1To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 6–10 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
To reduce exposure to a naval attack, the Virginia General Assembly had shifted its meeting place from Williamsburg to Richmond for the session scheduled to begin on 1 May 1780. Harrison served as Speaker in the House of Delegates during this session.
2Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 15 January 1782 (Madison Papers)
On 5 January 1782 the Virginia General Assembly resolved, “That the Executive are hereby directed not to pay any money or specifics on continental account, except to the financier general or his order, or other person specially appointed by Congress to receive the same; and...
3Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 9 February 1782 (Madison Papers)
), was written at Charlottesville, because the Virginia General Assembly had moved there from Richmond to escape the British.
4Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 6 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
of 29 June 1782 that no money had been received to forward during April, May, and June. Although an act of the Virginia General Assembly in its session of May 1782 stipulated that certain tax income “shall be appropriated to continental purposes,” the measure included no provision for sending the money to Morris or even for transferring it to the custody of his...
5Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 11 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
...the world.” When they first conferred about the supplies, La Luzerne seems to have encouraged Harrison to believe that the court of Versailles would cover the cost of the goods and accept as security “a bond” pledging the Virginia General Assembly to reimburse the French government “in five annual payments, to commence from the close of the present War.”
6Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 8 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
...passed on 24 January 1778, as well as with portions of a statute passed on 11 June 1779, in that all three limited the tenures of delegates to Congress to “three years in any term of six,” the Virginia General Assembly repealed the entire first statute and pertinent portions of the second as being “unnecessary” (
7Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 11 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
, XXI, 1013). Several laws enacted by the Virginia General Assembly during the Revolution implicitly or explicitly authorized the executive of the Commonwealth to provide troops of the state line and militiamen with the continental ration whenever they were called to active duty and assigned to continental service (
8Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 16 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
On 2 July, the Virginia General Assembly directed the treasurer of the state to have the continental currency, then or thereafter in his custody, “punched through” and held in the treasury until Congress should direct this money to be destroyed or sent to the treasury..., and n. 5. For the background of these resolutions of the Virginia General Assembly and of Congress, see
9Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 2 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
In the October 1782 session of the Virginia General Assembly, a resolution of the House of Delegates to pay 15,000 livres to Nathan in settlement of a part of his claims was tabled in the Senate (
10Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 16 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
...’s plan early in 1782 to have the military matériel brought from France in the “Cormorant” and “Oliver Cromwell” had been thwarted by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on 23 May. This statute removed the “Cormorant” and other state ships from the governor’s control, assigned them to protect the “commerce of Chesapeake bay and its dependencies,” and forbade their employment upon the...