Host on American History tv on cspan3. Today, we are coming to you from colonial williamsburg. We are out today getting your questions and commentary about life was like for those in the Virginia Colony in the 1770s. Joining us aboard the cspan bus today is president Thomas Jefferson. Barker, who by bill has portrayed him for 22 years, and he is in character today. We will be taking your questions as president Thomas Jefferson reflects back on his life in 1770s. Burg in the mr. President , what brought you to williamsburg . Jensen leftist edging thomas education. Inas my fathers eldest son a family of 10 children and i had three younger brothers and six sisters, but my father passed away when he was 49 and i but 14. I cannot inherit and to my majority at the age of 21 years in 1764, but before that, i was able to benefit by the greatest that this legacy is, not property but an education, so i came to attend the college of our former majesties, king william and queen mary in the 1759 an
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Supervisor tom a. Hay. M tom my name is tom hay, i am the site supervisor of the courthouse capital and jail here in colonial williamsburg. We are currently in the courthouse of 1770. This courthouse served as the courthouse for both the city of as well as the James City County court. Each quart midtier once a month for three or four days. Courts were the local government of the 18th century. Not only judicial business, to sue and be sued, that they also came here for tavern licenses, to be appointed to various minor to take care of widows and orphans. Being part of the british empire, they were following the English Common law as adapted by virginia statute law. The virginia General Assembly 1690een meeting since team. So by the time of the revolution, virginia had homegrown law for over 150 years. Appear on the high bench behind me, they were the leaders of local society. So for a county court, they were appointed by the royal governor nominations from the alreadysitting justices. Fo
Team coverage the massive winter storm on the way to Hampton Roads. Crews are continuing to monitor conditions to make sure the roads are safe. Newschannel threes Stefania Okolie is live in newport news with the latest. Winter blast isn t here yet but you can certainly feel it. Talk about conditions later this morning we re expected to see the first of the wintry mix here on the peninsula throughout the week crews have been planning watching the forecast we know they were out last night for pre treatment on the roads which is certainly visible this morning officials tell us they have more than two thousand500 crew members and more than 13 thousand pieces of equipment. Crews plan on using nearly 650 thousand tons of salt, sand mixture thats the weight of more than 20 cars and nearly two million gallons of liquid salt to clear the roadways. As you know governor mcauliff declared a state of emergency here in virginia which means several agencies are on standby for aid in addition to 24 ho
Baylor is in the super doppler 10 Weather Center to let us know what were expecting the rest of the night. Overnight clear and cold. Puddles may refreeze. Lows low20s. Winds light nw. Monday mostly sunny. Less wind. Milder highs mid40s. Winds light south. Tuesday mostly sunny. Much warmer highs mid50s. Winds s 515 mph. That pesky storm is now a distant memory. On to the next overnight, any puddles on the roads will refreeze, so expect icy spots tomorrow morning, especially on secondary temperatures warming into the mid40s. Itll be even warmer on tuesday with highs in the mid50s any snow that will approach tuesday night, so well throw in a chance of rain showers. As the front swings low40s. Im going to keep a chance of showers in the forecast for thursday. This will be an interesting day to the peninsula certainly took a harder hit than the southside of Hampton Roads. With as much snow as they got its taking people there a little longer to thaw out. 10 on your sides andy fox has this up