1To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 1 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
,” which the Virginia General Assembly passed during its October 1777 session (
2To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 19 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly at its session of May 1782 did not issue more bills of credit.Although the Virginia General Assembly in its session of May 1782 provided for paying the long overdue salaries and allowances of the delegates, Randolph did not return to Congress (
3To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
, X, 533). Although the Pennsylvania General Assembly ratified this compact on 19 November 1779, the Virginia General Assembly delayed until 4 July 1780 before expressing an approval, qualified by provisos intended to protect the personal and property rights of Virginians who, after the delineation of the boundary, would be under Pennsylvania’s jurisdiction (...Virginia General Assembly...
4To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
The session of the Virginia General Assembly of May 1782 enacted no law either to issue more paper money or to revive the legal-tender quality of earlier emissions (The Virginia General Assembly convened on 6 May but the House of Delegates did not have a quorum until nine days later (
5To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 16–17 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
. The “similar occasion” may have happened in the session of the Virginia General Assembly of May 1778, when a committee including Jefferson drafted a bill to compel the attendance of senators and delegates. Although this measure contained no provision forbidding a member to refuse to serve, Jefferson may have spoken in favor...
6To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 21–24 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
The October 1776 session of the Virginia General Assembly had enacted a law on this subject which, besides many other provisions, specifically banned trade in tobacco with the enemy (...banned a traffic which Congress and the Virginia General Assembly had also prohibited. The controversy involved not only a conflict between states’ rights and confederation power but also between the terms of a...
7To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 1 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
On 1 July 1782 the Virginia General Assembly enacted a law “for appropriating the public revenue.” This measure provided that the tax money “shall be appropriated to continental purposes, and shall be applied to the credit of this commonwealth, upon the requisition of congress of...
8To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
, XLVIII, 170–71, 173–74). Largely as a response to the above-mentioned statute and Harrison’s mission to Richmond, the Virginia General Assembly on 13 and 14 June passed resolutions (
9To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 20 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
), his eligibility would appear to end in 1782 on 31 October, since the Virginia General Assembly was accustomed to elect This was stipulated in the fifth paragraph of a statute enacted by the Virginia General Assembly on 5 January 1782 (
10To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
. In mid-June the Virginia General Assembly had reluctantly permitted the vessels to load tobacco (...of the plan of march and the route followed by the French army. Both the Virginia General Assembly and the residents of Williamsburg expressed to Rochambeau their appreciation for the signal services which his troops had rendered to the Commonwealth and for their “strict discipline.” The...
11To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 18 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
...a hospital surgeon in the southern department from 1 July 1776 to 31 July 1781. Despite JM’s efforts in his behalf, Carter seems to have procured no direct relief from Congress. On 26 May 1784 he asked the Virginia General Assembly for nearly five years’ back pay, with allowances for depreciation. A certificate for the balance was authorized to be issued and charged against the United States (
12To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 16 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
For the attention given to this matter by the Virginia General Assembly during the session of October 1782, see On 26 June 1779 the Virginia General Assembly had adopted “An act declaring who shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth.” This statute declared that “The free white inhabitants of every of the states, parties to the American confederation, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from...
13To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 30 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
In this paragraph, Randolph interlineated “James river” and “of ground.” Since 1623 the Virginia General Assembly had designated public warehouses for the reception, inspection, and taxing of tobacco. The warehouse at “this obscure place,” Richmond, was “Shockoe’s,” on Shockoe Creek near its confluence with the James River (
14To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 20 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly was scheduled to convene on 21 October. Randolph foresaw that factionalism would necessitate his transmitting much information about the session to JM in code.
15To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 27 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
“An act for appropriating the public revenue,” passed by the Virginia General Assembly on 1 July, did not include the armed forces of the commonwealth among those listed in the statute who would benefit from the payment of “all arrears of wages, or salaries” (Randolph meant, of course, his comments upon the proceedings of the Virginia General Assembly at its October 1782 session. See
16To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 October 1782 (Madison Papers)
, XXXIII [1927–28], 544–52). Using British precedent as a general model, the Virginia General Assembly on 12 December 1776 stipulated that the defendant in a trial for treason could only “be legally convicted of open deed by the evidence of two sufficient and lawful witnesses,” or his own voluntary confession (
17To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 October 1782 (Madison Papers)
...the concurring opinions, to the extent that they are revealed by Pendleton’s own notes on the “Case of the Prisoners,” were not completely in accord, the majority held that the Virginia General Assembly lacked constitutional authority to violate the Form of Government, that the statute at issue did not embody such a violation beyond a reasonable doubt, and, much less clearly, that the oaths...
18To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 8 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
. The statute of the Virginia General Assembly which encouraged each of her citizens owing money to a British subject to wipe out the debt by paying its amount into the treasury of the state included no stipulation that the debtor must tender the real rather than the......the annual election of a governor “by joint ballot of both Houses” of the Virginia General Assembly. His tenure was limited...
19To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, [16] November 1782 (Madison Papers)
, and n. 4. In spite of Randolph’s “very little hope,” the Virginia General Assembly before the close of the year authorized the payment of a small portion of the state’s quota. See
20To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
That is, particularly “the transactions” of the Virginia General Assembly.. On 28 December 1782 the Virginia General Assembly amended the act of 2 July of that year for the “seizure and condemnation of British goods, found on land” by providing that it should take effect on 1 April 1783 rather than when “the rest of the...
21To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 13 December 1782 (Madison Papers)
Instead of using 567, meaning “delegate,” Randolph wrote 566, standing for “Senate.” For the opposition in the Virginia General Assembly by Patrick Henry and other leading delegates to Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, and their partisans, see A thinly attended session of the Virginia General Assembly, which had been
22To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 3 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
This paragraph recapitulates Randolph’s comments about the repeal on 6 and 7 December by the Virginia General Assembly of its ratification of the proposed impost amendment to the Articles of Confederation in , Randolph had questioned the constitutionality of the annulment by the Virginia General Assembly of its ratification of the amendment. See
23To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 1 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
, III, 398, 399, 417, 427–28, 435). On 28 December 1782 the Virginia General Assembly empowered “the governor, with the advice of council” to sell the horses “in case the said legion be reduced by enlisting into the continental or other service” (
24To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 7 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
, I, 300–301). It was probably Page, a member of the House of Delegates, who persuaded the Virginia General Assembly on 30 May of that year to “discharge” Wormeley “from his present confinement” and permit him to reside again at Rosegill (
25To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
On 1 June 1782 the Virginia General Assembly appointed a committee of five, including Randolph, “to collect all Documents and Proofs necessary for establishing the Right of this State to it’s Western Territory” (
26To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
For a summary of the contents of a statute enacted by the Virginia General Assembly on 2 July 1782 for recruiting Virginia continental troops, see
27To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 1 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
any government position in the future. Possibly as a result of the “dangerous combination” to which Randolph referred, the Virginia General Assembly on 28 June 1783 enacted a comprehensive statute which replaced those penalties with “death as in case of felony, without benefit of clergy” and precisely defined the legal form of a printed tobacco note. This law also repeated...
28To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 7 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
do not mention Patrick Henry. Randolph, who was a correspondent of Henry, regretted that his influential friend had not been present in the October 1782 session of the Virginia General Assembly (Archibald Cary, speaker of the Senate, and John Tyler, Sr., speaker of the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly. See
29To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
Having received from the governor and the Council separate statements defending their opposing constitutional views, the Virginia General Assembly at its session of May 1783 took no action except to refer them to the committee of the whole house on the state of the commonwealth. Evidently, however, the position of the councilors prevailed, for on 10 December...
30To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 29 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
The vote on 6 and 7 December 1782, by which the Virginia General Assembly repealed its ratification of the proposed impost amendment to the Articles of Confederation, was not tallied in the journal of the House of Delegates (. 1787), were re-elected as delegates from New Kent County to the Virginia General Assembly (
31To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 April 1783 (Madison Papers)
The journal of the House of Delegates during the May 1783 session of the Virginia General Assembly emphatically supports Randolph’s comments. See also the
32To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 9 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
, and n. 10) had been less certain of the course Patrick Henry would pursue. Although Henry returned to his home two weeks before the adjournment of the Virginia General Assembly on 28 June, he shared prominently in the proceedings of the House of Delegates during the month beginning on 12 May (
33To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
...after being apprised of Rhode Island’s refusal to approve the proposed 5 per cent impost amendment to the Articles of Confederation but before receiving word of the Virginia General Assembly’s recision of its ratification of that amendment, Congress adopted a long report, drafted by Hamilton, urging the Rhode Island legislature to reverse its action. By May 1783 the coming of peace,...
34To 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...
35To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 28 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
, May 1783, p. 75). On 5 May Governor Harrison submitted a copy of the decision to the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly (
36To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 12 July 1783 (Madison Papers)
of war,” Harrison evidently assumed that an ordinance of 1776 and two statutes of 1780 and 1782, respectively, which were to continue in force “during the war,” and which the Virginia General Assembly in its session of May 1783 had refused to repeal, amply justified the contents of his proclamation (
37To 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...
38To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 23 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
...country, and the lower Mississippi Valley, and hence that Pollock had listed most if not all of his charges for goods in depreciated currency, Jefferson, the Council of State, and soon the Virginia General Assembly joined “in renouncing that assumpsit.” Jefferson wrote on 1 January 1781, “as our Assumpsit was on Mr. Nathans own Word we do not think that any Error into which we have...
39To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 13 September 1783 (first) (Madison Papers)
...of residence in England, Francis Corbin (1759–1821) studied at Cambridge University and the Inner Temple in London. He was a delegate from Middlesex County in the Virginia General Assembly for a decade beginning in 1784, and an influential member of the Virginia Convention of 1788 which ratified the Federal Constitution. Although elected on 20 February 1792 to the Congress of the...
40To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 27 January 1784 (Madison Papers)
In 1785 George Hancock, Jr., was appointed colonel of Botetourt County militia, and in 1787 county attorney for the commonwealth. From 1784 to 1787 and in 1792 he served as a delegate to the Virginia General Assembly (
41To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 12 June 1786 (Madison Papers)
suffered from a chronic attack of gout that autumn and failed to attend both the Annapolis gathering and the October 1786 session of the Virginia General Assembly.
42Edmund Randolph to Virginia Delegates, 3 August 1788 (Madison Papers)
The enclosure was probably the resolution of the Virginia General Assembly of 29 Oct, 1787 relating to the settlement of accounts between Virginia and the U.S. The resolution requested Congress to authorize the Continental commissioner for settling these accounts to accept the ledgers of the state auditor and treasurer...
43To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 23 April 1789 (Madison Papers)
On 30 Dec. 1788 the Virginia General Assembly provided for the discontinuation of the state customs offices once Congress had established a national collection system (
44To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
...the parishes of the established church for the care of the poor, although dissenters charged they were not always used for that purpose. At the October 1789 session of the Virginia general assembly, seven Baptist congregations petitioned the house of delegates that all lands belonging to the church should be sold and “the churches heretofore used by the Episcopalians, may be used in...
45To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 10 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
14:363. The Virginia general assembly passed acts establishing state banks at Alexandria and Richmond on 23 Nov. and 23 Dec. 1792, respectively (see
46To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), of Caroline County, served in the Virginia general assembly, 1752–78, the Continental Congress, 1774–75, and as the president of the Virginia court of appeals, 1778–1803....1726–1806) served in the Virginia general assembly, 1754–55, 1758–78, and the Continental Congress, 1775–76, signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He became a member of the High...
47Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, [ca. December] 1799 (Madison Papers)
These “hasty notes” were most probably replies to queries (not found) that JM had posed to Edmund Randolph sometime during the early days of the Virginia General Assembly session in 1799. In his research for that part of the Report of 1800 that dealt with the common law, JM no doubt surveyed the handful of important court decisions that supported the doctrine that the English common law...