Revolutionary Virginia, the Road to Independence: The Committees and the Second Convention, 1773-75: A Documentary RecordWilliam James Van Schreeven, Robert L. Scribner |
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The governor's consultants believed that it would , since Short had sworn that fifteen or more men , some of them “ people of fortune and credit in the County ” were engaged in the felonies . And even notice of Short's absence from that ...
The governor's consultants believed that it would , since Short had sworn that fifteen or more men , some of them “ people of fortune and credit in the County ” were engaged in the felonies . And even notice of Short's absence from that ...
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But though John of Somersworth was a grandson of a lieutenant governor , a nephew of the first full - fledged royal governor of the province , and a cousin of the second , and the recipient of magisterial favors , his convictions were ...
But though John of Somersworth was a grandson of a lieutenant governor , a nephew of the first full - fledged royal governor of the province , and a cousin of the second , and the recipient of magisterial favors , his convictions were ...
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In the former colony it meant the governor ( or in his absence , the lieutenant governor or the president of the Council ) and the Council sitting as the colonial Supreme Court ; in the latter it was the legislature , “ the Governor ...
In the former colony it meant the governor ( or in his absence , the lieutenant governor or the president of the Council ) and the Council sitting as the colonial Supreme Court ; in the latter it was the legislature , “ the Governor ...
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| Title | Revolutionary Virginia, the Road to Independence: The Committees and the Second Convention, 1773-75: A Documentary Record Volume 2 of Revolutionary Virginia: The Road to Independence, William James Van Schreeven |
| Editors | William James Van Schreeven, Robert L. Scribner |
| Compiled by | William James Van Schreeven, Robert L. Scribner |
| Contributor | Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2007 |
| ISBN | 0813906016, 9780813906010 |
| Length | 418 pages |
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