There's questions again as to who starts the idea of the Committee of Correspondence. Massachusetts is talking about it, New York and Virginia. But they do have this Committee of Correspondence, so that the colonies can communicate, and we can have this united effort in opposition to efforts to control. Thomas Jefferson later writes about Henry, "He was far about all in maintaining the spirit of the Revolution." Keeping this idea of we're in this together, against British tyranny. But it wouldn't stay a low boil for long.