1Resolutions for an Answer to Governor Botetourt’s Speech, 8 May 1769 (Jefferson Papers)
...in which he sat as a member for Albemarle co. For his own account of the circumstances, see TJ to William Wirt, 5 Aug. 1815. He prepared a draft address (now missing) which was objected to by Robert Carter Nicholas. The amplified version by Nicholas, which was accepted, is printed in
2Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions, 17 May 1769 (Jefferson Papers)
Robert Carter Nicholas,
3Resolution of the House of Burgesses Designating a Day of Fasting and Prayer, 24 May 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
, 1774, also without place or publisher’s name but known to be the work of the Treasurer, Robert Carter Nicholas, who had introduced the Resolution. The Fast Sermon at Bruton Church was delivered by Thomas Price, since, according to Lord Dunmore, Mr. Gwatkin “civilly but with firmness declined being employed for such a purpose” (Dunmore...