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owned 13 slaves and also farmed with the assistance of one free black boy. His father owned more slaves. By 1840, Edward
Colston's family had grown to include 10 persons (6 of them children), and 18 slaves, as well as the now-over 55 year old free black man and a 24 to 34 year old free black woman.
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Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819) with 64.35% of the vote, defeating
Democratic-Republicans Daniel Morgan and Robert Bailey. Colston did not seek re-election but returned to Honeywood because his father needed help handling the family's plantations. In the 1820 census, this Edward Colston
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Colston as one of their representatives in the House of Delegates, so he served from 1823 to 1828, and then from 1833 to 1835. He lost an attempt to return to the U.S. Congress in 1825 to Democratic-Republican
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and power a mill. The mill burned several times in the ensuing decades, and the dam also became a strategic site in the
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683:Virginia's 2nd congressional district
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324:Early and family life
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165:Elisha Boyd
70:Magnus Tate
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749:Stephenson
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709:Stephenson
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472:References
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306:Federalist
276:Allegiance
261:Occupation
250:Alma mater
229:Federalist
186:1786-12-25
108:Alongside
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779:Dromgoole
423:Fifteenth
161:1812–1813
157:In office
144:In office
135:1823–1824
131:In office
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118:In office
102:In office
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