1To George Washington from Burwell Bassett, 30 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...of 1776. He became speaker of the Virginia house of delegates in 1777, was appointed to the...
2To George Washington from Andrew Lewis, 18 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
...represented King William County in the Virginia house of delegates for the remainder of the...
3To George Washington from Landon Carter, 31 October–2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Oct. the Virginia house of delegates ordered Thomas Jefferson, Richard Adams, and Bolling...
4To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 22 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of many terms in the Virginia house of delegates. Although Nelson had declined...
5To George Washington from Colonel David Mason, 22 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of the peace, was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1776 and 1777. Savage later...
6From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel James Innes, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Although the Virginia house of delegates approved the engrossed bill of “An Act for speedily...
7To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
A committee of the Virginia house of delegates appointed to consider a motion
8To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 14 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
). The Virginia house of delegates unanimously resolved on 15 Dec. 1777 to approve and...
9To George Washington from Joseph Jones, 22 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1777 it was announced in the Virginia house of delegates that Jones “hath desired permission...
10To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 12 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
...introduced, debated, and passed in the Virginia house of delegates on 26 Nov. 1777, although...
11To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 5 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. the Virginia house of delegates resolved “that each regular soldier, belonging either...
12To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 26 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...election to one of two Fairfax County seats in the Virginia house of delegates (see
13To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 26 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1 Jan. 1783. Overton represented Louisa County in the Virginia house of delegates, 1789–91.
14To George Washington from Lund Washington, 8 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Custis was elected to the Virginia house of delegates from Fairfax County, not New Kent...
15To George Washington from Landon Carter, 7 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...elected several times to the Virginia house of delegates in the 1780s. Rebecca Plater Tayloe...
16To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 11 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Custis and George Mason to represent Fairfax County in the Virginia house of delegates, see
17To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 21 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...document. The Virginia house of delegates passed “an act granting free pardon to certain...
18To George Washington from Colonel James Wood, 12 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
to the Virginia House of Delegates on 4 Nov., and on the following day the...
19To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 12 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
...9 May, of a resolution that the Virginia House of Delegates passed on 10 May: “Resolved,...
20To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
...who then sat in the Virginia House of Delegates, is referring to the selection of “a...
21To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 12 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
. Custis represented Fairfax County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
22To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 16 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
...–26). Between 16 and 17 June, the Virginia House of Delegates debated and agreed to a bill to...
23To George Washington from James Duane, 29 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
...of Benjamin Harrison, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, and freed his...
24To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 28 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
...Capt. John Champe Carter, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
25Virginia Delegates to George Washington, 8 January 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia House of Delegates on 17 Dec. 1781 unanimously adopted a resolution thanking...
26To George Washington from John Allison, 26 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
The journal of the Virginia house of delegates for its May 1777 session has been lost.
27To George Washington from James Wood, 5 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
...from Frederick County to the Virginia house of delegates, was from 1776 to 1783...
28To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 2 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
...June 1784 the Virginia house of delegates resolved: “That the Executive be empowered and...
29To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 15 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
..., are printed in the journal of the Virginia house of delegates for 13 Dec.: “Whereas, the...
30To George Washington from Alexander Henderson, 11 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
...Dec. 1784 the Virginia house of delegates voted 45 to 38 to postpone further consideration...
31To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 26 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
On 1 Jan. 1785 the Virginia house of delegates:
32To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 11 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. 1785 the Virginia house of delegates adopted a resolution calling for the governor to...
33To George Washington from James Madison, 11 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
...of the unsuccessful attempt in the Virginia house of delegates during this session to amend...
34To George Washington from Benjamin Tupper, 23 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
...represented Ohio in the Virginia house of delegates from 1786 through 1791, except in 1790;...
35To George Washington from Hannah Crawford, 16 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
...On 2 Dec. 1786 the Virginia house of delegates read Mrs. Crawford’s petition ”that her late...
36To George Washington from Gardoqui, 29 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
.... 1786, the Virginia house of delegates adopted a series of resolutions declaring that...
37To George Washington from John Lewis, 13 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
...1757–1800) represented Nansemond County in the Virginia house of delegates from 1784 until...
38To George Washington from James Monroe, 15 February 1789 (Washington Papers)
...(1758–1831) was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1782, in 1783–86 served in...
39To George Washington from John Hopkins, 10 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
...stormy: in November 1781 the Virginia house of delegates accused him of illegally acquiring...
40To George Washington from Carter Braxton, 15 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
...(1746–1810), a member of the Virginia house of delegates 1787–88 and at this time representing...
41To George Washington from Arthur Lee, 21 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Arthur Lee (1740–1792) served in the Virginia house of delegates in 1781–83 and 1785 and in...
42To George Washington from Josiah Parker, 1 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Isle of Wight County in the Virginia house of delegates but was declared ineligible. He was...
43To George Washington from Cyrus Griffin, 10 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Virginia House of Delegates Journal,
44To George Washington from Thomas Howells, 14 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Randolph sent GW’s letter to the Virginia house of delegates, where it was identified only as...
45To George Washington from George William Smith, 20 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Smith also served in the Virginia house of delegates intermittently between 1776 and 1788 and...
46To George Washington from James Madison, 20 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
...s unsuccessful attempt in the Virginia house of delegates to make hemp and tobacco commutable...
47To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
...senators Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson to the Virginia house of delegates is printed...
48To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 26 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
For the Virginia house of delegates’ action on the amendments to the Constitution, see
49To George Washington from James Madison, 4 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
For the action of the Virginia house of delegates on the amendments to the Constitution, see
50To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
..., a copy of a resolution of the Virginia house of delegates dated 17 Dec. 1789, reads: “Mr...