1To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
Randolph’s “friday last” was 10 January 1783. Joseph Jones, a delegate to Congress from Virginia; James Monroe, Jones’s nephew and a member of the Virginia Council of State; James Henry of Accomack County, who had borrowed money from Jones in 1780; and David Ross, a prominent Petersburg merchant and owner of ships, mines, and plantations, who from 27 December 1780 to 24 May 1782...
2To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 12 July 1783 (Madison Papers)
(Richmond, 1783). Smith, a member of the Virginia Council of State at that time, opposed the payment of private debts and the return of confiscated property to British subjects, including Loyalists, until Great Britain had executed all the stipulations favorable to the United States in the preliminary articles of...
3To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 27 January 1784 (Madison Papers)
On 16 February 1784 the Virginia Council of State, including John Marshall, a future Chief Justice of the United States, agreed with Randolph’s conclusion by advising Harrison “not to comply with the requisition for the delivery of the said George Hancock.” On the same day...
4To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 March 1787 (Madison Papers)
, pp. 216–17). When Fox failed to appear in Richmond, the Virginia Council of State advised Heth and Henley to “proceed in the work” without him (
5To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 3 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
In October 1787 Congress had authorized the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to appoint commissioners to negotiate a treaty with the southern Indians. On 4 Sept. 1788 the Virginia Council of State ordered the appointment of a commissioner to attend the treaty negotiations and deliver a “talk” to the Cherokee (