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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... All 10 Virginia seats to the United States House of ... 1788 and 1789; 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional ...
History of the United States (1789–1849) ... Thomas Nelson Jr., signatory of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia in 1781 (born 1738)
The first election for Virginia's 5th congressional district took place on February 2, 1789, for a two-year term to commence on March 4 of that year. In a race that turned on the candidates' positions on the need for amendments (the Bill of Rights) to the recently ratified U.S. Constitution, James Madison defeated James Monroe for a place in the House of Representatives of the First Congress.
The 1788–89 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on January 7, 1789, as part of the 1788–1789 United States presidential election to elect the first President. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President. However, one elector did not vote and another ...
The 1789 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on 30 November 1789 in order to elect the Governor of Virginia. Incumbent Governor of Virginia Beverley Randolph won re-election in the Virginia General Assembly as he ran unopposed.
David Lynn Holmes, Jr., "William Meade and the Church of Virginia 1789–1829" (PhD. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1971) Larry E. Tise, Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701–1840(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987) John Frank Waukechon, The forgotten evangelicals: Virginia Episcopalians 1790–1876 (PhD.
Engraving by Henry Bryan Hall. Nelson was the grandson of Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson, an immigrant from Cumberland, England, who was an early pioneer at Yorktown.Nelson Jr. was born in 1738 in Yorktown; his parents were Elizabeth Carter Burwell (daughter of Robert "King" Carter and widow of Nathaniel Burwell) and William Nelson, who was a leader of the colony and briefly served as governor.