1From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 8 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
You will add to the obligations under which you have already laid me, by taking the trouble to transmit the inclosed to the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.
2From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 30 December 1782 (Madison Papers)
JM referred to the Arthur Lee–Mann Page issue in the Virginia House of Delegates. See
3From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 27 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
On 6 June 1783 Jefferson was one of the five men elected by joint ballot of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate to serve as delegates in Congress for “one year from the first Monday in November next” (
4From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 3 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
. The earlier of these letters, enclosing a brief portion of the journal of the Virginia House of Delegates, evidently had not reached JM.
5From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 13 October 1783 (Madison Papers)
Joseph Jones, a delegate from King George County to the General Assembly, may have reached Richmond before the Virginia House of Delegates mustered its first quorum on 4 November (
6From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 10 March 1784 (Madison Papers)
The voters of Orange County on 22 Apr. chose JM and Charles Porter to be their representatives in the session of the Virginia House of Delegates, scheduled to convene 3 May (
7From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 18 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
...author, who had read law under his supervision: “Vanity and ambition seem to be the ruling passions of this young man and as his objects are impure, so also are his means.” The Virginia House of Delegates adopted the instructions on 17 Dec. 1782 and the Senate concurred on the 23d. Mercer, who had first come to the legislature in the autumn of 1782, won election as one of the delegates...