1Association of Members of the Late House of Burgesses, 27 May 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
We his Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the late representatives of the good people of this country, having been deprived by the sudden interposition of the executive part of this government from giving our countrymen the advice we wished to convey to them in a legislative capacity, find ourselves under the hard necessity of adopting this, the only method we have left, of pointing...
2Proceedings of a Meeting of Representatives in Williamsburg, 30 May 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
At a Meeting of 25 of the late Representatives legally assembled by the Moderator, it was agreed That Letters be wrote to all our Sister Colonies, acknowledging the Receipt of the Letters and Resolves from Boston &c. informing them, that before the same came to hand, the Virginia Assembly had been unexpectedly dissolved, and most of the Members returned to their respective Counties. That it is...