1[July 1770] (Washington Papers)
...Appalachian Mountains. However, much of the territory was opened by treaties signed with the Indians at Hard Labour and Fort Stanwix in 1768. In Dec. 1769 GW brought the Virginia soldiers’ claims to the attention of the current Virginia governor, Lord Botetourt (8 Dec. 1769,
2[Diary entry: 30 July 1770] (Washington Papers)
...Appalachian Mountains. However, much of the territory was opened by treaties signed with the Indians at Hard Labour and Fort Stanwix in 1768. In Dec. 1769 GW brought the Virginia soldiers’ claims to the attention of the current Virginia governor, Lord Botetourt (8 Dec. 1769,
3Remarks & Occurrs. in October [1770] (Washington Papers)
...Hertford, Richard Jackson, George Grenville, Anthony Todd, and William Strahan and such prominent Americans as the Whartons, Benjamin Franklin, Sir William Johnson, George Croghan, and William Trent. On 20 July 1770 the Board of Trade sent Virginia Governor Botetourt extensive information on the Walpole petition (
4[Diary entry: 8 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
...Hertford, Richard Jackson, George Grenville, Anthony Todd, and William Strahan and such prominent Americans as the Whartons, Benjamin Franklin, Sir William Johnson, George Croghan, and William Trent. On 20 July 1770 the Board of Trade sent Virginia Governor Botetourt extensive information on the Walpole petition (
5To George Washington from William Crawford, 10 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
For the opinion handed down by the Virginia governor and council that a claimant under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763 had to be himself present to claim a share of land, see
6From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., [1–15 June] 1776 (Madison Papers)
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7To George Washington from Bartholomew Dandridge, 16 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
...on the state of the Continental army for the Virginia executive council. Afraid of the precedent that Walker’s presence would set for other states, GW appointed Walker an aide-de-camp on 19 Feb. 1777 and then wrote Virginia governor Patrick Henry a few days later requesting him to keep the real reason for Walker’s attendance at headquarters a secret (see
8From John Adams to James Warren, 3 February 1777 (Adams Papers)
but this will last but a little while. In Virginia Governor Henry, has recovered his Health has returned to Williamsbourg, and is proceeding in his Government with great Industry. N. Carolina have compleated their Government, and Mr. Caswell is Governor. In Virginia and North Carolina, they have...
9Session of Virginia Council of State, 14 January 1778 (Madison Papers)
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10From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 23 January 1778 (Madison Papers)
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11Session of Virginia Council of State, 13 February 1778 (Madison Papers)
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12Circular to the Chief Executives of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, 19 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
In a letter dated 1 April that has not been found, Virginia governor Patrick Henry apparently informed GW of the measures he had taken in response to the proclamation on cattle. Henry had laid it before the Virginia council, which resolved
13From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 6 March 1778 (Madison Papers)
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14Patrick Henry in Council to Henry Laurens, 8 July 1778 (Madison Papers)
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15From George Washington to Andrew Lewis, 15 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
but it was not granted to them until Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson did so on 14 July 1780. GW had claimed this tract as part of the 5,000 acres of western land that were allowed to him by the Proclamation of 1763 for his military services during the...
16Session of Virginia Council of State, 10 November 1778 (Madison Papers)
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17Patrick Henry in Council to Virginia Delegates in Congress, 14 November 1778 (Madison Papers)
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18Patrick Henry in Council to Henry Laurens, 23 November 1778 (Madison Papers)
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19To George Washington from Colonel Theodorick Bland, 17 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
, 1:355). On 20 Feb., Congress instructed the Board of War to authorize the Virginia governor and council to distribute the Convention prisoners within the state as they thought proper (
20From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
...At this place on the draft manuscript, Hamilton first wrote and subsequently struck out the following sentence: “These acts are founded on principles and views a good deal correspondent to those I have taken the liberty to recommend.” Virginia governor
21To George Washington from Major General William Phillips, 29 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
For Virginia governor Patrick Henry’s concern about the quartering of Convention Army officers in Richmond, see his letter to John Jay of 28 Jan., quoted in
22To George Washington from Andrew Lewis, 15 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Dunmore had granted John Connolly a tract of 2,000 acres at the fall of the Ohio River on 20 Oct. 1773 (see ...tract, located on the Kanawha River about six miles above present-day Charleston, W.Va., had been surveyed for GW and Andrew Lewis on 26 May 1775, and it was granted to them on 14 July 1780 by Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson (see
23From George Washington to Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg, 1 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
letter of 9 Jan. from Virginia governor Patrick Henry
24To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 2 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
[Hening], 9:588–92). For GW’s selection of Brig. Gen. Charles Scott to fulfill Virginia governor Patrick Henry’s request for a recruitment officer, see GW to Henry,
25From George Washington to Brigadier General Charles Scott, 6 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed list of officers has not been identified. For GW’s correspondence with Virginia governor Patrick Henry concerning recruiting officers, see his letters to Henry of
26From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Patrick Henry wrote Bland from Williamsburg in a letter of 29 May, which reads: “The board of war have just told me that four hundred suits of clothes are ordered in for your corps, that is to say...
27To George Washington from Thomas Burke, 24 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
These letters of 6 Feb., from South Carolina governor John Rutledge to Virginia governor Patrick Henry, and 8 March, from Henry to Rutledge, were read in Congress on 20 March (
28Patrick Henry in Council to John Jay, 11 May 1779 (Madison Papers)
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29To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 18 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Patrick Henry did not write to GW directly about the British incursion, but John Jay enclosed two of Henry’s letters to Congress about it in
30To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 29 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
), but on 10 July, GW wrote to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson in reply to Jefferson’s letter to him of 19 June, and expressed his hopes that Clark would be able to follow up his victory with a move on Detroit (
31From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 9 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Jefferson, who had replaced Patrick Henry as Virginia governor on 1 June, replied to GW from Williamsburg in a letter of 23 July: “Your Letter of the 9th ulto has been taken under consideration, and I have now the pleasure to inform Your Excellency, that the...
32To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 10 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson responded to Scott in a letter of 21 June, written at Williamsburg, that outlined his past efforts to procure clothing and added “that the linen therein mentioned as coming from Petersburgh is come and making up....
33To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
The enclosure presumably was Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark’s letter to Virginia governor Patrick Henry, written at “Kaskaskias Illinois” on 29 April, reporting his capture of the British outpost at Vincennes on the Wabash River. A letterpress of Clark’s letter reads: “A few days ago I received certain...
34From George Washington to John Jay, 23 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
...newspaper, published regularly on Mondays. GW apparently enclosed its issue for Monday, 14 June, which printed a letter from South Carolina lieutenant governor Thomas Bee to Virginia governor Patrick Henry, written at Charleston, S.C., on 5 May: “The enemy having crossed from Georgia to this State, and by a rapid movement got between General Lincoln and Charlestown, are bending their whole...
35To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 13 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
For Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie’s proclamation of 19 Feb. 1754 promising land in the Ohio country to volunteers of the Virginia Regiment, see
36To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 20 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson remarked on this action to spur recruiting in a letter to South Carolina governor John Rutledge, written at Williamsburg on 11 Nov., that in part reads: “It has been matter of real mortification to me...
37From George Washington to Samuel Purviance, Jr., 7 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
For Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie’s proclamation of 19 Feb. 1754 promising grants of land in the Ohio country to volunteers of the Virginia Regiment, see
38From George Washington to John Beatty, 19 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Personally known to GW before the war, John Connolly was Virginia governor Lord Dunmore’s chief representative at Pittsburgh at the outbreak of the war, and, in the fall of 1775, Dunmore commissioned Connolly, a lieutenant colonel, to raise a Loyalist and Indian force west of the Alleghenies. In...
39Circular to the States, 26 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
The letter addressed to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson did not include the first seventy-two words; instead, GW substituted the following: “Your Excellency I make no doubt has been made fully acquainted with the Ordinance established by Congress by their Act of the 23d...
40To George Washington from Colonel Theodorick Bland, 25 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson wrote Samuel Huntington, president of Congress, from Williamsburg on 16 Nov. seeking a new commander “at the Barracks in Albemarle” and approval for steps taken to secure proper guards. Jefferson continued: “The appointment of...
41From George Washington to Brigadier General John Tyler, 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
GW’s first letter of 11 Dec. to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson
42To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
Neither Virginia governor Patrick Henry’s nor Col. Theodorick Bland’s letter has been identified, but see
43Thomas Jefferson in Council to Samuel Huntington, 16 December 1779 (Madison Papers)
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44From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 26 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
GW had been informed about Theodorick Bland’s situation by Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson (see
45To George Washington from Brigadier General William Woodford, 8 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
). Woodford’s letters to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson have not been identified.
46To George Washington from Colonel James Wood, 25 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson wrote Wood from Richmond on 14 July with “a remission of the sentence against La Brune” (
47Circular to the States, 26 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
. The docket of the draft indicates that this circular letter also was sent to Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson (for some content of this letter, which has not been found, see later in this source note). The
48From George Washington to Major General Arthur St. Clair, 2 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The treatment of Henry Hamilton, former British lieutenant governor of Detroit captured at Vincennes in February 1779, had prompted correspondence between GW and Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson (see
49To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 6 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Maryland Council wrote Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson on 2 May: “A Detachment of 3000 Troops is already embarked at the Head of Elk, in a Day or two, to proceed down the Bay of Chesapeake to your State, to reinforce the Southern...
50From George Washington to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 15 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
GW wrote Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson from Morristown on this date: