1From George Washington to William Trent, 4 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...his home between 1768 and 1784 at Trenton, New Jersey. In 1776 the Indiana Company was reorganized, and Trent spent the remainder of the war years trying to make good the company’s claim. He unsuccessfully petitioned the Virginia general assembly in 1779, and between 1779 and 1783 he presented several appeals to the Continental Congress, again without avail.
2To George Washington from Lund Washington, 17 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
, nn.3 and 10. For the act of the Virginia general assembly regarding the seating of lands, see 3 Hening 312–13.
3To George Washington from Lund Washington, 15 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
. For the 1705 act of the Virginia general assembly concerning the granting and seating of lands, see 3
4Case of William Aylett, [8–22 May] 1776 (Madison Papers)
Drury Ragsdale, Jr. (1750–1804), was a captain during the Revolution—at first of his county’s militia and, from 1777 to 1783, of the 1st Continental Artillery. He was a member of the Virginia General Assembly in 1783 (F. B. Heitman,
5To George Washington from Landon Carter, 9 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
The patrolling law enacted by the Virginia general assembly in 1766 required each county to appoint a slave patrol consisting of a militia officer and up to four militiamen. At least once a month the patrol was to visit “all negro quarters and other places suspected of entertaining...
6To George Washington from Landon Carter, 31 October–2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Virginia general assembly earlier this month had revived the tobacco inspection laws that had expired on 1 Oct. 1775. Each of the numerous public tobacco warehouses in the state had two salaried inspectors, whose job it was to examine all tobacco...
7From George Washington to John Hancock, 1 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
News of the Virginia general assembly’s choice on 12 Nov. of Daniel Morgan as colonel of one of the state’s new Continental regiments and William Heth as major of another one of those regiments appears in Dixon and Hunter’s edition of the
8Orders to Brigadier General Adam Stephen, 13 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Robert Lawson (1748–1805) of Prince Edward County, Va., a member of the 2d, 3d, and 4th Virginia conventions in 1775 and 1776 and a representative in the Virginia general assembly intermittently from 1778 to 1788, served as major of the 4th Virginia Regiment from 13 Feb. 1776 to 13 Aug. 1776 when he became the regiment’s lieutenant colonel. At this time he was in Virginia attending to...
9To George Washington from Bartholomew Dandridge, 16 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Dandridge, a member of the Virginia general assembly and the Virginia convention, was at this time serving on the executive council of state. In 1778 Dandridge was elected judge of the general court....for the southern department in July 1775. In December 1779 the Virginia general assembly chose Walker as a delegate to the Continental Congress for 1780. After the war Walker studied law and...
10From George Washington to John Parke Custis, 22 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
GW may be referring to resolutions passed by the Virginia general assembly on 21 Dec. 1776 and printed in the supplement issue of Purdie’s