BANISTER, John, a Delegate
from Virginia; born at “Hatcher’s Run,” near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County,
Va., December 26, 1734; attended a private school at Wakefield, England, and was
graduated in law from the Temple in London; returned to Virginia and commenced
the practice of law in Petersburg; also engaged as a planter; member of the
Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765, 1766-1774, and 1775; member of the
conventions of 1775 and 1776; served in the State house of delegates in 1776,
1777, and 1781-1783; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778; one of the
framers and signers of the Articles of Confederation; during the Revolutionary
War served as major and lieutenant colonel of the Virginia Militia; died on his
estate, “Hatcher’s Run,” near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., on
September 30, 1788; interment in the family burying ground on his estate. - -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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