1From George Washington to Carter Burwell, 20 April 1755 (Washington Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly had last met 17 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1754. A new session was to begin 1 May 1755. For Burwell’s offer, see
2From George Washington to John Robinson, 20 April 1755 (Washington Papers)
John Robinson was speaker of the House of Burgesses, not of the House of Delegates which replaced that body as the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly in 1776.
3From George Washington to William Fairfax, 5 May 1755 (Washington Papers)
, 36). The seat of Frederick County, Winchester was laid out in 1744 but not established by the Virginia General Assembly until 1752.
4From George Washington to Robert Orme, 22 May 1755 (Washington Papers)
, 6:422–23). An anticipated shortage of corn “occasioned by the long drought” induced the Virginia General Assembly in August to fix the price of corn temporarily and to authorize the governor and council to prohibit the exportation of all grain until the situation improved (6
5Memorandum List of Tithables, 16 July 1770 (Washington Papers)
...his total number of tithables for Truro Parish. “An Act for the Settlement and Regulation of Ferries, and for Dispatch of Public Expresses,” passed in the October 1748 session of the Virginia general assembly, provided that “for encouragement of ferry keepers, and in consideration of setting over public messengers, [free of charge] . . . That all the men attending the said ferries be free...
6[February 1772] (Washington Papers)
The first session of the new Virginia General Assembly, after several prorogations, was scheduled to begin on 6 Feb., but did not obtain a quorum until four days later due to the bad weather and poor roads (
7[Diary entry: 25 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
The first session of the new Virginia General Assembly, after several prorogations, was scheduled to begin on 6 Feb., but did not obtain a quorum until four days later due to the bad weather and poor roads (
8From George Washington to William Trent, 4 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...his home between 1768 and 1784 at Trenton, New Jersey. In 1776 the Indiana Company was reorganized, and Trent spent the remainder of the war years trying to make good the company’s claim. He unsuccessfully petitioned the Virginia general assembly in 1779, and between 1779 and 1783 he presented several appeals to the Continental Congress, again without avail.
9From George Washington to John Hancock, 1 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
News of the Virginia general assembly’s choice on 12 Nov. of Daniel Morgan as colonel of one of the state’s new Continental regiments and William Heth as major of another one of those regiments appears in Dixon and Hunter’s edition of the
10Orders to Brigadier General Adam Stephen, 13 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Robert Lawson (1748–1805) of Prince Edward County, Va., a member of the 2d, 3d, and 4th Virginia conventions in 1775 and 1776 and a representative in the Virginia general assembly intermittently from 1778 to 1788, served as major of the 4th Virginia Regiment from 13 Feb. 1776 to 13 Aug. 1776 when he became the regiment’s lieutenant colonel. At this time he was in Virginia attending to...