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The House of Burgesses (/ ... From 1642 to 1776, the House of Burgesses was an important feature of Virginian politics, ...
The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1705 regulating the interactions between slaves and citizens of the crown colony of Virginia.
This is a list of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1619 to 1775 from the references listed at the end of the article. The members of the first assembly in 1619, the members of the last assembly in 1775 and the Speakers of the House are designated by footnotes.
House of Burgesses chamber inside the Capitol building at Colonial Williamsburg. The lower house of a colonial legislature was a representative assembly. These assemblies were called by different names. Virginia had a House of Burgesses, Massachusetts had a House of Deputies, and South Carolina had a Commons House of Assembly.
William Clayton (c. 1717 – December 14, 1797) was Virginia planter, officer, patriot and politician who served as the clerk of New Kent County, Virginia for decades, and also represented the county in the House of Burgesses (1766–1771), in the final Virginia Revolutionary Convention and first session of the Virginia House of Delegates, and in the 1788 Virginia convention to ratify the ...
Philip Ludwell Jr. (c.1672 – c.1727) was a Virginia planter and politician who served several terms in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and became an important figure in the colony's new capital at Williamsburg as well as with the newly established College of William & Mary.
The following is the original text of the Virginia Resolves as adopted by the House of Burgesses on May 29, 1765: [3]. Resolved, that the first adventurers and settlers of His Majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia brought with them and transmitted to their posterity, and all other His Majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this His Majesty's said colony, all the liberties, privileges ...
Either Rice Hooe II (1640–1694) or (more likely) Rice Hooe III (b. in Charles City County circa 1660, d. after 1715) served in the House of Burgesses representing then vast Stafford County, together with George Mason I in 1699 (Rev. John Waugh having been ruled ineligible to serve as a burgess because of his clerical status). While not ...