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...