151Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The “Act for the removal of the Seat of Government” passed in the Virginia General Assembly in June 1779, not
152From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, [7] May 1782 (Madison Papers)
On 2 January 1781 the Virginia General Assembly had adopted resolutions offering to Congress most of the territory in the Old Northwest. See ...deal fairly with her offer to cede her lands north and west of the Ohio River. After having ratified the impost amendment in the session of May 1781, the Virginia General Assembly in its November session of that year decided to hold the ratification in...
153To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
Attached to the offer of the Virginia General Assembly on 2 January 1781 to cede the territory north and west of the Ohio River to the United States were several provisos, including the stipulation that Congress must reimburse Virginia for “all the charges she has incurred, on......Page, Jr., and John Taylor, delegates in the Virginia General Assembly from Spotsylvania and Caroline counties,...
154To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 18 July 1783 (Madison Papers)
...on parole. A few weeks after writing this letter Randolph became considerably less willing to grant that the doctor had been obliged to render medical service to the enemy. In response to his petition, the Virginia General Assembly on 22 December readmitted Turpin to full rights as a citizen of the state, an action not recorded in the journal. He subsequently lived at Salisbury, his estate...
155Thomas Jefferson to Nimrod Bramham, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Petition of Thomas Jefferson and Others to the Virginia General Assembly, [before 13 Dec. 1810]
156To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 22 December 1781 (Madison Papers)
Ambler was judging the work of the Virginia General Assembly in terms of its halting progress toward passage of the all-important bill “for calling in and funding the paper money of this state,” introduced on 27 November. The members of the House of Delegates were unable to......Trade, he was appointed to the Council of State by the Virginia General Assembly. In April 1782 he resigned from...
157Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
the Virginia General Assembly
158Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 15 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
, 19 Aug. 1815, gave notice that a petition would be presented to the Virginia General Assembly requesting a law authorizing
159To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 4 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
...arrived in the James River from Morlaix, France, on 27 May. In that case, the Frenchman was less intractable than supposed. In a petition for relief, submitted on 4 June to the Virginia General Assembly, he declared that “ignorance of the law” and the inaccuracy of his interpreter, who had checked with the naval officer, led him to discharge cargo without paying the required duties. For this...
160Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
of the Virginia General Assembly charged with looking into and reporting on the financial condition of two