, i
llliii
MACAZrNK
OK
Hrsroin
AMI
lirOUItAI'HV,
VOI.N.
IX,
p. 172).
at the clofing
of
November,
1759,
Culpeper
by both
Hampfliire and
his
Mr Marrable was contefted,
ordered (fee
p. 5).
(fee
p.
135).
Mr.
John
Ambler
\inder the
however, was
who
accepted
an
office
of
eledlion had to be held, eligible to re-eledtion, unlefs the
office
which
he
had
iff
of
the
Journals
themfelves.
1
Much
letter
from
James
Abercromby
to
the
Council
of
Virginia,
dated
March
25,
1759.
The
original
thofe colledled
Society
of
Wif-
confin,
and
to
print
the
material
the
period.
(taking both
the Journals
Virginia
in
of members
by
Affembly,
Journal,
the
footnotes
become
which the
17
58-1
761
other feffion
one
Affembly being the gen-
explanation of the great
public warehoufes, the iffue of tobacco notes, the colledlion of
taxes
pages
from thence to the end
of the next feffion of Affembly.   In
February,
1752,
this
in force
The
moft
important
Odober,
1760,
was
the
law
fo
Houfe
Affembly could
the
month
20 '
together
for
a
5'*
three years. It was,
a
fuit-
able
fubftitute that the very unufual courfe was taken of adjourning for
a
been
in full, known to be in
exiftence.
mutilated
copy
in
the
Library
Congrefs
of a printed
Journal in the
probably
know
reverfe blank
page, ninety-
Library
of
Congrefs.
The text
of
the
Jour-
Public
Record
Office
of this
of empires.
of
America,
Frederick
forces
to
enable
eftimated
When
with
the
coming
of
already
France;
and
by
Virginia
pay-
ment
half
in
fervice
till
to
leave
the
the
Affembly
that
frontiers
from
the
it
feemed
that appropriate
view
of
preventing
the
critical
Affembly
began
on
Thurfday
the
q
of
November.
Its
only
providing
that the firft
regiment might be continued in the fer\'ice outfide of the Colony
till
the
had
enlifted
to
the fame
22 **
of
February,
1759,
a
feeling
its
members,
the
Frederick.
requeft
was
Provifion was made for filling the ranks of the regiment
then
in
rangers
enlifted
according
to
; that
Jie members of
hundred men
Colony,
fliould
Point,
and,
moft
important
was continued
of the
be
the
of
the
three
companies
already
lay
them,
flew
retaliate.
of
whom,
on
the
Cherokees
now embraced in Eaftem
while delayed
March,
1760,
three
Affembly
to
the
Englifh
Cherokees
of refcuing thefe
falling
ui)on
man. After this,
 Over
hundred already
ftationed in
fate. The
garrifon, in
Odober,
Cherokees
within
on
the
3
1
for
providing
governor
miglit
to fend them,
the
Indian
war
was
pra(5lically
an
adopted
by
increafed along
all lines.
by
exports. It
at
of them
in May,
Affembly
except
two
till
the
feffion
held
in
Odober,
1760.
Though
in
fervice,
the
neceffity
for
iffuing
of the clergy
of felfifhnefs
the
fala-
ries
paid
in
money
far
below
what
then as it
guise
of
a
meafure
defigned
The
rate
imported,
but
the
their
opera-
tions.
Eameft
efforts
attached as a rider
were,
unfor-
tunately,
never
in
the
Journals,
be
merely
gueffed
at.
Thofe
bills
that
became
 
to
be
repealed
find
being
inhabitants
and
that
many
refufe the
fame motive
inhabitants
of
the
crimination
might
be
than humanity,
confidered
by
this
Affembly
as given in Hening's
 
fuch perfons as may invent ufeful proceffes. The feeling was,
evidently,
that
building
up
the
wafte
money.
in bringing
this cafe
in
the
preamble
agent had
Virginia.
was to
reprefent the
Colony as a whole. The adl was paffed in February,
1759,
and
Edward
He
was
to
be
under
the
diredlion
f)f
a
agent
was
to
be
committee was
that
the
fomewhat
loofely
allowed
unlefs
amended.
Accordingly,
at
the
laft
to
in
times
of
number
number
ftanding
defcribed
entail
to
make
a
fpecified
difpofition
of
ufual for
the refult effecfled in each cafe was,
in
the
opinion
of
the
by refort
to the
might
that the piovifo
be founded
proceedings in reference to
poured
into
ing is
of
Saint
Patrick
a
the
part
but
they
might
originate
of
this
Colony.
did not
Burgeffes, and
if it
had done
committee as
was defeated
indifferent to the
which in
had
of a diplomat
when
to
give way. That he corredlly gauged the feeling of independence which
even
at
that
period
characterized
the
Virginians,
in
1759
or
1760
he
warned
M '
Pitt
that
any
A(5l
of
a
Governor's
Com-
had
gations they
Honor
with their
the
attended
me
to
pay
indif-
penfable
and
Appendages.
If
I,
to be laid
infufflcient for
and more will be
and
him
are
of
and
that
he
Colony.
Ordered,
London
to
Upon a
held
the
2
6 >
day
of
April,
1757,
be expelled this
to
the
moft
vexatious
pafs for
Oflficers
was
fame.
A
Petition
of
fundry
Inhabitants
of
and
any Commodity
made on
Ordered,
That
the
faid
who
Houfe,
Perfons,
tion
all
on
their
read.
referred
to
and report
County, felting forth,
Speech into
Accounts
of
of
Parifh
of
Antrim,
in
the
County
of
Halifax,
Affembly.
Several
Accounts
of
of
Affembly.
M''
Pendleton
reported,
That
the
be
true,
and
had
come
to
a
Refolution
thereupon
with
the
Houfe
of
his
Majefty,
and
the
Prof-
perity
of
Virginia.
to
the
Committee
to
whom
the
Petition
of
Burgeffes
to
the fame
Writs for eledling Burgeffes
for eledling
a Citizen
Effex
Loudoun,
be
and Parifh Levies,
of
take into their
into
Confideration
To-morrow.
is
referred
to
M '
Bland
and
M '
Boiling,
and Supremacy,
and taken
Accounts
of
Monies
difburfed
for
the
;
for
A Petition
two
Years
paft,
'til
prefented
ordered
of this Committee
this Committee
Ordered
prefented to
of
Affembly.
M '
Attorney
from
the
and
M'
Matthew
agreed
to
by
the
Houfe
as
follow:
Refolved,
or
the Time and
and
agreed
to
by
Writ for the eledling
Vagrant,
drafted
purfuant to an A(5l of Affembly made in the Twenty-ninth Year of
his prefent
for
Eledlion,
Pradlices
or
Sitting
Members
fhall
examine
any
like Notice
Examination
do
return
of
Affembly.
A
Meffage
from
of
and then delivered
demands
the
Pence a Sheet
refolve itfelf
into a
Support
Wafh-
ington
and
the
Enemy
at
the
Great
by
the
Affiftance
of
fome
charitable
People
again
fettled
in
April,
1756,
he
with
awav
Captives
by
the
Indians
to
the feveral
Winchefter,
purfuant
to
a
former
provided,
and
M'
Lemuel
Riddick,
M '
Carrington,
laid
off
the faid Petition,
M ' London
their
Confideration,
tions
a
Refolution
upon the Bill
delivered them in at the Table,
where
they
were
again
twice
read,
to refolve itfelf
appointed
to
and
Supremacy,
and
aKo fubfcribed
to
fuch
forth,
A
fetting forth,
thereof, in Presence of
forry
from
the
indifcreetly provoked
left
him
that
Country,
Town of
Grymes.
Alfo
a
prefent
Majefty's
Reign,
Truftees
were
appointed
to
the
Peterfburg, and
Counties of
Roanoke
Roanoke
River
to
his
a
Dan River, in the County of Halifax, to the Land
of
William
Fuqua,
read.
Ordered,
the next
to
Committee upon the faid
were feverally
by
be
referred.
and Supremacy,
Accounts before the
that
allowed the
by
him
be
the
faid
Rivers
for
their
to bring in
faid
Petition.
A
referred, that
thereof, Refolved, It
paffed upon
their
Opinion
thereupon
the
in Chief
at the
Door in
of the
the
out into the
Fort
Ordered,
for
the
enfuing
Year.
Alfo
a
of
this
Colony.
Alfo
a
Time.
A
to
take
into
Ordered, That the
Robert
Wright, fetting forth. That he has been for two Years paft a
Soldier in
Arm
by
praying
in
Petition, and
Ordered, That
Colony, and was
adlual
and
Opinions thereupon, to the
to
take
into
their
further
Confider-
reported. That the
and
he
follow
Arrears
now
the
Pay
Upon a
a Committee to confider
Frederick,
the
Time.
M'
had
had
County
of
Prince
William,
and
had
he read in his Place, and then deUvered in Table,
where
Accounts of the
to
deferted
from
the
Service
; and
John
Harris,
John
in
out
into
Committee.
Pound,
referred to the
a
that
County)
and
came
to
Commanding
Officer
£^&. 7.
4,
but
Seffion
of
Affem-
bly,
it
was
thereupon.
Ordered,
drafted
out
the
of
our
Frontiers,
and
to
fettle
at the fame Time
great Expence
Balance
of
£$8
his
faid
Services,
having
never
yet
received
any
Satifa(5tion for the fame, was prefented to the Houfe and read.
Ordered,
That
M '
read the firft
then
deUvered
in
at
the
in
the
late
Expedition
againft
Michael
Thomas,
Adam
his Place, and
Houfe agree
to
whom
and foimd the
Banks
prefented
A
Slave belonging to
of
him
and
the faid
Affembly, together with the feveral Depofitions
of Witneffes taken and lodged with the
Clerk
Petition,
be
Waller,
of
the
to the feventh Day
Ordered, That the
W
and report the Balance,
the Year
to
the
dif-
Militia
Accounts ;
That
refpedlively,
and
Opinions thereupon,
Committee To-morrow.
where the
they
were
informed
there
with
their
Opinions
thereupon,
Bullets, and
the
Public
Houfe
Captain of
a Company
Shoulder flipt,and
that he
into
the
Allegations
thereof,
and
for
reunit-
ing
Cotinty
Confideration
Return
of
Affembly
William,
and
had
and
then
delivered
in
at
Member
be
at
Liberty
to
examine
Wit-
Perfon
who
voted
at
the
faid
Refolved,
to
the
Heads
of
Objedlion,
diftinguifhing
the
fame
againft
the
Names
of
of Affembly
; as a
printing
the
Laws
of the
Writ for
prefent General
and
then
delivered
by Law.
Ordered, That
faid
Bill
to
the
faid
Bill
to
IFviba^,
a
Rewards
allowed
of
Lewis
Stephens,
in
to
M'
Pendleton,
to
the
intituled. An
Bill
at the Table, where the Amendments were again twice read,
and
agreed
and found
agreed
to
by
in
the
faid
and
found
his
Place,
and
Table,
of
and
the
be
rejedled.
A
Meffage
repealing an
Council,
committed
to
M '
Pendleton,
refolve itfelf
the
Houfe
Committee To-morrow.
American
Regiment.
Alfo
a
Claim
of
Carlyle
and
Dalton,
for
the
itfelf into a Committee to confider of Ways and Means
for
Tuefday
M' Charles Carter
diredled
him
to
report
to
the
Houfe;
then
delivered
M''
Pendleton,
A
attended
examine into the
to
M'
Affembly.
Damages
done
the
Inhabitants
A Claim
of Doctor
whom
the
Claim
Committee
to
whom
and
Place, and then
Sum
of
£14.
los.
to
be
War,
then
laid
Amendments
were
again
twice
the
Houfe.
Ordered,
That
the
out
a
Parcel
an
AcJl
may
pafs
for
that
Purpofe,
was
prefented
the
faid
Petition,
and
bring
Bill
Accounts,
which
laft,
and
then
again
read.
Refolved,
that
the
Account
of
the
faid
James
except in
and
and
a
Blank
therein
William
the
after
Wednefday
next.
Knox,
a Member
i?otw'5 Behaviour
Ordered, That the faid
mentioned,
was
Robert
had come to
from the Service of this Houfe
for
the
Remainder
the Houfe,
according to
Order, a
ordered to
M''
Benjamin
a fecond Time.
Bill,
For
eredlinga
Town
Amendments
ingroffed,
and
read
fuch Allowance
read.
Refolved,
Peter
Pelham
forry
 
a
made
againft
made
againft
fpoke
of
as
a
Member,
rence.
A
Petition
of
Thomas
rence.
The
Houfe
proceeded
appointed to
examine the
of Odober
laft, in
him
;
Ordered,
the
Treafu-
rer's
Accounts,
had
according
to
Order
had
examined all
then delivered in
the
Balances
paid
Treafurer's Hands a
Notes emitted
the
old
Notes
4d.
referved
for
the
Redemption
of
the
burnt
Tobacco
Notes
not
yet
us
Ordered,
Committee
to
Amendment,
as
follow
occafioned
by
Several Claims of
William Dunn, and
the Houfe
and received.
abfent from
Slaughter
hath
already
ment,
three Servants,
to
£25.
13s.
Refolved,
That
M ^
John
Carlyle
£12,.
17s.
8d.
Refolved,
That
Servants
inlifted
into
the
Servant
Man,
William
Hawkins,
according
to
Order,
a
third
faid Bill
and
the
Blanks
therein
filled
up.
Refolved,
and
of
the Payment
Bill
and
Report,
Speaker refumed the
their
Confideration,
the laft and this
Ordered,
received.
to
the
Confideration
Committee
upon
reported. That
intituled. An A^ for
go
up
Refolved,
That
the
Bill
General Affembly of Virginia have lately paffed an A6t, whereby
their
mentioned,
to
iffue
Paper
Notes
foiffued, and
rated at
declared
to
That
your
Petitioners
lawful
Money
your Lord-
fhips the
to
Bargains, and
Contradls, due
of
Profit
Arbitrary,
Notes of a
local, uncertain, and
Exchange
In
fo
far
therefore as that your Memorialifts may be very great Sufferers from
the
Executions, and
Confidcration
an
Adl
for
explaining
and
Queftion, and thereby provide,
the
Bargains or
Contra(5ls; and
otherwife,
between
thefe
Kingdoms
and made
payable according
fuch Cafes, fuch
Payment of any fuch
between fuch Paper
other
Notes,
or
between Sterling
your Memorialifts
fo
far
as
Queen
Anne,
whereby
foreign
Silver
in the
faid Ad;
to receive in
the fame
In
fo
far
therefore
as
that
the
to the Governor
a Committee upon the Bill For raifing
the Sum
of ;£2o,ooo
after fome Time
the faid
and
at
the
Table.
Ordered,
That the Confideration of the faid Report be put oft' till Monday
next.
Land
Ordered,
of
Winchefter,
Town
on
the
the Burgeffes Wages
Place,
and
then
agreed to
to
the
Blackfmith's
and
Farrier's
paid by
therein
filled
up.
Refolved,
That
the
Bill
do
pafs.
carry
That they have
agreed to the
Adt for
the Cherokee
them
therewith.
Virginia
Regiment
is
now
joined,
that it is the Opinion of this Houfe, that the prefent
defence-
no
not
being
willing
to
and the
of
Nicholas
Minor,
in
the
County
of
Loudoun.
4.
For
continuing
following Refolves
of the
to,
viz.
Frontiers, and
for
the
Difcharge
of
M
from
21
of
Odober,
Table.
Letters,
which they had
his Place,
by
the
Houfe,
and
that
he
and
General
Court
laft,
prefented
and
the
laft
to
this
for
the
Defence
of
ufed
in
inform
And being
returned, reported.
Pleafure
that
to exped
I well
ftand
provided
for
till
the
Firft
of
May
only;
but
if
they
are
neceffary for
his Honor.to
every
of
that
fhall
Courfe. And
the
Houfe,
when
they
have
gone
to
the
Clerk,
faid
of
the
third
and
fourth
of this
termined,
That they
do alfo examine what Laws have expired fince the laft Seffion, and infpedl
fuch temporary Laws
End
and report the
are
M''
Harrifan,
M'
Jofeph
Bridger,
W
and
all
Committee is to
be
a
fufficient
Number
prcfented to
the Houfe
faid Committee,
fame
were
Grievances to
and
Grievances.
M'
Thomas
Walker,
a
the
Jtiftice,
reported,
That
the
Com-
then delivered
the County of Northumberland,
w^ere referred
to the
Houfe
and
received,
and
referred
to
the
Confideration
faid
County,
was
prefented
to
the
Houfe
Suffolk,
Petition, were
Confideration of the
Stafford,
complaining
of
Ele(5tion
and
prefent General
referred to the
of
the
faid
Henry
Blagrave,
tainments
given
touching
upper
Settlement
s
at the
faid Eledlion,
repealed.
Alfo
a
Petition
of
fundry
Inhabitants
of
the
Truftees
of
Eaton's
Charity
School
Prince
William,
praying
Benefit
is
of
Peter
Robin
fon
and
bly for
were feverally prefented to the
Houfe
and
Alfo
a
of a
have the fame
Burgefs in this prefent
of
and read, and
the
Allegations
thereof,
and
report
That the faid
Committee reported, They
had had the
queftioned, either
or
fhall
fwear
Quit-Rents for
of the
diftinguifhing
the
fame
whom
he
thought
and in the
:
praying to be
the
public,
was
Gray,
all
fuch
undue
of
Affembly,
that
all
Propofitions,
therein
alfo
mentioned,
referred
to
an Adt,
where
Confideration on
and
wait on the
his Honor
to prefent
the Oaths of Allegiance
have expired
as
where the fame
made
in
the
Ad of Affembly, made in the thirtieth Year of his
prefent
Majef-
10 '
Day
of
June,
Year
pare
Enemy
in
General
Braddock's
Months, and is but
Alfo
a
to
helplefs Sit-
Hotife,
were
Alfo
a
Upon
their Indians,
the Houfe.
the
Governor,
on
Thurfday
Confideration of the faid
upon
the
under their
to
report
to
the
Houfe
Pay
of
till
the
That the
Committee not
him
;
Spencer
Ball,
M''
Read,
M
George
Johnfton,
M
Cabbell,
Mafon,
of
Juftice
have Leave
to withdraw
and Return of M
to
Order,
waited
on
the
Governor
with
that
to allow the faid
Order,
a
Frederickfburg,
fetting
forth,
That
there
are
feveral
Lots
adding
the
to
Seffion
of
this
Affembly,
praying
that
from
a
public
Quay
Lot
burg,
is
very
County, the faid
faid
Court
-houfe
lies in
Anne's
of
the
to the Houfe
be
M''
Bland,
from
ing
to
Order,
had
and
Crofby
Eger,
a
Refolution
his
Place,
twice
read,
and
agreed
faid
William
Shaw
ought
to
be
allowed
the
Sum
of
£60,
the Service
of the
Committee
to the
faid Refolution.
was
to the
the Counties
be taxed in all
the Committee
purfuant
to
gone through
his Place, and
follow:
Refolved,
Eledlions
Jones
to
the
Committee
of
Claims
and
Courts
Braffit,
to
them
referred,
and
agreed
of
his
Leg,
occafioned
Service
and
received
and
referred
to
the
Confideration
of
County,
letting
forth,
That
the
Quantity
of
of late
to
the
thereof, and report the fame,
with their
Opinions thereupon,
of Frederick,
moft of
and
read.
Bill for enlarging the Town of Frederickfburg, that they receive
a Claufe
and
Means
and
after
refumed
the
come
to
a
Refolution
twice
read,
and
agreed
to
of
this
Colony,
of
Odober,
in
the
Years
1764
and
1765;
and
the
agreed
to
by
of
it
Committee that the
of the
faid County.
Swann ought
and
Fairfax
County,
and
others
to
the
Houfe,
Houfe.
Houfe.
Alfo
a
Petition
of
Planters, .Shippers from,
Committee
reduced
the
Neceffities
of
the
many
who
are
obliged
to
buy;
read.
and
agreed
Refolved, That the Propofition from
the County of
refufing,
to
enlift
read,
have unadvifedly fpoken them, as the fame has been averred
by a
protefting
Houfe
againft
from
this
King
and
to
faid
Land
in
of
greater
Value,
to
the
fame
Year
thereof,
and
report
the
fame,
with
their
his
to the
Colony,
or
any
defigned
Injury
to
any
Perfon,
but
folely
moved
ferv'ing
his
Country,
refers
his
the
Committee
of
Claims;
and
report
the
fame,
with
their
Opinions
thereupon,
to
Owners
of
Slaves
may
be
reftrained
from
giving
them
is
reafonable.
Refolved,
That
the
Petition
rejedled.
Refolved,
away
to
weigh
in jiurfuant
to
Upon
a
Motion
made,
Ordered,
received.
Ordered,
That
it
be
an
Inftrudlion
to committed
and other
pafs.
Ordered,
and
it
was
Majefty,
if
the
Men
voted
Ordered,
M Landon Carter
and M ^ Pendle-
to
Order,
prepared
your Honor may
to them referred,
Brafffield
to make the
her Huf-
band a
read.
The
Houfe
ing the
were
day,
and
fay
to the Houfe
from the Virginia Regiment.
A Petition
received Cafh,
fubfifting
; and
it
being
levied
to
pay
be
referred
; That
they
do
examine
the with their
Pennfylvania,
dealing
appointed
to
of Affembly
the
Towns
:»
Prayer of the faid Petition
;
and bring
Return
of
M''
Samuel
Hairftone
General Affembly
Houfe, and are as
was
one,
repay the
that
return
made good
Bedford.
complaining
of
an
undue
Elect-
Matthew
this prefent
upon
a
Report,
at
his
Writs
for
;
were follicited for by M ^
Marrable,
s
Intereft,
by his Orders, but
to
M''
Blagrave
was
Marrable's
was
if
following Words:  This fhall
to
you,
fame
a
Bur-
gefs
the
Eledlion
Affembly
Committee
of
Propofitions
and
Grievances
; That
Commanding
Officer
any
Satiffa(5lion
for
terfon's
Creek,
and the other
poffeffed
than fuffi-
can have no
Juftice
; and
praying
Timber
thereon
for
their
own
Ufe,
be
diflocated Arm
.
the Pay of the Militia, and of the Damages done
the
Inhabitants
allow
the
faid
M''
Charles
which he
the
to the Head of
Bedford, is frivolous
Day, be
about
50
Days,
fo
poor
Indians, fetting forth. That they
ferved
Home
made
little
public Expence, were feverally prefented to the Hoiife
and
read.
of the Committee
laft,
£62
ought
to
be
Committee of Claims
Thoufand Men, to
be continued in
that
the
Hunter,
Printer,
as a
-bound
for
the
ufe
of
the
Court;
do
carry
A
;
to
Court Houfe
pafs
and
read.
Ordered,
to the Committee
and
to
to
An
Ad
to
enable
the
Inhabitants
of
Refolved,
Wednefday
next.
A
mittee of Trade.
Inhabitants
of
the
Cotuity
of
nine
Shillings;
for
every
Pound
pickled
Beef
twelve Shillings
the
County
of
Augufta,
after the
the firft
the
good,
fome
indifferent,
and
the
reft
caufed
Ufe
of.
M
Walker
entered
concluded, M''
thofe
Provifions,
by
Order
before, that he would
fent to
to
remains,
the
faid
M''
in
Augufta,
Execution of the faid Contradl, though not named in it,
which
your
Committee
entirely
great Hard-
in-fpedlion
and
Condemnation
of
fome
Times neceffarily occafioned thereby.
the Forces
ftationed in
and
Contri-
vances
that
are
carried
which
I
could
never
fucceed
but
M ' Randolph,
Ele(5lions; That
Dinwiddie
and
Chefterfield,
therein
mentioned,
be
rejedted.
The
laft
Queftion put that the
prohibit
the
Juftices
on and trading
are eftablifhed,
Town
of
Newcaftle,
in
the
faid
County.
Alfo
a
Petition
of
fundry
Ordered,
thereof,
and
reported, that the
at the
under their Confideration
Dedudlion
oi
£10
a.
Year
47
from
the
Halifax, praying
Propofition from
Refolved,
Refolved,
;
The
firft
Refolution
agree
thereto,
Refolved,
in
the
Affirmative.
fecond
Time,
whom
lutions,
and
County
of
Lunenburg,
praying
the
faid
County
to the Head of Nottoway,
and had come
an Adl,
Alfo
continuing
an
the Houfe.
appointed, prefented
a Committee
upon the
to One
the Shawnefe,
receive
no
M'' Francis Light-
the
Bill,
agreed upon
to
Indians
were
in
the
Service
the
that they are
to be
allowed ;;£io,
Silver
Cloths, to
Campaign.
A
Hanover,
fetting
forth.
the Court Houfe, render
praying
that
the
faid
Coimty
be
Ordered,
That
the
Confideration
faid Bill to the Council for their Concur-
rence.
And
then
the
Houfe
mentioned
was
;
according to
That the Committee
Report, and
come to
the faid
of April,
Indians
And
that
of
the
lived
Covmty of Prince William, before his enlifting as a
Ranger, that
near twenty-two
Petitioner alledged he was a Prifoner in the Goals of
Fort Du
Sum
oi
and
Imprifonment.
then delivered
in at the Table, where the fame were again read,
and are as
the Coimty
Petition from
the Country's
Magazine is
eredled in
of
James
Roberts,
Jun.
Petitions from
the
Rapidan
River
may
be
obliged
to
make
Slopes
give
Security
for
mitted
to
back again to
the
new one
Ordered,
Committee
Confideration, but not
again.
Refolved,
refolve itfelf into
Skirmish before Fort Du
faid
Detachment
Militia drawn
Alfo
a
Petition
of
M'
Attorney,
Eledlions,
for the
Coimty of
Prince William,
faid Refolution was again twice read,
and
agreed
to
by
Affembly
for
the
to the Committee of Claims to regulate
the
faid
Cofts,
Time.
M'
Francis
and
Refolved,
Orange
County,
over
the
Rapidan,
to
the
of
Harbin
is reafonable.
the Petition
the fame
rejedled.
Refolved,
That
Armiftead, praying that
Lancafter,
over
Rappahannock
River,
to
the
the
Lancafter, over the
County of
to
the
to
receive a
Ordered,
That
a
to
to
make
an
Allowance
;
Ordered,
of
Claims
to
allow
the
faid
Claims
A
Claiborne,
Gentleman,
in
Fee
and the
rence.
A
Petition
of
fundry
to the fame
and
then
delivered
the
that
Ordered,
That
the
faid
praying
to
be
adled
any
they judged
not acquainted,
the
faid
Piftols
before
the
faid
Ware-
A(5l
of
Affembly
fundry
Lots
laid
off
made
Part
proper
Streets
City, the faid
there were
as
aforefaid,
which
as
ors of the faid City,
and
Years
1757
and
1758,
in
Confideration
of
the
Increafe
them,
;
faid Petitions
It paffed in the
M'' Bland, from
had had
agreed to
mentioned.
Refolved,
and
John
Burk,
appearing
to
this
of the
Sheriff's CoUedlion
Thomas
Penman,
Keeper
of
the
publick
be
rejedted.
Ordered,
to
make
the
feveral
Allowances
in
the
Book
of
of the County of
Fairfax, in Oppofition to
County of
to the
Upon
a
the
from proceeding
to the Committee of
their Confideration, and had agreed upon a Report, and come
to
a
Refolu-
tion
the
fame
were
and Shirts, which
Refolved,
TA^
George
Johnfton,
M'
Thomas
Mafon
appear
to
them,
to
the
Houfe.
M'
Pendleton,
put in
was prefented
be referred
Fees,
to dock the Intail
of certain Lands whereof
for reducing the
to
be
Committee,
the
faid
Bill
dire<Sled him to move for Leave to fit again.
Refolved,
That
of 12
conformable to the Doctrine
be
diffolved,
the
Ordered, That the
Grievances; that they do examine into the Matter thereof, and
report
for Courts
the
Coim-
ties
of
Effex
diredled
Opinion of this
of
Spotfylvania,
be
rejedled.
this
Committee,
That
fo
much
Opinion of this Committee, That all the Donations in the
faid
Petition
mentioned,
of the
rejedled.
Refolved,
and the
Queftion feverally
off
till
To-morrow.
The
fifth,
fixth,
and
feventh
and
the
Quef-
tion
and
brought in purfuant
according
to
Order,
a
Bill
for
other
Purpofes
and
for
other
Purpofes
therein
mentioned.
M''
Wythe,
according
to
Refolved, That the Allegations of
the Petition
mentioned.
John
Moretofi
and
Thomas
Moreton,
as
relates
that
the
reft
of
John
Sutherland
and
Michael
Wallis,
Surgeons,
Juftices
oi
which
Houfe,
a
Bill
Upon a
and read a third Time.
M^
Table,
on
Rappahannock
River,
in
the
faid
the County
of
was
read
a
fecond
Time.
Ordered,
Claims,
reported,
where they were again
a fecond
Prince
William,
the
Matter
immediate
Confideration
Ordered,
examined
and
confidered
all
the
publick
on
the
Table.
A
a Claufe
M'' Wythe
of the two
Inhabi-
tants
for
holding
Courts
with fome Amendments.
a
Order, a
Time,
and
Adt for appointing an
for vefting
for other Purpofes therein
: and
raifing
the
the
fame.
70
Refolved,
a
fecond
Time.
M'
Committee had made
delivered the
Thoufand Men, to
December
next
Committee had had the
faid Bill under their
ing Courts in
Ordered, That
M Charles
Carter do
Concurrence.
A
Meffage
from
the
An A(5l
for vefting
certain Lands,
of
Redemption of
the Treafury
of Claims, reported. That the Committee had, accord-
ing to
Damages hythe
to
the
Members of
morrow.
And
then
the
Houfe
therein
mentioned,
to
Robert
ient
before
this
Houfe,
fecond
Time,
the
Council
Ad
for
vefting
Owners of
in his
faid
Amendments
were
twice
read,
1759.
THE
Houfe
be
put
off
till
To-morrow.
M '
Charles
Carter,
this
Houfe
for
the
Wal-
ker's
Conduct
continuing the
An
Adl
for
repeahng
the
Adl
for
altering
the
fome
Amendments,
to
which
they
defire
the
Concurrence
of
this
Houfe.
the inrolled Bills,
Treafurer's
Hands
£3993.
16.
11,
refer\'ed for the Redemption of the old Notes bearing
Intereft,
fo
remaining
ftill
yet
taken
;
and there is in the Treafurer's Hands, of the Fund appro-
priated
for
their
Redemption,
£4590.
7.
8,
Sum
of
^£3500
the
Accounts.
Duty
on
Tobacco
in
1758,
of
the
General
the
Houfe,
That
due
from
many
of
their Confideration
that
again
bring
and it is referred to
M' Cary to prepare
ftated an
as
tollows:
Refolved,
one
Ad.
J.
For
further
continuing
an
Ad,
in Money,
and
Officers
Fees,
Time.
M'
Committee
of
in
a
feveral
Companies
of this Colony; and that M'' Harrifon do wait on
him
to
Frontiers
Shawnefe
to
fumifh
fuch
Volunteers
500
to
Propoiitions
and
Grievances,
to
Frcdcrickfhurg
and
Winchefter,
was
com-
mitted,
had
made
third Time.
An Adl for dividing
for
further
continuing
fo
much
of
the
Ad
of
Affem-
raifing
and
impofing,
colleding
the fame
M'
County
a
a
third
Time.
M'
Charles
the
Bill,
Warehoufe
at
upon
the
faid
Bill
To-morrow.
M'
Charles
Carter
reported.
That
the
Committee
of
Houfe, with an Amendment.
the
Ju£-
tices
of
a Bridge
Time.
An
engroffed
Ordered,
That
Propofitions and
committed,
his
Place,
and
the
Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Table, where the Amendments
were again
Relief of the poor
Weftmoreland,
under
had
had
the
faid
a Committee
therein
filled
up.
Refolved,
Bill
A Bill For diffolving the Veftry of the Parifh of
Suffolk,
in
the
Coimty
of
Nanfe-
mond,
and
was read
engroffed,
and
Eleven  'Clock.
Concurrence.
An
engroffed
Bill,
intituled,
Refolved,
That
Concurrence.
An
engroffed
Juftices
of
Dinwiddie
from
obliging
the
Juftices
of
Chefterfield
to
join
Ordered, That the said
M '
feveral
Ordered,
Houfe,
whom they
are due,
and ftated the fame in a Book, which he delivered
in
at
the
Table,
where
it
was
for
preventing
Mutiny
and
Defertion,
and
for
other
Purpofes
therein
mentioned.
M'
the
thereto,
at
the
Table,
Treafurer
of
lay
before
this
Houfe
feveral
whole
Whitehall
tmder
their
feveral
in
of
this
Colony.
Refolved.
to
Bill or
Bills be brought in purfuant to the faid Refolutions, and it
is
much of
of
mentioned.
Alfo
regulating
of
Fifh.
Alfo
Parifh of
other Purpofes therein mentioned.
in building
the
Bill,
and it is
The Houfe proceeded to the
Confideration
of
the
Amendments
to
The Order of the
a Committee
the faid Bill
the
Chair,
and
M
Charles
Carter
reported,
That
Amendments
thereto.
Ordered,
Levy, was
Money, was read
Amendment made thereto.
third Time.
Ordered, That
M'' Read
Time.
Refolved,
An engroffed
rence.
Bill
to
the
to
pay
a
Brigade-Major
except
thofe
authorized
by the Governor
faid Agent as may
affect or be for
the Intereft of this
tranfcribed
for
to
certain Sum of Money,
in
public
Levy.
Alfo
to
the
Bill,
to
Majefty,
for
the
better
Protedion
and
Defence
of
this
Colony,
and
for
other
Purpofes
mentioned,
and
for
other
Purpofes
Legacies due
to
the
following
Refolves
geffes,
to
Majefty's Forces,
put a
Reafon,
Fears
of
Diftrefs
and
Poverty.
I
your
refpedive
Retirements,
almoft
faid
the
otily,
Source
of
Riches,
Greatnefs,
accordingly
prorogued,
Houfe, went
from
Governor
Lyttleton
and
Governor
to
defire
the
Affiftance
of
this
Colony
to
fupprefs
them,
earneftly defire
that our
earneftly defire
that our
a very large
the
finifhing
and
completing
it the great Objed
proted their
fully
perfuaded
it
is
intituled,
Lyttleton,
of
South
Caro-
Table.
A
Member
returned
to be
Allegiance and Supremacy, and
Refolved, That an Addrefs be
prefented
to
to
return
him
the
fincere
Thanks
affcdlionate Speech,
all poffible Diligence,
of
referred
to
M''
a
new
M' Travis, who,
fmce his Eledlion, hath accepted of the Office of Coroner of
James
that M'' Cary do
and
read
Governor, to
impartial
Judge,
of
efty,
and
Affedion
Governor
to
know
his
Pleafure
take into their Confideration
put
off
till
Monday
next.
John
whole
Money
complete
and
corredl
having fignified
his Approbation
divers Adls printed in the Revifal,
and
the
many
many different
difficult
it reafonable,
from Time
with the printed
hopes this
honorable Houfe,
Adls tmder its proper
Multiplicity
faid Work
as he
the
Matter
thereof,
to the Houfe.
a Meffage to
referred
to
the
Confideration
of
M' Speaker,
receive the
being returned,
my
moft
to
Confideration
itfelf into
a Committee
them the
of
Allegiance
and
Suprem-
acy,
and
Abjuration,
Dale,
in
the
County
of
Che
fter
field,
to
fell
the
Glebe
Land
read the firft
The
Order of the Day being read, for the Hoiife to refolve
itfelf into
with
ing
read.
Ordered,
laft,
and
referred
Waggons,
500
of Traders
at the
Carter
go
through
Affembly
an
A(5l
and
his
of
Culpeper,
and
re-purchafed
the
faid
Land
to
himfelf
it at prefent
was prefented to
Confideration,
at
the
Table,
where
read, and
agreed to
the
Tail
dock
Tradl, and to fettle five
Slaves whereof
fame
Ufes;
A
the County of
a
fecond
Time,
Ordered,
and read
a third
that he
may be
confidered by
the Houfe,
and
Mr
Charles
Carter
the faid Speech
come
Partof
the
intituled.
An
Ad
and
read,
fetting
forth.
That
by
Will
bequeathed
to
each
of
£500,
with
the
Lands
of
greater
Value
than
that
Part
of
the
to
;
Writ,
having
Abjuration,
and
had defired
his Excellency Governor Lyttleton,
Dobbs,
of
North
Carolina
ordered to
fame in
Lewis Burwell,
ble
of
procuring
a
Livelihood
for
and read.
fame under their
faid Petition
alledged, and
and
afterwards
dehvered
in
at
the
;£
lecfted doth not appear.
Refolved, That the faid
Sum of
Augufta
and
ordered
Ordered,
That
Service
Saluvba^.
the
firft
Time,
That in
Company
of
Militia
of
Hanover
Honor the
Governor, were detained in Service three Months longer than by Law
they
were
appoin-
ted;
to their
read.
Ordered,
their
Opinion
thereupon,
to
and after-
ten
Pounds
by
was
examine into
Number of
ance
Half
-penny,
for
fo
much
and
Ordinary
Licenfes,
and
of
from
^onba^.
tbe
I2tb
of
 ftov(Mnber.
33
(Beo.
IL
1759.
MR.
Charles
prefented
for
the
further
Prote(5lion
ordered
to
be
read
;
Lands,
therein
mentioned,
in
John
Spotfwood,
publick
faid
Penman,
for
maintaining
Gait for
Duty,
was
;
to M '
of Burgeffes,
to
by
Petition
mentioned,
amount
the Publick
for the
had
laid
in
that
thereupon,
Place,
and
Militia
from
the
County
of
Prince
William,
Slaves, of
Colony,
was
prefented
up.
Refolved,
That
the
and
Ordered,
Time.
22
the
Duties
Amendments
thereto,
which
he
read
in
read
the Governor,
were
Pay-
the
fame
Council
his Honor the
M Wafhington,
Concurrence.
;
Adl
Adl
for
granting
the
Sum
of
;^io,ooo,
following Refolves, viz.
particular Branches
common
Bufinefs
of
his
Majefty,
affifting
Governor
Lyttleton
againft
the
Cherokee
Indians,
if
they
fhould
be
rafh
Capitol in
went
up
to
the Regiment;
of
from
Major-Generals
tender Mother,
perfevere
before
the
ufual
Time
of
opening
and
and Vigor
Yefterday, I
to
the
General
Affembly
of
the
laft.
Mr
to
him
feveral
Amherft
and
Stanwix,
Governor
Lyttleton
And
the
to
;
to his
to fupport that Charadler
our
Two
Members
Refolved,
That
OOices f)f
Door Keepers
to iffue for
eledling a Burgefs to ferve in this prefent General Affembly for
James
him
referred
to
the
Confideration
to
bring
in
a
Bill
to
Waller,
The
Order
Governor's Speech
into a Committee
ters;
the
prefent enjoy are derived
to
confider
refimied
tmder their
was again twice read,
Years
1767
and
1768,
and
two
Shillings
Year
1768.
remedy
and the
Petitioner having
and
fmce
applied
him-
I
Phyfick,
expedled to have
the
faid
Petition
And
Allegiance
alfo
fubfcribed
the
to
receive
it.
M '
£20,000
in Caro-
line County ;
the
Deferters;
and fubfifting
To-
ing
was
referred,
had
the
fame
was
again
and being returned,
fevered
to
fupport
the
Progrefs
to
him
feveral
Letters
which
and conf
the utmoft Reludlance,
and imder fuch
Life;
they generally
can
£0 as
and glorious
thofe
of
fidy
be judged
fubfcribed
the
Teft,
Houfe and
be
continued,
was
prefented
from
this
Time
and Protedlion of
and
after
fome
Time
fpent
their
in
The Houfe
Charles
Carter
reported
third
Time,
Culpeper,
in
raifmg
he
was
detained
Alfo
a
their
filled
up.
to the Council
fuch
out of
M '
ingroffed, and
Affembly
A<51 for
granting the Sum
Salary
of
£,350
per
Annum.
M '
Pendleton
An ingroffed
Seffion
Affembly,
w
was
him for
Time of his
up the faid Bill to the Covmcil for their Con-
currence.
Upon
Motion
made,
Refolved,
Services
_, ,,
M ^
that
John Thrufton;
being the
Value of
be ingroffed,
paffed
in
February
1759,
For
Sale into the Treafury, for the U£e of the
Publick.
Alfo
paying
the
rectified
fuch
Miftakes
pleafed
to
ful
to
his
Majefty,
and
a
and
of
the
Houfe
of
Burgeffes,
from
the
me to call you
and
fend
immediate
Affiftance
fituated
in
ftrongeft
Manner,
and
own Situation, and
Matter,
provided
the
Colony
fhould
enable
me
to
fend
the
Govemour,
of the
Importance of
the Matter
are threatened.
is
referred
to
M '
°
M''
Richard
Addrefs.
refumed
his Place
be
to
Refolved,
ProviQons.
£15,000,
purfuant
to
the
above-men-
tioned
Refolution.
The
Hoxif
e
and had come to a
Refolution
thereupon,
delivered
in
at
Refolved,
Tax
purfuant to
Attorney,
General
Amherft,
General
when
this
Hotife
in the Coimty of
faid Parifh,
of
Affembly.
Slaves, were prefented to the Hovife and received, and referred
to
that they
the
Sum
of
£15,000
Time,
and
ordered
to
be
read
a
fecond
Time.
forth, That
he advanced
was
at
referred from
certified
to
this,
be
Order,
waited
therein
mentioned,
were
feverally
and referred
to the
and
ordered
to
be
committed
to
a
Committee
of
Houfe, with fome
to
bring
for
preventing
Mutiny and Defertion, and it is referred to M'' Pendleton and
M' Attorney
and
James
Gunn,
were with their
were employed, and*fuffered great Hardfhips,
from
the
23 *
of
June
Confideration of
the next
and
read,
and
thereupon
Refolved,
to
Time.
A
Petition
of
fundry
Freeholders,
Houfe-Keepers,
and
rejedled.
Refolved,
put
that
they
make
according
therein-named,
was
allowed the
Value of a Slave, lately belonging to the Eftate of the faid
Deceafed,
which
was
to
in
fuch
Bills
the Houfe went up accordingly, and the Govemour was pleafed
to
for
your-felves
Rafhnefs:
prorogued,
Gentlemen
of
the
Houfe
of
Burgeffes,
I
Have
called
of
moft
perfidioufly
Inftant
Prifoners
before
Letter
from
the
Hampfhire; One
Hundred Pounds
Money
Claiborne,
Gentleman,
in
Laws, provided
they are conformable to the Rules laid down in his Royal
Inftrudions.
The
thought
juft
from
his
Majefty
to
in the
refufe
Seafon
of
for
fome
obtaining it,
him,
;
us
by
his
Honour,
under
wife and
up
referred to
of Allegiance and
Morning at
before
your
Houfe
the Colonel's Talk lately fent to
the
Headmen
and
and
ordered
to
in
New
Kent
County,
containing
1300
River, in Albemarle, containing
Goochland, being more
up
Rimaways,
therein
ordered
to
Confideration
the
Speech
Day,
by
Command
Committee.
Letters
tmder
their
Confideration,
but
Refolved, That
a Committee,
upon the
Upon
a
Motion
made.
Ordered,
General
Affembly
Taliaferro, who
Houfe; and
the
fame
wait
on
Confideration,
as
follow
the
Pay
of
this
next.
faid i
be
fuant
Page, M'
that
M^
dock
committed, had examined
into the Allegations
for
impowering
Juftices
nefs.
Alfo
a
Petition
of
fundry
Winchester, praying
that an
Alfo
a
Petition
import
large
Quantities
of
by an
Settlers on
the Frontiers
Law paffed,
Gov-
paffmg
Laws
in
this
Colony,
to
which
prefented to the
this
pofes therein mentioned ; and the fame was read the firft
time,
a Bill
Con-
currence.
A
Meffage
from
Houfe,
went
up;
and
Majefty
(whofe
Wifdom,
Juftice
for
thefe
Affurances,
which he
A Petition
of William
of
Affembly
was
inftead of the Salary
late
Proclamation
the
above
and praying
on the
Houfe
in
the
as are mentioned in
a Petition of fundry
That have agreed to the Bill, intituled an
Adt to
And
that
a
Petition
of
fundry
Inhabitants
of
Cumberland
Parifh,
was read, and
and
after
fome
refumed the Chair,
him
for
his
were read, and
to lie on
of
this
the Houfe
recruiting
Colony,
and
to be brought in For paying
the Burgeffes Wages for this prefent Seffion of
Affembly.
Odober, in the Year
his
^
the Bill,
granted,
may be eftablifhed
Maryland.
Alfo
a
received, and
ordered to
allowed
And then
M Lee do carry up the faid Addrefs and Reprefentation
to the Council,
to Order,
Miftakes as
do
carry up the enrolled Bills to the Coimcil for their Infpedlion.
A
Meffage
the
Addrefs
and
and then
Ordered,
fuch
accordingly; and
Govemour
was
pleafed
to
by the
following
Refolves,
viz.
A
Refolve
Copy,
Step
in
f
fed
this
Seffion
for
the
Protedion
of
the
Honourable
Colonel
of
lB)(tcember,
the
repeated
their
in
Houfe.
A
the
Teft
Houfe,
Appendages,
among us,
who has
fame
Body
of
Men
of
Opinion
folid
Majefty, whofe Commiffion
effedual
to
anfwer
on
the
Inhabitants
of
this
Colony,
to
anfwer
thefe
Purpofes.
Gentlemen
of
completed
before
the
Sitting
of
gracious
Soverign,
and
our
Great Britain, and
according
to
Order,
prepared
then delivered
by
the
private
Virtues.
It
fuffered
to
pafs
thofe
Boundaries,
eftablifhed
for
the
Defence
of
ard Corbin,
ftill
remains
the
Bounds
of
could
Lancafter
and
fome
Slaves
faid
Peti-
Pendleton
to
Day,
and
to
examine
in
to ferve in this
Ordered,
to
ters then
depending and
do alfo examine
Opinions
which
Confidera-
tion
and
all
Proceedings, with
their Opinions
thereon, to
Service of this
;
bly.
An
Augufta,
under
the
Command
of
Colonel
John
Day
of
May
1759,
which
contradl
be
puncflually
and retained the
Confideration of
Affembly,
on
the
4'''
Day
of
April,
the
Houfe
addreffed
his
Honour
the
therein,
was
Period
they
had
as
will
totally
incapacitate
them
from
of
Wildemefs)
they
generally
ferved
in,
could
the
Regiment,
fo
by
the
in
of
themfelves
of
Confid-
eration,
was
That
a
Petition
of
Clement
Norman,
praying
to
be
reimburfed
were at,
lying below
illegal,
and
447
and
and read, and
Horfe
and
February
1759
Bene-
fit,
which the Petitioners
reprefent was obtained at the Solicitations of a few only of
thofe Indians, without
;
of
the
faid
Parifh,
allowed by
referred
to
the
Affembly.
the
23**
of
June
until
the
10'^''
praying
the
Confideration
Committee, that all
Affembly.
Ordered,
;
M' Speaker,
The Governour
Honour's Speech.
And the
in
the
County
report the
Houfe.
and
Grievances.
The
Order of the Day beng read, for the Houfe to proceed to the
Confideration
of
the
Govemour
's
Speech,
Refolved,
the
Confideration
of
a
and Letters
in
to
looo
Committee, not
him
to
Oppofi-
tion
to
Affembly for
Branches,
by
Slopes
in
their
Dams,
were
feverally
be referred to the
Committee of Propofitions and
for
Provifions
fumiflied
the
Confideration of
after
feveral
Refolutions
thereon,
which
25 ^
fame.
A
one, was attacked
Forts,
been
in moft of the Engagements that happened fmce he entered into the
Service,
and
when
he
feveral
Publick.
of
the
oppofite
of Meherrin
and Nottoway
Virginia
Regiment,
praying
that
Provifions
may
ought to be referred
on
both
to the South Side,
Ordered,
That
Bills
them
referred,
be allowed the
and
&c
Sirni of
mentioned.
Refolved,
to the
Claims,
to
to by the Houfe,
in£pe(5ting
praying that
of
Fifh,
is
reafonable.
Inhabitants
of
the
Northern
Neck,
praying
that
the
the
Juftices
of
Bedford
Grievances
fame
in
his
Place,
and
then
delivered
the Govemour,
Exprefs.
M '
to
on a Report, and
at the Table,
read, and agreed
Sum
of
£1$
by
the
Publick.
to
make
an
Allow-
Dale
that
a
Ferry
to the great Inconvenience of
having
a
Road
through
a
praying
be
itfelf into
a Committee,
Govemour's Speech
the
faid
Committee
on
Monday
next.
Confideration
of
the
Committee
Cumberland,
James
Tobacco
at
moft
of
the
for
County of
James
Value
to
the
M ' Bland and M'
feveral Refolutions thereon; which
of the
being alfo again read, was difagreed to by the Houfe.
Refolvi'd,
That
rejedled.
M '
Attorney
waited
this
M'' Claiborne
be added
Grievances, pre-
of
Augufta,
the
Service
of
this
Colony.
Alfo
M'
Henry
M ^ Bland,
Order, a
Bill To
continue and
of
Dumfries,
in
and
read.
Grievances
their
Opinions
as
follow:
Refolved,
the
north
Side
of
Orange
County
Town
anew,
in
fettling
other
Lands
of
Albemarle, being
Refolutions
thereon,
where
they
^^
Court Day of
A Bill For further continuing
an
engroffed, and read
in
a
Bill
Landings,
Propofitions
and
Grievances.
Ordered,
be added
the Houfe
be allowed
was killed
Confideration
James
City
the
Stead
the Veftry
in
the
faid
Parifli,
may
be
of
the
great
to the Houfe and read.
Ordered, That the faid Petitions be referred to the Committee
of
Propofitions
and
Grievances
thereof, and
report the
Hanover, Caro-
line and
Seafons above Page's
fame,
read,
of
James
Abercrombie,
Efq;
until the faid
to the faid
Carter, W
be difcharged
them
report
the
fame
to
the
Houfe.
Ordered,
That
and Propofitions
to them
it is the Opinion of this Committee that the Petition
of Stephen
Pankey and
reafon-
able;
and
that each of the faid Infpedlors ought to be allowed
the further
Mofeley
the
John
Dabney
and
Dinwiddie,
praying
to
be
reafonable
Committee that
faid
Services.
The
Time, and
come
to
feveral
and
of
£2$
for
£100
the
A
Petition
of
Abel
in
Commanding
Officer
when
he
carried
Indifpofition,
healthy young
Ware-
houfe,
for
one
which
they
field's,
praying
to
be
allowed
above
Judgments
were
obtained;
were
feverally
prefented
to
Propofitions and
Opinions thereon,
to the
this
Colony,
complaining
pafs
to
fupprefs
them.
50
Alfo
a
his
Place,
and
then
to
to
M'^
Order, a
that
County
receive the
22''
Year
of
the
Reign
bring in
the
Service
be read
for
the
might fubje6t the
Houfe
Alfo
before a
before a
Committee of
the Committee of
Committee of Trade
Bill
For
and
it
A
Petition
of
Carter
Henry
Neck, in Surry; and that it would be greatly to
his Advantage to difpofe of the
faid
Lands,
and
lay
for this Purpofe he
to the
it is referred to
was prefented
a
Com-
mittee,
It
paffed
Bill
For
the
City
of
Wil-
liamfburg,
Time, and ordered
to the Council
in
this
Colony,
be
rejedled.
Refolved,
to
make
an
Allowance
in
the
the County of Nan-
Jeremiah
Godwin
the
to the
Opinions
Propofitions and Griev-
County
of
Frederick,
the faid County
of
the
faid
Petition
; and
Mj
Refolutions
thereon
faid
to
the
Northward
and
into
one
Parifh ;
and
fouthem
Head thereof
County;
River, be
eredled into
and
Parifh
be
eredled
into
one
much
of
the
may
be
reduced,
is
reafonable;
was
Time, and the Blanks
Ordered, That
a
Number
of
Hor-
fes
faid Parifh, and
Ferry
Brooke,
in
King
and
Queen,
over
Mattapony,
at
River, in the faid County,
to the
is reafonable.
to
receive a
Refolutions.
Warehoviles, fetting forth that by
Means
of
confirming the
and in their
will
paft
largely
increafed
Ordered,
to the Committee of Trade.
A
Bill
For recruiting and further continuing the Regiment in the Service of this
Colony, was read
whole Houfe.
a
Committee
on
the
and agreed to.
and read a
the faid Sum
Merchants,
Traders,
and
others,
of his Pay
in his
the Inhabitants of
they
have
been
the
Confideration
into the
Barrett's
Ferry
Landing,
on
New
Kent,
Town, in
Sum
of
John
Palmer,
to
be
Fairfax
Militia,
and
;
the
Publick
for
Damage
the Seat of Government from
the
City
of
Williamfbtirg,
to
a
Place
more
Colony, be read a
Ad,
entitled.
up.
Refolved,
to
Order,
a
Bill
For
eftablifhing
a
Town
;
of the
Halifax, to
and
to
ordered
to
On a
of Hampfhire, praying that an
A<51
may pafs
Right
read
a
fecond
Time.
On
a
the
praying
that
diftin(5t
that
pay a
proportionable Part
of
Lunenburg, praying that the faid Parifh may be divided into two diftinft
Parifhes, and that
Surry
and
James
City
Counties,
praying
referred
to
the
Confideration
of
the
next
Albemarle,
on
Rockfifh
Inhabitants of the
and
entitled,
againft Invafions
and Infurre(5lions
faid
M''
A
Petition
ii*''
Inftant,
thereof,
and
report
the
fame,
that the Committee had
where they
read, and agreed to by the Houfe with fome Amendments,
and are as follow:
able
of the Com-
;
that he ftaid a Week the firft Time, and near a
week
the
Refolved, That the
Accounts.
Ordered,
That
to
the
of
Affembly
and praying
that an
A6t may
pafs to
Furs, into
one Ad;
deliver
to
your
Houfe
three
Letters
juft
come
to
his
Hands
from
Lieutenant-Colonel
Stephen,
Major
Indians
he
fhall
think
proper.
A
Petition
of
Claims
their
of the
obliged
to
Profpedt of
whoever fhall lofe
the
Quef
and
of
Richmond,
in
Bill, which
read,
and
Amendments.
Trade.
On
a
Motion
made.
the Committee
enable the Freeholders
able
and
difcreet
Perfons
to
a
Committee
on
the
Bill
For
further continuing the feveral A<5ts of Affembly of this
Colony for
Refolved,
to
Order,
a
for
reducing
the
feveral
Ads
Houfe.
referred for
thereof by the
an
M''
Attorney
other Lands
Allegations
thereof,
a third
to the
the
Council
for
their
Concurrence.
M'
Claiborne,
from
the
Time.
A
for their Trouble
Trouble
and
Expenfe
in
fettling
and
paying
to the Committee
other Purpofes
therein mentioned.
Majefty's
diredled
him
to
a Committee on
Table.
apparent lately married)
to
difpofe
prefented
to
brought in purfuant
to the Prayer
That the faid
Part
of
their
Parifh
may
David's,
Proceedings
faid Parifh,
be referred
Allegations thereof
refpe<3;-
with the faid
he was
for the Reception
at great
the
Officer.
Alfo
a
Petition
of
Jofeph
Rentfro,
James
Roberts,
his
Honour
the
Govemour
Place
to
Place,
and
hiring
Storehoufes
Houfe therein.
fettling
done
by
the
prefented to the
the Committee
and Grievances be difcharged from
proceeding
any
to them referred relative to the A(5l
of
Affembly
Cuftoms,
on
the
Clerkfhip
of
of
;^50
per
Annum,
fetting forth
that fhe loft all fhe had when carried
into Captivity, and is not
able
the Affiftance of
Ordered,
That
an Addrefs be made to his Honour the Govemour to defire that
he
mentioned in the
feveral
Refolutions
thereon,
of his who
Expedition, four
March
to
the
Place
other eight were received
with the
or
Stone
make Openings or Stops therein for the Paffage of Fifh.
Alfo
a
Bill
For
fecond
Time.
Morning
at
Nine
o'Clock.
filled
up.
Refolved,
That
the
of
of the Trade of this Colony,
was read a
in
the Bill with
read
a
Nathanial
Talley,
an
infpedlor
at
Crutchfield'
s
Ware-
of
the
Parifli
into a Committee on
him to move
Committee
thereof
againft
the
Cherokees,
four
of
which
were
taken
fick,
and
Caroline,
praying
King Wil-
the
firft
Time,
ordered
to
M'
Bradley,
then delivered
in at
the
faid
next Seffion
of Affembly.
the
Parifh
faid Parifh,
and praying
Inhabitants of the faid Parifh, in Oppo-
lition
thereto,
is
reafonable.
Time.
Refolved,
That
the
Bill
do
pafs.
Ordered,
through
the
faid
Committee on
lie on the
to
delivered in
joined the Forces and ferved on
the
Andrew Lewis, the Commanding Officer,
appointed
to
and fubfifting
him
as
aforefaid.
Refolved,
Arms,
Ammunition
;
of the
County of
received by
and ordered
for
Leave
to
fit
again.
Refolved,
a
Speaker refiuned
;
the Table,
Ordered,
read
a
The
the
Seat
of
Government
their further
to
move
firft Time,
of
committed,
third Time.
in
certain
Bill
Amendments
Place,
and
written
Refolved,
to
defire
that
he
will
his
fit,
and
that
M '
Attorney
cutors
of
the
Will
of
John
Spotfwood,
Efq
; deceafed,
Legacies
due
and the fame was read the firft Time, and ordered
to
A
Bill
the
Town
of
Leeds,
And then the
for
on
and M'
Glebe,
Parifli
of
Cumberland
up the faid
the Committee
appointed to
a
agreed
of
£^22,1.
6.
6,
for the
7.
14.
£2500,
to the
to
Concurrence.
On
a
out
the management
of the
a Committee
on the
Concurrence.
Time,
and
the
Blanks
therein
currence.
An
for
reducing
into one
and the
Houfe, according
of
fecond Time.
The Order
of the
of Government to
a Place more
the Table, where they
were again twice read,
a third
Eyre, M' Walker,
M' Ball, M'
Reade, M ' Upfhaw
 'Clock.
>^tbm5ba^.
\\)Z
Stb
of
:Af
rll,
I
was
committed,
had
examined
true,
And the
the Table.
mentioned,
was
committed,
had
for
the
Paffage
of
Fifh,
Council for their
That they have
agreed to the
men, alfo
Act
for
clearing
and
Ordered,
That
M''
Wafhington
do
the faid Bill.
Ordered,
faid Book
currence.
A
Meffage
from
the
Indians
the Bill, entitled. An
A<51
do go up with a Meffage to the Council, and
inform
the
agreed
to.
fecond Time; and.
thereto.
Ordered,
That
engroffed, and read
of
Lunenburg,
Amherft's
fpecial
Requeft
of a
immediately.
;
the
faid
Confideration, and had come to a Refolution
thereon,
which
he
read
in
his
Place,
and
then
Houfe, as
Affembly,
Colony, we
Concur-
rence.
M''
Attorney
that
our by the
raifing
a
Burgeffes
and
that
they
following
and Furs into
of
of
Norfolk,
Money
towards
defire,
this
Affembly,
which
we could
Enfigns
I
am
forry
to
find
WGunn^°
iolovi
troops
2
Sir
John
St. Clair was a lieutenant-colonel in the Britifh army. He came
to America
Fort
Duquesne,
of Weftover. The Virginia
commanded
by
George
becomes
Paid
los.
at prefent.
with the
it to
;
paid
here,
but
they
are
firft
up
after
their
thereto.
I
am
extremely
Arrival
of
has
ing
every
part,
Particular.
In
the
firft
place
it
was
agreed
to
examine
and
have
been
complied
w'*
and Examination
moft religioufly
obferved in
all a
Matters to your
and the Regiments
W '
Byrd
iment.
DRAPER
MSS.
4
ZZ
52.
Prefence
as
witnefs
often
between
Fort
Cumberland &
Carlifle,
Yet
Tommy
Beemer
wou'd
did I have
Certificate
hoping
you
will
in
1756
which
if
already
determined
upon,
feems
to
to
to
well
know
to
comply
with
cannot
add
provifion by the
Officer is
of Humphries
lince I
to
very
meets,
and
the
more
truft them w'^ fhall
there is
Events will take place. By the End
of this
Month or
to
to ftay with
me. And
tunity has
offer'd which
Colonel
Wafhington
you a better
I
can
Obtain
it
is
fome
of
His
Majefty's
time
fince
reached
By the other
will, altho'
more
on the
Savages
than
my higheft
perform and complete
beyond
the
firft
of
trufted
hand.
It
gives
the
greateft
to
me
will
of
you,
to
the
of
which
you
will
Ukewife
opinion
about
making
be glad
Your moft
Obedient Humble
march
their Retreat
Colo
&
without
delay.
the
you intend
from
you,
'tis
impoffible
ever
to
know
at
too
great
a
Diftance
the
Favour
but that I
when the
on
any Troops
of Col Grant,
that the two Annies
will
oblige
one
or
it
such a March,
you to fpare
think
1
500
of
the
need not paint
to you the
Grant,
& have ftill a Right to do it from the Commiffions
we are
done it hitherto.
Sir what
Letter. I
am with
Regiment and
Comm'' in
fhall
Orders from
open a conftant and regular
Correfpondence
concerns or relates
Fran. Fauquier
Inftruclions to
that
I
flattered
Gentlemen
of
the
Colony
given Orders for
fo
fenfible
colonel
upon
Fry's
death,
ferving
Letter of the
Province
muft
orders,
precautions
boldly
retreating
from
Indians,
be
You
ever
fo
Carefull,
Nova
to
attack
Indians
to
Sir,
Your
I inform
Person
to
furnish
Money
Sir
you
Farmers
to
deliver
a
Large
find
I
fhall
the Reg' on
executing
your
Orders,
Fleet
Militia
you
Serj'*
Corporals
&(5l.
15'''
June,
to
call
at
Warrick
Army
on
great Difficulty's, the
meets in
ordered
as
plainly,
fh'' be laid out in this Colony and not out
of it. In
Fund was able
from me thei'e is
you
left
Philadelphia
to
come
to
Regiment,
and
your
Honor
Philadelphia
the
be ftopd
not confider
that
I
Amherft
of peace
are to
Governors,
from him,
about the fettling peace
fhall
at
Charles
Town,
in
due
Form
to
have
any
hand
in
the
entirely
to
Governor
fay
than that their
fuppofed they fhould
Defign of
am
w'*
great
Letter of the
Virginia Regiment.
Acquainting
You;
And
foon
after
Mine,
they
Force
Monckton, for Supplying You
punct-
Servant.
Jeff.
Amherst.
Colonel
Byrd.
Byrd.]
S-
I
did
Day by Gov. Fau-
has
Provifion
what they
had a force Sufficient. I
will
not
enabled to
anfwer your
13*''
of
of
did not
till
the
14*
of
June,
out
of
£uch Diftance before it was render'd too late for me
to
execute
your
Orders
in
Cooperating
me from Fort
my
Deftination.
to
Cherokee
Country.
The
is
only
Provifion.
We
are
ftill
200
the
Road
to
open
from Col Grant's Numbers makes the Tafk ftill more Difficult
for
upper Towns,
June,
had
Chaftifed
the
Cherokees,
'till
thofe
Ends
GOVR.
FAUQUIER.
Skin
and
Furr
have
been
that
Province.
The
commodious.
communication.
A. S.
COMM :
OF
TRADE.
:
choofe
to
communicate
to
your
words
of
the
fureft
way
to
to me
to be
-line
of
Penfylvania
Penfylvanians
adl,
as
if
it
I am
as yet
this fhould be
fettled by Commiflioners
which fall into the Ohio,
and fo into the
are generally
called by the general name of Lands on the waters of
the
Miffiffipi;
but
to
fome
points
vj ^
feem
to
renew
the
in their power to
on the
that it
all
It
will
require
a
Conftitution
prevailed
protedt thefe out fettlers
would be ineffedlual
fubjedl,
make
a
militia
firft
arrival,
without
fuccefs.
is thought
whom
we
confider-
matters
relative
to
tunity
I
can
find.
fend them to
W btirgh May
du
Qiiefnc,
eaft
fide
of
that
River,
Colony not being fettled,
this
Colony
has
Plantations in
tleton before
of Fort
by,
and
with
the
day of more importance
your
LordPP'
advice
in
my
letter
to
your
R'
of twenty,
 
(
on
meafures,
diately
raifing
frefh
raw
Men
at
a
Repeal of
which I
fliall proclaim
mer
Inftinidlion were delivered
thought
that
the
orders and Inftrudlions, before
per-
both open,
dirty, and
worn out
him
if
thev
The
marks of
back. But
and obedience
courfe
do,
if
it
M''
Camm,
he
and
Friends
papers to
by
the
General
Wall
packet,
which
was
taken
and
ranfom'd,
overboard.
I
Fort Prince
or by
ufed
until
they
recover,
Briftoll, which is
the
13*
June
which
I
reafon
that
in
of when
arrived,
Adl,
circumftances,
Adl, in exprefs terms
and
as
I
duplicates of
twenty
to
ten
per
cent,
to
;
was
part
know
not,
but
Your
LordPP'
may
ab'
the
Piftole
Fee,
the
Burgeffes
home an
AgentJ on
pui-pofe at
never obtain
me and
the Coun-
immediately
under
our
Colony.
Lands on the
;
Gov Hamilton
fome
of
granted
many on
of
the
wifh of that fort
Lord in my letter
W
down to
at the Fort by
the time Capt° Dumere
provifions we defigned for our
Friends
had
fallen
I
muft
at
our Men,
as far as I can
learn,
on
be
impoffible
do all in their
W
'burgh
Dec'
6,
1760.
My
Lords,
Under
in
the
Ruffell,
Crawfurd,
by
the
French.
New River, or
returning,
miles
are
on waters running into
clandeftime Trade
to
grant
Trade carried on
fion.
The
Adts,
accounts,
and
ready
Wc have
had the
Dawfow,
cil. According