1Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 (Franklin Papers)
...–9. In November 1738 the Virginia House of Burgesses rejected Tennent’s petition for a...
2From Benjamin Franklin to ———, [February 1746?]. (Franklin Papers)
...of which Governor Gooch informed the Virginia House of Burgesses, Feb. 20, 1746: “...
3To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, January 1754 (Washington Papers)
On 14 Feb. 1754 the Virginia House of Burgesses met to consider Dinwiddie’s reports and on 22 Feb...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 26 January 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...–90. Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses, Nov. 1, 1753, Governor Dinwiddie called...
5Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on the Western Bounds, 7 March 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...to comply. Dinwiddie summoned the Virginia House of Burgesses and called on the governors...
6From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 29 May 1754 (Washington Papers)
...was the speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1738 to 1765 and treasurer of the...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Turner, 7 September 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...1758) of Walsingham, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; clerk of King George Co., 1723...
8To George Washington from Adam Stephen, 25 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
...who in 1757 was paid £10 by the Virginia House of Burgesses as a “Recompence for the Loss of...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Kelsick: Certificate as Burgess and Freeman of Norfolk, 10 April 1756 (Franklin Papers)
...Hutchings (1691–1768), prominent merchant and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
10To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 25 February 1762 (Washington Papers)
...presented a petition to the Virginia House of Burgesses for recruiting losses he...