1To Alexander Hamilton from Josiah Parker, 5 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Parker, who had served as a colonel during the Revolution, had been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1780 and 1781, and was elected to the House of Representatives from Virginia on March 4, 1789.
2To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Zachariah Johnston, Augusta County delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1778 to 1791 and a Federalist member of the Virginia Ratifying Convention, had signed the association, later described by Johnston as “an improper ill-worded remonstrance, which has in the last these words: Until we can...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 5 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
...army which had marched against the opponents of the excise tax in western Pennsylvania and for his absence from Virginia during the election campaign. On November 19, 1794, the Virginia House of Delegates adopted the following resolution: “Resolved, That the Executive be requested to furnish this House with all the information of which they are possessed, relating to the request made...
4To Alexander Hamilton from William Bradford, 2 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
John Taylor of Caroline, the famous theorist of Jeffersonian agrarianism, was a Virginia planter and lawyer. A veteran of the American Revolution, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1779 to 1785 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1792 to 1794.
5To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 18 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington is referring to the following proceedings in the Virginia House of Delegates on November 17, 1795: “A motion was made that the House do come to the following resolution:On November 21 the Virginia House of Delegates “
6To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 1 September 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington’s letter to Brooke of March 16, 1795, was presented to the Virginia House of Delegates on November 10 and 11, 1795 (
7To Alexander Hamilton from David Ross, 16 November 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
...as an aide-de-camp to Major General Charles Lee and as a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia. After the war he studied law at Fredericksburg, was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, and represented Virginia in the Continental Congress. In the mid-seventeen-eighties he moved to Maryland and was a delegate from that state to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where...