1From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
not found; altered by Monroe (see note 2) and transmitted to the Virginia General Assembly, 21 Dec. 1801 (In the aftermath of the discovery of the slave conspiracy of 1800, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation allowing for the eviction from the state, rather than the execution, of condemned slaves. By a
2Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 8 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
[passed] on 17 Dec. 1792 and 15 Jan. 1802 the Virginia General Assembly prohibited future grants of river and creek beds in eastern and western
3Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
In mid-December 1781 the Virginia General Assembly acquitted TJ
4Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 8 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; General Assembly [index entry]
5From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 28 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
: under resolutions of the Virginia General Assembly, Jean Antoine Houdon made two busts of Lafayette, one of which was presented to the city of Paris and the other placed in the Virginia Capitol in Richmond (Vol. 8:214–15; Vol. 9:213, 544,...
6From James Madison to James Monroe, 8 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
For Monroe’s 7 Dec. 1801 message to the Virginia General Assembly commending the Jefferson administration and calling for a nonpartisan approach to public service in Virginia, see
7Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 13 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; General Assembly [index entry]
8Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 25 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; General Assembly [index entry]
9From James Madison to James Monroe, 27 November 1784 (Madison Papers)
...Indians, not members of any of the states, provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated.…” (Art. IX). This wording allowed the Virginia General Assembly to declare on 9 June 1779 that “the Commonwealth of Virginia has the exclusive right of a pre-emption, from the Indians, of all lands within the limits of its own chartered territory,...
10From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 February 1796 (Madison Papers)
On various states’ responses to the constitutional amendments proposed by the Virginia General Assembly, see Farnham, “The Virginia Amendments of 1795,”