1Abigail Adams to Alice Lee Shippen, 30 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
’s conjecture was correct. Richard Henry Lee was serving in the Virginia House of Delegates.
2William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates 1776–2007
3To Alexander Hamilton from Josiah Parker, 5 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Parker, who had served as a colonel during the Revolution, had been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1780 and 1781, and was elected to the House of Representatives from Virginia on March 4, 1789.
4To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Zachariah Johnston, Augusta County delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1778 to 1791 and a Federalist member of the Virginia Ratifying Convention, had signed the association, later described by Johnston as “an improper ill-worded remonstrance, which has in the last these words: Until we can...
5Report on the Petition of Timothy de Monbreun, 5 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
...ignored the question of money owed him for supplies furnished during the American Revolution, De Monbreun indicated in a memorial addressed to the Virginia House of Delegates on November 11, 1794, that he had incurred obligations for supplies delivered to the Indians when he was commandant of Kaskaskia shortly after the American Revolution. His memorial defines his services as follows: “...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
...army which had marched against the opponents of the excise tax in western Pennsylvania and for his absence from Virginia during the election campaign. On November 19, 1794, the Virginia House of Delegates adopted the following resolution: “Resolved, That the Executive be requested to furnish this House with all the information of which they are possessed, relating to the request made...
7To Alexander Hamilton from William Bradford, 2 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
John Taylor of Caroline, the famous theorist of Jeffersonian agrarianism, was a Virginia planter and lawyer. A veteran of the American Revolution, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1779 to 1785 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1792 to 1794.
8The Defence No. IV, [1 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This was not an act but a series of resolutions made by the Virginia House of Delegates on June 22, 1784. See “Remarks on the Treaty … between the United States and Great Britain,” July 9–11, 1795, notes
9Philo Camillus No. 4, [19 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to resolutions of the Virginia House of Delegates on June 22, 1784 (see “Remarks on the Treaty … between the United States and Great Britain,” July 9–11, 1795, notes
10To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 18 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington is referring to the following proceedings in the Virginia House of Delegates on November 17, 1795: “A motion was made that the House do come to the following resolution:On November 21 the Virginia House of Delegates “