1[March 1769] (Washington Papers)
...and represented Fayette County in the Virginia House of Delegates. At the time of this entry...
2[Diary entry: 12 March 1769] (Washington Papers)
...and represented Fayette County in the Virginia House of Delegates. At the time of this entry...
3[September 1774] (Washington Papers)
...Revolution, Griffin served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–88 and the United...
4[Diary entry: 11 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
...Revolution, Griffin served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–88 and the United...
5To George Washington from Burwell Bassett, 30 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...of 1776. He became speaker of the Virginia house of delegates in 1777, was appointed to the...
6Commission as Colonel of Orange County Militia, 2 October 1775 (Madison Papers)
...was usually a member of either the Virginia House of Delegates or of the Council of State....
7To George Washington from Andrew Lewis, 18 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
...represented King William County in the Virginia house of delegates for the remainder of the...
8From George Washington to John Hancock, 8–9 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...and served as chaplain of the Virginia house of delegates. In August 1777 Madison was...
9From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Dreer Collection). He served in the Virginia house of delegates in 1779, 1787 to 1788, and...
10To George Washington from Landon Carter, 31 October–2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Oct. the Virginia house of delegates ordered Thomas Jefferson, Richard Adams, and Bolling...
11Case of Unsettled Claims from Dunmore’s War, 9 December 1776 (Madison Papers)
...Mostly in the hand of John Tazewell, clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates.
12From George Washington to Lund Washington, 10–17 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Congress from 1782 to 1785 and the Virginia house of delegates in 1782 and from 1785 to 1786...
13Defeated for Election to Virginia House of Delegates, [24 April] 1777 (Madison Papers)
Defeated for Election to Virginia House of Delegates
14General Orders, 7 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
...1783. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates between 1780 and 1783 and of the...
15To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 22 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of many terms in the Virginia house of delegates. Although Nelson had declined...
16To George Washington from Colonel David Mason, 22 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of the peace, was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1776 and 1777. Savage later...
17Petition of Orange County Planters to the Virginia House of Delegates, [ca. 5 December] 1777 (Madison Papers)
.... After the petition was read to the Virginia House of Delegates on 5 December 1777, a motion...
18From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel James Innes, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Although the Virginia house of delegates approved the engrossed bill of “An Act for speedily...
19To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
A committee of the Virginia house of delegates appointed to consider a motion
20To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 14 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
). The Virginia house of delegates unanimously resolved on 15 Dec. 1777 to approve and...
21To George Washington from Joseph Jones, 22 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1777 it was announced in the Virginia house of delegates that Jones “hath desired permission...
22To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 12 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
...introduced, debated, and passed in the Virginia house of delegates on 26 Nov. 1777, although...
23To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 5 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. the Virginia house of delegates resolved “that each regular soldier, belonging either...
24To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 26 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...election to one of two Fairfax County seats in the Virginia house of delegates (see
25To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 26 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1 Jan. 1783. Overton represented Louisa County in the Virginia house of delegates, 1789–91.
26General Orders, 29 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1781. After the war Cabell served in the Virginia house of delegates, 1785–92, and in the U.S....
27To George Washington from Lund Washington, 8 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Custis was elected to the Virginia house of delegates from Fairfax County, not New Kent...
28General Orders, 21 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
...represented Caroline County in the Virginia house of delegates for four terms, beginning...
29To George Washington from Landon Carter, 7 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...elected several times to the Virginia house of delegates in the 1780s. Rebecca Plater Tayloe...
30To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 11 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Custis and George Mason to represent Fairfax County in the Virginia house of delegates, see
31To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 21 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...document. The Virginia house of delegates passed “an act granting free pardon to certain...
32General Orders, 27 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1778 and subsequently served in the Virginia house of delegates, 1785–87, and as sheriff...
33Election to Virginia House of Delegates Voided, 27 May 1778 (Madison Papers)
Election to Virginia House of Delegates Voided
34To George Washington from Colonel James Wood, 12 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
to the Virginia House of Delegates on 4 Nov., and on the following day the...
35From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, 18–30 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
On 24 Nov. 1778 the Virginia House of Delegates informed the Senate that it had “agreed to a...
36To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 12 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
...9 May, of a resolution that the Virginia House of Delegates passed on 10 May: “Resolved,...
37From George Washington to Thomas West, 5 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
...After the war, West briefly represented Fairfax County in the Virginia house of delegates.
38From John Jay to Edmund Pendleton, 21 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
.... Colonel Benjamin Harrison, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1779. Both had...
39From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, 25 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Harrison served at this time as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.
40To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
...who then sat in the Virginia House of Delegates, is referring to the selection of “a...
41To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 12 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
. Custis represented Fairfax County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
42Credentials as a Delegate to Continental Congress, 14 December 1779 (Madison Papers)
...of the Virginia Senate (1777–1779), the Virginia House of Delegates (1779–1789), and the U.S....
43Motion on Letter from J. M. P. Le Gras, [9 May] 1780 (Madison Papers)
...letter and its inclosures, to the Virginia House of Delegates, it referred them to a committee...
44To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 16 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
...–26). Between 16 and 17 June, the Virginia House of Delegates debated and agreed to a bill to...
45From George Washington to Joseph Jones, 22 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
...to Colo. Harrison (Speaker to the Virginia House of Delegates) could have a tendency to injure...
46To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1780 (Madison Papers)
Journal of the Virginia House of Delegates
47To James Madison from George Mason, 2 August 1780 (Madison Papers)
As a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Mason (1725–1792) had been in Richmond until...
48From James Madison to Joseph Jones, [24] October 1780 (Madison Papers)
Jones was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
49To James Madison from David Jameson, 25 October 1780 (Madison Papers)
...1780, the Virginia House of Delegates was finally attended by enough delegates to...
50To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 18 November 1780 (Madison Papers)
...–49). On 10 November, the Virginia House of Delegates designated Jones the chairman of a...