1[March 1769] (Washington Papers)
...delegate to the first three Virginia Conventions in 1775, and served as colonel of the Third Virginia Regiment during the Revolution. In the 1780s he moved with his family to Kentucky and represented Fayette County in the Virginia House of Delegates. At the time of this entry, Marshall was living at “The Hollow” near present-day Markham, Va., about five miles from Robert Ashby’s Yew Hill...
2[Diary entry: 12 March 1769] (Washington Papers)
...delegate to the first three Virginia Conventions in 1775, and served as colonel of the Third Virginia Regiment during the Revolution. In the 1780s he moved with his family to Kentucky and represented Fayette County in the Virginia House of Delegates. At the time of this entry, Marshall was living at “The Hollow” near present-day Markham, Va., about five miles from Robert Ashby’s Yew Hill...
3[September 1774] (Washington Papers)
...who was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Charles Lee in 1775. He later became deputy adjutant general of the Flying Camp and a member of the Virginia Board of War. After the Revolution, Griffin served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–88 and the United States House of Representatives 1789–95.
4[Diary entry: 11 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
...who was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Charles Lee in 1775. He later became deputy adjutant general of the Flying Camp and a member of the Virginia Board of War. After the Revolution, Griffin served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–88 and the United States House of Representatives 1789–95.
5To George Washington from Burwell Bassett, 30 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...(ibid., 418–19, 446–47). Wythe, a prominent lawyer who had been clerk of the House of Burgesses for many years, attended Congress until the end of 1776. He became speaker of the Virginia house of delegates in 1777, was appointed to the new state court of chancery in 1778, and in December 1779 was named professor of law at the College of William and Mary. Nelson, a member of the governor’...
6Commission as Colonel of Orange County Militia, 2 October 1775 (Madison Papers)
...the Revolution, Carter Braxton (1736–1797) was of local prominence as a burgess and sheriff of King William County. From 1776 until his death he was usually a member of either the Virginia House of Delegates or of the Council of State. When serving in the Continental Congress, 1776–1777, he signed the Declaration of Independence. Before the Revolution, James Mercer (1736–1793) of...
7To George Washington from Andrew Lewis, 18 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
...who had died. Braxton did not reach Philadelphia until sometime late in February. He took his seat in Congress on 23 Feb. and served until early August when his term expired. Braxton represented King William County in the Virginia house of delegates for the remainder of the war except for sessions in 1778 and 1782.
8From George Washington to John Hancock, 8–9 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...James Madison the future president of the United States, Rev. James Madison was an ardent Patriot, who defended the American cause in many of his sermons and served as chaplain of the Virginia house of delegates. In August 1777 Madison was named captain of a militia company composed of professors and students at the College of William and Mary, and about the same time he became president of...
9From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, PHi: Dreer Collection). He served in the Virginia house of delegates in 1779, 1787 to 1788, and 1791 to 1792, and he was a member of the U.S. Congress from 1799 to 1801.
10To George Washington from Landon Carter, 31 October–2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
On 14 Oct. the Virginia house of delegates ordered Thomas Jefferson, Richard Adams, and Bolling Starke to prepare a bill “for the removal of the seat of government” from Williamsburg, but it was rejected by the house when it was presented on 11 Nov. (...Virginia house of delegates ordered Richard Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Bolling Starke, and Cuthbert Bullitt to prepare a bill “To enable tenants...