11Case of Unsettled Claims from Dunmore’s War, 9 December 1776 (Madison Papers)
(Virginia State Library). 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)
...Williamsburg, but during the British invasions of Virginia in 1780 and 1781, he served as a lieutenant colonel in two different corps of volunteers. Mercer was a member of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1785 and the Virginia house of delegates in 1782 and from 1785 to 1786. He moved to Maryland in 1789, and he subsequently became a member of the U.S. Congress and governor of the state...
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)
...served Lincoln as an aide-de-camp with the rank of major until 1781 when Meade was named lieutenant colonel commandant of the 2d Virginia State Legion. Meade held that rank until 1783. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates between 1780 and 1783 and of the state senate from 1794 to 1798.
15To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 22 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
..., he resigned his seat. A veteran of the House of Burgesses and the Virginia conventions, Nelson was elected in the spring of 1777 to the first of many terms in the Virginia house of delegates. Although Nelson had declined appointment as colonel of the 2d Virginia Regiment in August 1775, he accepted the temporary commission as brigadier general of militia that Gov. Patrick Henry issued to...
16To George Washington from Colonel David Mason, 22 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Nathaniel Littleton Savage (1723–1786), a merchant, planter, and speculator of Northampton County, Va., who before the Revolutionary War had served as both a county sheriff and a justice of the peace, was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1776 and 1777. Savage later moved to his plantation in New Kent County, Virginia.
17Petition of Orange County Planters to the Virginia House of Delegates, [ca. 5 December] 1777 (Madison Papers)
The names of the 105 signers, including JM and his father, are omitted here. After the petition was read to the Virginia House of Delegates on 5 December 1777, a motion to refer it to a committee failed to pass by a voice vote (
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 recruiting the Virginia Regiments on the continental establishment, and for raising additional troops of Volunteers” on 26 Dec. 1777, the house and senate were unable to reach agreement...
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 ratify the Articles of Confederation, and the state senate concurred two days later (...Virginia house of delegates resolved “That George Mason, Thomas Ludwell Lee and James Henry, Esquires, be appointed commissioners on behalf of this Commonwealth, to meet commissioners to be appointed by the State of...