1To George Washington from Joseph Jones, 22 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
...was near Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Va., had served in the Virginia house of burgesses from 1765 to 1775 and in the house of delegates from 1776 to 1777. On 19 Nov. 1777 the Virginia general assembly elected him a delegate to the Continental Congress, but he did not take his seat until 16 Mar. 1778, and after a leave of absence granted in September, he resigned his seat in December...
2To George Washington from Joseph Jones, 23 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
During its May session, the Virginia General Assembly passed an “act to embody militia for the relief of South Carolina, and for other purposes,” which stipulated that 2,500 infantry be called into service from several counties based on quotas. The men would march “without...
3To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 2 December 1780 (Madison Papers)
In the form passed by the Virginia General Assembly on 1 January 1781, the recruitment act differed substantially from Jones’s discussion of it in this letter (
4To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 21 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
The words of this sentence were partially destroyed when the manuscript was unsealed by JM. The bracketed inserts are the editors’. For the recruitment law, adopted at the May 1782 session of the Virginia General Assembly, see
5To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 25 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
, and n. 8. The “policy,” which had been embodied in law from 28 June 1777 to 11 June 1779, was revived in order to weaken the Lee faction in the Virginia General Assembly by making Arthur Lee ineligible for reelection to the House of Delegates as long as he continued to be a delegate in Congress. See
6To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 8 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
, May 1783, p. 39. For Jefferson, Arthur Lee, and Mercer, the action of the Virginia General Assembly on 6, not on 7, June was a re-election, although Jefferson had not served as a delegate since 1776. For Samuel Hardy of Isle of ...Virginia General Assembly of May 1783 was composed of 25 senators and 152 delegates. Thus, in the unlikely event that there were no absentees, a bare majority would...
7To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 14 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly refused to sanction the collection of imposts by congressional appointees, as requested in the plan for restoring public credit. The Assembly, however, appeared certain to designate for the use of Congress the proceeds from some taxes to be......1783 of the Virginia General Assembly adjourned without approving the recommendations by Congress to change the base for...
8To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 21 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
During the session of May 1783 the members of the Virginia General Assembly were sufficiently in accord to defer the collection of several types of taxes but were much divided on the issue of enacting a stay law for the relief of citizens who apparently could not discharge their overdue obligations to private......and several sessions of the Virginia General Assembly adopted ordinances or...
9To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 28 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
). John Dawson (1762–1814), a brother of the first husband of Jones’s wife (Mary Waugh Dawson), was graduated by Harvard College in 1782. He was a delegate from Spotsylvania County in the Virginia General Assembly, 1786–1789, a member of the
10To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 21 July 1783 (Madison Papers)
, III, 276–77). The Virginia General Assembly, besides re-electing Harrison governor on 27 November, enacted on 22 December a law in place of the ones which had warranted his proclamation, extending to all residents of the United States on 19 April 1775 who thereafter...