271To 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...
272To 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...
273Motion in re Armed Vessels of Virginia, [28 July] 1783 (Madison Papers)
Arthur Lee presumably introduced the motion. The third paragraph of the motion approximates a recommendation made to Congress on the same day by Secretary at War Benjamin Lincoln in regard to the statute of the Virginia General Assembly “directing the enlistment of Guards for the public prisons and stores” ( ...Virginia General Assembly, although it had instructed the Virginia delegates about...
274From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 12 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly at its session of May 1783 declined to approve the plan for establishing public credit (
275Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 14–15 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
In May 1782 Morris selected Zephaniah Turner of Maryland as his agent for Virginia. Although the Virginia General Assembly on 2 July 1782 extended to Turner “the necessary Aid” of a legal nature to enable him to fulfill his duties effectively, the executive of Virginia by August of the next year had not assembled, and in many... ...designated by the Virginia General Assembly as the official to...
276Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 23 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
. The wish of the delegates to be provided with these data recalls the request of the Virginia General Assembly to be furnished with a detailed financial accounting by Robert Morris, superintendent of finance (
277To 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...
278Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 28 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
John Beckley was clerk of the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly (...may have been Wood’s letter of May (?) 1783, reporting, among other financial data, “the amount of expences incur’d by the state of Virginia for continental purposes.” Harrison had submitted this letter to the Virginia General Assembly at its session of May 1783 (Executive Letter Book, 1783–1786, p. 122,