1To George Washington from Ralph Wormeley, Jr., 12 May 1799 (Washington Papers)
Ralph Wormeley, Jr. (1744–1806), of Rosegill in Middlesex County, was educated at Eton and at Cambridge University. During the Revolution he was suspected of Loyalist tendencies. Although he was elected to the Virginia house of delegates several times in the late 1780s, he took little part in politics.
2To George Washington from David Stuart, 2 May 1799 (Washington Papers)
...s informant was mistaken as well about the defeat of Republican Matthew Clay (1754–1815) of Pittsylvania County: Clay kept his seat in Congress. Mr. Clark is probably William Clarke of Pittsylvania County who had served in the Virginia house of delegates from 1796 to 1798, first as a Republican and later as a Federalist. For references to the elections, see
3To George Washington from Bushrod Washington, 26 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
Henry Smith Turner and George Garner, both Federalists, were elected to the Virginia house of delegates from Westmoreland County. John P. Hungerford
4To George Washington from William B. Harrison, 24 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
...role in opposing Jay’s Treaty had made him an anathema to the Federalists, lived at Raspberry Plain in Loudoun County. William Ellzey, Jr., a county surveyor, at this time was one of the members of the Virginia house of delegates for Loudoun County. Militia captain
5To George Washington from Bushrod Washington, 10 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
to inform him of the election of Light-Horse Harry Lee to Congress and of “two federal men” to represent Westmoreland County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
6To George Washington from John Marshall, 8 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
James Madison wrote the resolutions opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts, known as the Virginia Resolutions, or Virginia Resolves, which John Taylor (1753–1824) of Caroline County introduced in the Virginia house of delegates on 13 Dec. (
7To George Washington from David Shepherd Garland, 24 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
David Shepherd Garland (1769–1841), a native of Amherst County and a member of the Virginia bar, was elected to the Virginia house of delegates from his county eighteen times between 1799 and 1835. He was elected to the state senate in 1809 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1810 and 1811.
8To George Washington from Edward Graham, 9 March 1798 (Washington Papers)
). Edward Graham represented Kanawha County in the Virginia house of delegates in 1797 and 1798. His brother, the Rev. William Graham (1746-1799), was the founder of Liberty Hall Academy in Lexington, which became Washington (later Washington and Lee) College. At this time William Graham was...
9To George Washington from Elizabeth Swan Bornick, 8 March 1798 (Washington Papers)
Hardin Burnley (1761–1809), Mrs. Bornick’s half brother, represented Orange County in the Virginia house of delegates from 1787 to 1790. From 1791 until 1799 Burnley served on the Virginia council of state. He was probably the “Brother in richmond” who refused her aid. The brother in Orange was either her brother Swan Jones...
10To George Washington from Miles King, 27 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
...King (1747–1814), a merchant in Hampton, served intermittently on coastal patrols in Virginia during the Revolution. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates from Elizabeth City County in 1777 and 1778 and served in that body continuously from 1784 until 1798. He also was a member of the Virginia convention that ratified the federal Constitution in 1788. He was not appointed...
11To George Washington from Henry Lee, Jr., 15 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
Lee was reelected to the Virginia house of delegates from Westmoreland County.
12To George Washington from William Blount and William Cocke, 17 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
...present-day boundary between Virginia and Tennessee. He became a militia captain and took part in frontier defense in 1774 during Lord Dunmore’s War. Cocke represented Washington County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1777 to 1778, and held public office in the short-lived State of Franklin, formed from western counties of North Carolina. He served several years in the North Carolina...
13To George Washington from Elkanah Talley, 16 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
...College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) in 1776 and was later admitted to the bar. He served as an officer during the Revolutionary War, and from 1789 to 1791, he represented New Kent County in the Virginia House of Delegates. Clopton was elected to Congress in 1795, and except for a brief period, he remained in office until his death.
14To George Washington from David Stuart, 18 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
Stuart’s letter to Charles Simms, then a representative in the Virginia House of Delegates from Fairfax County, has not been identified. Simms’s service in the legislature ended when that body adjourned on 27 December. There is no record of Virginia legislation on immigrants and voting privileges in 1796. Virginia citizenship law......Virginia House of Delegates “agreed to a resolution relative...
15To George Washington from the Militia and Citizens of Frederick County, Va., 12 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
William McGuire (1765–1820), a lawyer and former Revolutionary War officer, represented Frederick County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1797 until his appointment in 1798 as the first chief justice of the Mississippi Territory, a position he resigned in 1800. He served as military storekeeper of ordnance at the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry from...
16To George Washington from Landon Carter, 28 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Landon Carter (1751–1811) of Cleve was the grandson of Robert “King” Carter and the son of Charles Carter (1707–1764). Landon represented King George County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1780 to 1781.
17To George Washington from Joseph Buell, 18 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
Edward Graham (d. 1840) represented Kanawha County in the Virginia House of Delegates for the 1797–98 session. His affiliation with Washington College (formerly Liberty Hall Academy) included service as a trustee from 1807 until his death.
18To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 27 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Tinsley (d. 1822), a Revolutionary War veteran and militia colonel, represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
19To George Washington from Burgess Ball, 29 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Ball probably is referring to Samuel Clapham (d. 1826), who represented Loudoun County in the 1797–98 and 1798–99 sessions of the Virginia House of Delegates. Clapham, the son of Col. Josias Clapham, was a militia captain. GW purchased some clover seed for Ball on 7 March 1796 (
20To George Washington from Staunton, Va., Academy Trustees, 16 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Previously from Botetourt County, Archibald Stuart (c.1757–1832) represented Augusta County in the Virginia House of Delegates at the sessions of 1786–87 and 1787–88, and he represented Augusta and other counties in the Virginia Senate for three sessions beginning in 1797, serving as speaker of the Senate in the session of 1799–1800....
21To George Washington from Edward Carrington, 10 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
In the Virginia House of Delegates, Henry Lee represented Westmoreland County; Charles Lee, Fairfax County; John Marshall, Richmond City; Robert Andrews, Williamsburg; Francis Taliaferro Brooke, Essex County; Mann Page (1749–1803), Spotsylvania County; and Joseph Eggleston (1754–1811)...
22To George Washington from Petersburg, Va., Citizens, 1 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
...military service as a captain in the Virginia line, 1776–78. Jones received appointment as a militia colonel in 1784, brigadier general in 1793, and major general in 1802. In 1793 he served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Dinwiddie County.
23To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 17 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
developed an interest in politics after the war and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1783. Four years later Mason was elected as a state senator and served in that body until 1790. In 1794 Mason was elected to the U.S. Senate when GW appointed James Monroe as the new U....
24To George Washington from Charles Carter of Ludlow, 23 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Charles Carter (1765–1829) was the son of Edward Carter (1733–1792) of Blenheim, a planter who represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1766–68, and the Virginia House of Delegates, 1783–85 and 1787–88.
25To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 10 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
On 14 Dec. 1791 the Virginia House of Delegates had resolved “That the period of fifteen days from the day on which the House of Delegates shall annually form a House, be prescribed for the reception of petitions.” This resolution also referred to a standing order “...
26From the Commissioners Sent to Western Pennsylvania, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
William McKinley represented Ohio County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1798-1804, 1806-7, 1820-21, and 1824-26. He also represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress, 1810-11.
27To George Washington from Burgess Ball, 19 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
Robert Brooke (c.1761–1800), a Fredericksburg lawyer, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Spotsylvania County from 1791 through 1794. He was elected governor on 20 November. After the completion of his second term, he became attorney general of Virginia in 1796.
28To George Washington from Charles Mynn Thruston, 21 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
...-1812) was an Episcopal minister who served as a military officer during the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars. Thruston, who did not resume his ministry after the Revolutionary War, represented Frederick County at five sessions of the Virginia House of Delegates between 1782 and 1788 and served as a county judge.
29To George Washington from the Magistrates of Montgomery County, Virginia, 29 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
...Francis Preston (1765–1836), brother of Capt. Preston and a 1783 graduate of William and Mary College, practiced law in Montgomery and Washington counties. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1788–89 and 1812–14, and in the Virginia Senate, 1816–20. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1793–97, after which he settled in Abingdon, Va., and resumed his law practice...
30To George Washington from George Lee Turberville, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
...–c.1797) in 1782, and they had three children:
John, Martha Felitia (1786–1822), and Elizabeth Tayloe. A veteran of the Revolutionary
War, rising to the rank of major, he represented Richmond County in the Virginia House
of Delegates, 1785–89, and served as that county’s sheriff in 1798.
31To George Washington from William DuVal, 6 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
William DuVal (1748–1842) was a lawyer, businessman, and veteran of the Revolutionary
War. He married Lucy Ann Pope (1753–1795) in 1772 and after her death, Susan Brown
Christian. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1782, and was the mayor of
Richmond, 1805–6 (Bessie Berry Grabowski,
32Resolutions from Shenandoah County, Virginia, Citizens, 13 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
William Aylett Booth (1754–1820) represented Shenandoah County in the 1790 session of
the Virginia House of Delegates and served as sheriff and county treasurer,
1799–1801.
33To George Washington from Ludwell Lee and Roger West, 21 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Ludwell Lee (1760–1836), a son of Richard Henry Lee, was a lawyer who served three
terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1787–90, and represented Prince William
and Fairfax counties in the Virginia Senate, 1792–1800.
34Enclosure: Resolutions from the Albemarle County, Virginia, Citizens, 10 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
William Woods (1738–1819) was a Baptist minister who completed Nicholas’s term in
the Virginia House of Delegates, 1799–1800. He later moved to Kentucky. Thomas Mann
Randolph (1768–1828), Thomas Jefferson’s son-in-law, represented Virginia in the
U.S. Senate, 1793–94, and in the U.S. House, 1803... ...the Virginia House of Delegates, 1801–4,...
35To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 15 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
...not been found. His daughter Mary Randolph Spotswood (d. 1803) married Francis Taliaferro Brooke (1763–1851), a Revolutionary War veteran, in October 1791. Brooke represented Essex County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1794–95, and served in the Virginia Senate, 1800–1804, acting for thirteen months as speaker. In January 1804 Brooke was appointed a judge of the General Court, and in...
36To George Washington from Joseph Prentis, 14 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Joseph Prentis (1754–1809) represented York County in the Virginia House of
Delegates, 1778–88, and was speaker from 1786 until January 1788, when he was
elected a judge of the General Court, a position he held until his death.
37Resolutions from Petersburg, Virginia, Citizens, 2 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
...Thomas Griffin Peachy (1734–1810) served as clerk of Amelia County, Va., 1757–91. George Keith Taylor (1769–1815), a brother-in-law of John Marshall, represented Prince George County in the Virginia house of delegates, 1795–96, 1798–99, and was appointed judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1801. Doctors Isaac Hall (1747–c.1806) and John Shore, Jr. (1756–1811), both...
38To George Washington from Leven Powell, 15 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
GW’s letter to Powell of c.10–11 Oct. 1792 has not been found. Powell represented Loudoun County in the 1 Oct.–28 Dec. 1792 session of the Virginia House of Delegates.
39To George Washington from Charles Lee, 4 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
). Later this year Lee was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, in which he served three consecutive terms. Both Col. John Fitzgerald and Vincent Gray wrote letters of application to GW on 5 April 1793, but GW decided to appoint Fitzgerald (
40To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Burwell Bassett, Jr. (1764–1841), represented New Kent County in the Virginia house of delegates 1787–89 and 1819–21, and he was elected to the Virginia senate in 1794, serving there until 1805. He served several terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1805–13, 1815–19, 1821–29.
41To George Washington from Jacob Wray, 13 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
George Wray, Sr., who represented Elizabeth City County in the Virginia house of delegates 1781–85 and 1794, did not receive the appointment of lighthouse keeper at Cape Henry in spite of his recommendations from prominent
42To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 10 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Robert Andrews represented Williamsburg in the Virginia house of delegates from 1790 to 1799. Francis Corbin represented Middlesex County in the Virginia house of delegates from 1784 to 1794.
43To George Washington from Anonymous, March 1792 (Washington Papers)
William Branch Giles (1762–1830) served in the U.S. House of Representatives 1790–98 and 1801–3, in the Virginia house of delegates 1798–1800, 1816–17, and 1826–27, in the U.S. Senate 1803–15, and as governor of Virginia 1827–30.
44Report on Case of Charles Russell, 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Russell, who served as a lieutenant in the Virginia Line from 1776 to 1783, petitioned the Virginia House of Delegates in 1791 for payment of a pension for his military service, pointing out that the land he had been granted for Continental service under the terms of a 1781 Virginia law had since been recognized as part of Chickasaw...
45To George Washington from Henry Lee, 7 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Henry Lee enclosed a copy of a report presented to the Virginia house of delegates on 12 Dec. 1791 by a committee considering the petition of Charles Russell, a veteran of the Virginia line, for a pension in lieu of the bounty lands granted him, which the Treaty of Hopewell had subsequently reserved...
46Enclosure: Statement of Conflict between Pennsylvania and Virginia, 20 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates. The statement itself is an incomplete and sometimes inaccurate account of a highly complex dispute that was a significant episode in the history of the young American republic because it provided the impetus for the passage of the first...
47To George Washington from John Stadler, 25 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
...directed him to present his grievances to Madison to be laid before Congress. Madison refused to submit Stadler’s accounts to Congress, however (ibid., 83). Madison advised Stadler to petition the Virginia house of delegates for reimbursement for his expenses, but the committee of claims rejected Stadler’s request on 8 Nov. 1793 (Stadler to Madison, 22 Oct. 1791, n.8, Madison to Stadler...
48To George Washington from Henry Knox, 15 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
...journal of the executive council of Virginia, dated 29 Dec. 1790, directing measures for the defense of the Virginia frontier. Enclosure number 3 was a copy of the resolutions of the Virginia house of delegates, dated 20 Dec. 1790, authorizing the governor to take measures for the defense of the frontier. Enclosure number 4 was a copy of the memorial of the delegates from the western...
49To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 4 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
. He also enclosed with the 4 Jan. letter a copy of a resolution of the Virginia house of delegates of 20 Dec. 1790 authorizing the governor to take steps for the
50To George Washington from David Stuart, 10 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Thomas West, the eldest son of John West, Jr., represented Fairfax County in the Virginia house of delegates in 1784–85 (