1To George Washington from Landon Carter, 31 October–2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Oct. the Virginia house of delegates ordered Thomas Jefferson, Richard Adams, and Bolling...
2To George Washington from Joseph Jones, 22 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
...1777 it was announced in the Virginia house of delegates that Jones “hath desired permission...
3To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 26 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
For the Virginia house of delegates’ action on the amendments to the Constitution, see
4To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
...who then sat in the Virginia House of Delegates, is referring to the selection of “a...
5To George Washington from Colonel James Wood, 12 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
to the Virginia House of Delegates on 4 Nov., and on the following day the...
6To George Washington from Miles King, 27 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
.... He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates from Elizabeth City County in 1777...
7To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
..., a copy of a resolution of the Virginia house of delegates dated 17 Dec. 1789, reads: “Mr...
8To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 4 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
...a copy of a resolution of the Virginia house of delegates of 20 Dec. 1790 authorizing...
9Report on Case of Charles Russell, 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...from 1776 to 1783, petitioned the Virginia House of Delegates in 1791 for payment of a...
10To George Washington from the Militia and Citizens of Frederick County, Va., 12 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...represented Frederick County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1797 until his...
11To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 14 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
). The Virginia house of delegates unanimously resolved on 15 Dec. 1777 to approve and...
12To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 10 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
...Williamsburg in the Virginia house of delegates from 1790 to 1799. Francis Corbin...
13Enclosure: Resolutions from the Albemarle County, Virginia, Citizens, 10 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
...who completed Nicholas’s term in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1799–1800. He later moved to...
14To George Washington from James Madison, 20 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
...s unsuccessful attempt in the Virginia house of delegates to make hemp and tobacco commutable...
15To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
...senators Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson to the Virginia house of delegates is printed...
16Jefferson’s Opinion on Proposal for Manufacture of Woolen Textiles in Virginia, [3 December 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
...because the resolution of the Virginia House of Delegates declared that the proposed...
17To George Washington from David Stuart, 18 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
..., then a representative in the Virginia House of Delegates from Fairfax County, has not been...
18To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 21 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...document. The Virginia house of delegates passed “an act granting free pardon to certain...
19To George Washington from Henry Lee, 7 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
...a copy of a report presented to the Virginia house of delegates on 12 Dec. 1791 by a committee...
20To George Washington from Alexander Henderson, 11 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
...Dec. 1784 the Virginia house of delegates voted 45 to 38 to postpone further consideration...
21To George Washington from Thomas Howells, 14 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Randolph sent GW’s letter to the Virginia house of delegates, where it was identified only as...
22To George Washington from James Duane, 29 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
...of Benjamin Harrison, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, and freed his...
23To George Washington from James Monroe, 15 February 1789 (Washington Papers)
...(1758–1831) was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1782, in 1783–86 served in...
24To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 11 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. 1785 the Virginia house of delegates adopted a resolution calling for the governor to...
25To George Washington from Josiah Parker, 1 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Isle of Wight County in the Virginia house of delegates but was declared ineligible. He was...
26To George Washington from Harrison County, Va., Field Officers, 2 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
This address, drawn up in the Virginia house of delegates in October 1789, reads: “It has been a...
27To George Washington from Samuel G. Dorr, 23 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
...and repesented the county in the Virginia house of delegates as well as in the convention...
28To George Washington from Charles Carter of Ludlow, 23 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
...Virginia House of Burgesses, 1766–68, and the Virginia House of Delegates, 1783–85 and 1787–88...
29To George Washington from James Madison, 4 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
For the action of the Virginia house of delegates on the amendments to the Constitution, see
30To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 26 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
On 1 Jan. 1785 the Virginia house of delegates:
31To George Washington from John Lewis, 13 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
...1757–1800) represented Nansemond County in the Virginia house of delegates from 1784 until...
32To George Washington from Gardoqui, 29 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
.... 1786, the Virginia house of delegates adopted a series of resolutions declaring that...
33To George Washington from Hannah Crawford, 16 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
...On 2 Dec. 1786 the Virginia house of delegates read Mrs. Crawford’s petition ”that her late...
34To George Washington from John Hopkins, 10 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
...stormy: in November 1781 the Virginia house of delegates accused him of illegally acquiring...
35To George Washington from John Allison, 26 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
The journal of the Virginia house of delegates for its May 1777 session has been lost.
36To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 12 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
. Custis represented Fairfax County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
37To George Washington from James Madison, 11 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
...of the unsuccessful attempt in the Virginia house of delegates during this session to amend...
38To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 16 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
...–26). Between 16 and 17 June, the Virginia House of Delegates debated and agreed to a bill to...
39To George Washington from David Shepherd Garland, 24 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
...bar, was elected to the Virginia house of delegates from his county eighteen times...
40To George Washington from Anonymous, March 1792 (Washington Papers)
...1790–98 and 1801–3, in the Virginia house of delegates 1798–1800, 1816–17, and 1826–...
41To George Washington from the Magistrates of Montgomery County, Virginia, 29 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
...counties. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1788–89 and 1812–14, and...
42From the Commissioners Sent to Western Pennsylvania, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
...represented Ohio County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1798-1804, 1806-7, 1820-21,...
43From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel James Innes, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Although the Virginia house of delegates approved the engrossed bill of “An Act for speedily...
44To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
A committee of the Virginia house of delegates appointed to consider a motion
45To George Washington from Edward Graham, 9 March 1798 (Washington Papers)
...represented Kanawha County in the Virginia house of delegates in 1797 and 1798. His brother...
46To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 10 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
...14 Dec. 1791 the Virginia House of Delegates had resolved “That the period of fifteen days...
47To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 2 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
...June 1784 the Virginia house of delegates resolved: “That the Executive be empowered and...
48To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 15 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
..., are printed in the journal of the Virginia house of delegates for 13 Dec.: “Whereas, the...
49To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 5 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. the Virginia house of delegates resolved “that each regular soldier, belonging either...
50To George Washington from John Marshall, 8 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
...Taylor (1753–1824) of Caroline County introduced in the Virginia house of delegates on 13 Dec. (