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Last Years of the House of Burgesses​ 

1773-1776

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=13

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Journal of House of Burgesses ​​1773

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=37&q1=Journal+of+1773

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Journal of House of Burgesses ​​1774

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=109&q1=Journal+of+1774

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Journal of House of Burgesses ​​1775

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=197&q1=Journal+of+1775

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=205&q1=congress

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​5 June 1775

​Forts to be maintained

on the mouth of Kanawha (Fort Pleasant)
and Fort Fincastle

and Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh)

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=219&q1=Fort+Dunmore

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Lord Dunmore takes the gun powder

and his family with him to a ship, escaping from Williamsburg. The rebelling colonists demand payment for that black powder. They take 330 lbs for its disapparance and disband.

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=33&q1=congress

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1773

Minutes of the Committe of Correspondence

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=73

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​1774

Minutes of the Committe of Correspondence

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c024898705&seq=171&q1=congress

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​1775

Minutes of the Committe of Correspondence

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After the French and Indian and Cherokee Wars to Pre-Independence Days​

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House of Burgesses 

1758 to 1761,

Volume 9

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September 14, 1758 to April 10 , 1761

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December 12, 1759 letter from Committee of Correspondence to English Agent Edward Montague

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Colonel George Washington was elected July 24, 1758 with Thomas Bryan Martin are  listed as representing Frederick County 

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1st Session

page 3,  September 14, 1758, to October 12, 1758

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2nd Session

page 49, November 9, 1758 to November 11, 1758

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3rd Session

page 55,  February 22, 1759, to April 14, 1759

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4th Session

page 133, November 1, 1759 to  of November 21, 1759

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5th Session

page 157, March 4, 1760  to March 11, 1760

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6th Session

page 171,  May 19, 1760 to May 24, 1760

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7th Session

page 183, October 6, 1760 to Dec 11, 1760, and then March 5, 1761 to April 10 , 1761

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King George III assumes the throne 25 Oct 1760.

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This causes a new election of a new set of Burgesses, once they receive this news across the Atlantic.

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House of Burgesses 

1761 to 1765,

Volume 10

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November 4, 1761 to June 1, 1765

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1st Session

page 5, November 3, 1761 to November 14, 1761

George Washington was elected May 18, 1761 with his former aid de camp George Mercer to represent Frederick County VA, but this list shows George Washington was absent for the first session.

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2nd Session

page 33, January 14, 1762 to January 21, 1762

Still listed as representing Frederick Co is George Washington and George Mercer, but Mercer is listed as absent for this 2nd session.

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3rd Session

page 47,  March 30, 1762 to April 7, 1762

Still listed as representing Frederick Co is George Washington and George Mercer, but Mercer is listed as absent for this 3rd session.

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4th Session

page 65,  November 2, 1762 to December 23, 1762

Both George Washington and George Mercer are listed as present for Frederick Co.

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5th Session

page 171, May 19, 1763 to May 31, 1763

Both George Washington and George Mercer are listed as present for Frederick Co.

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6th Session

page 203,  January 12, 1764 to January 21, 1764

Both Fairfax and Frederick County’s representatives are listed absent for this session.

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7th Session

page 227,  October 30, 1764 to December 21, 1764, includes resuming on page 315,  May 1, 1765 to June 1, 1765

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Both George Washington and George Mercer are listed as present for Frederick Co for Oct to Dec meeting

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Both George Washington and George Mercer are listed absent for the 2nd meeting of this 7th session in May to June.

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Page viii, Volume 10:

Hening, in his “Statutes At Large,” records the acts of this session of the Assembly as passed in October, 1765. Stanard likewise assumes that two session were held during that year. Both are in error, however, as the acts recorded by Hening under date of October, 1765, were actually passed at the May session of the same year.

… no session of the Assembly was held in October, 1765,  is attested by the fact that the new Assembly, which followed as the result of the dissolution proclamation of June 1 of 1765, did not take the oath of office until Thursday the sixth of November, 1766.

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Draft of Resolution against the Stamp Act 

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House of Burgesses 

1766-1769, 

Volume 11

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George Washington along with John West is listed as representing Fairfax County VA.

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1st session, page 11, November 6, 1766 to December 16, 1766

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Journal 1767, page 81, March 12, 1767

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Journal 1768, page  141

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Journal 1769 May Session, page 187

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Journal 1769, November Session, page 225

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Privy Council to the Governor

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Records of  1606-1737 preserved by Thomas Jefferson.

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November 1, 1739 to May 7, 1754, Council of Virginia :

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0001977800;view=1up;seq=5

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HENING’S STATUTES AT LARGE

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http://vagenweb.org/hening/

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Beginning in 1807, Jefferson lent many of his volumes of Virginia law to William Waller Hening, clerk of the Chancery Court in Richmond, who published them in his compilation, The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Richmond, 1809-1823). Multiple editions of the Statutes at Large are available online at HathiTrust Digital Library External.

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Northern Neck Legalities

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Lord Fairfax Grant timeline

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Freeholders and Freemen

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When Freemen could vote along with Freeholders in Virginia

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Berkeley, Bacon, Culpeper, Howard

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TITHABLES

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In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia, the term “tithable” referred to a person who paid (or for whom someone else paid) one of the taxes imposed by the General Assembly for the support of civil government in the colony. In colonial Virginia, a poll tax or capitation tax was assessed on free white males, African American slaves, and Native American servants (both male and female), all age sixteen or older. Owners and masters paid the taxes levied on their slaves and servants.

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Then the list of tithables was expanded.

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Interesting list here

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?q1=house+of+burgesses&field1=ocr&a=srchls&ft=ft&lmt=ft

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Journals of the House of burgesses of Virginia, 1619-[1776] v.13

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t1mg7wm99&seq=223

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