1From George Washington to William Trent, 4 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...his home between 1768 and 1784 at Trenton, New Jersey. In 1776 the Indiana Company was reorganized, and Trent spent the remainder of the war years trying to make good the company’s claim. He unsuccessfully petitioned the Virginia general assembly in 1779, and between 1779 and 1783 he presented several appeals to the Continental Congress, again without avail.
2From George Washington to John Hancock, 1 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
News of the Virginia general assembly’s choice on 12 Nov. of Daniel Morgan as colonel of one of the state’s new Continental regiments and William Heth as major of another one of those regiments appears in Dixon and Hunter’s edition of the
3Orders to Brigadier General Adam Stephen, 13 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Robert Lawson (1748–1805) of Prince Edward County, Va., a member of the 2d, 3d, and 4th Virginia conventions in 1775 and 1776 and a representative in the Virginia general assembly intermittently from 1778 to 1788, served as major of the 4th Virginia Regiment from 13 Feb. 1776 to 13 Aug. 1776 when he became the regiment’s lieutenant colonel. At this time he was in Virginia attending to...
4From George Washington to John Parke Custis, 22 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
GW may be referring to resolutions passed by the Virginia general assembly on 21 Dec. 1776 and printed in the supplement issue of Purdie’s
5From George Washington to William Shippen, Jr., 3 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
). Although the Virginia general assembly during 1779 authorized Monroe to raise a regiment for service in the Carolinas, he was unable to do so. Early in 1780 Monroe began studying law under Gov. Thomas Jefferson, who the following summer sent Monroe to the... ...the military situation there. Monroe was elected to the Virginia general assembly in 1782, and he served as a delegate to the...
6General Orders, 10 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
...March 1781 he became lieutenant colonel commandant of the 1st Virginia State Legion, serving until 1783. A political ally of Thomas Jefferson and a noted writer on agriculture and politics, Taylor was a member of the Virginia general assembly 1779–81, 1783–85, and 1796–1800. He served in the U.S. Senate 1792–94, 1803, and 1822–24. For Taylor’s testimony regarding Sullivan’s Staten Island...
7From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 27 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
, 4:518, 526. The act of the Virginia general assembly to which GW refers, “An act for establishing a town at the Warm Springs in the county of Berkeley,” passed in October 1776 (
8From George Washington to the Board of War, 2–3 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
off Barbados in June 1777, Dick was committed to Forton prison in Portsmouth, England, in August 1777. Archibald Cary and George Wythe wrote for the Virginia general assembly to Henry Laurens on 12 Jan. 1778 concerning Dick and his fellow prisoners: “when their friends heard last from them [they] were confined close prisoners in Gosport or some other goal, not only destitute of friends,...
9From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 15 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
“An Act for speedily recruiting the Virginia Regiments on the continental establishment, and for raising additional troops of Volunteers,” passed in amended form by the Virginia general assembly on 9 Jan., did include provisions for a limited draft (see
10From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 19 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
...may assure them that money to pay such reward is lodged at head quarters, and will be delivered to them by order of His Excellency General Washington as soon as they return to camp.” The act of the Virginia general assembly providing a bounty of $20 was “An Act for speedily recruiting the Virginia Regiments on the continental establishment, and for raising additional troops of Volunteers”...