1. The Virginia House of Delegates on 17 Dec. 1781 unanimously adopted a resolution thanking General Washington “for his late glorious services at Yorktown” and assuring him that “the conspicuous merit and exalted virtue, which his character uniformly exhibits, will ever excite the warmest love and gratitude of his countrymen” (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond, In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , Oct. 1781, p. 42). Washington replied on 8 Jan. 1782 to the House, and on 5 Feb. to the Senate, which had passed a separate resolution on 8 Jan. 1782 (Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington description begins John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, from the Original Sources, 1745–1799 (39 vols.; Washington, 1931–44). description ends , XXIII, 435, 484–85).

2. By resolutions of 17 and 18 Dec. 1781 the House and Senate of Virginia thanked Lafayette for his military service in that state and authorized a marble bust of the Marquis to be made in Paris, where it would be presented to him “as a lasting monument of his merit, and of their gratitude” (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond, In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , Oct. 1781, pp. 43, 46; Papers of Madison description begins William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (9 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). description ends , III, 302, 303 n. 6). In his reply to Randolph on 8 Jan. Washington agreed with Randolph’s comment by writing, “I am not a judge of the Etiquette upon these occasions, but it really does seem odd to me to present a man with his own likeness” (Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington description begins John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, from the Original Sources, 1745–1799 (39 vols.; Washington, 1931–44). description ends , XXIII, 435 and n. 65).