Richard Bland, Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Virginia |
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... helped draft a humble add- ress to the governor to which he answered that he would do " every Thing in my Power " to have the Crown redress the grievances of the 95 Assembly . Two days later the Burgesses voted a gift of 500 to ...
... helped draft a humble add- ress to the governor to which he answered that he would do " every Thing in my Power " to have the Crown redress the grievances of the 95 Assembly . Two days later the Burgesses voted a gift of 500 to ...
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... helped draw up the Burgesses ' answer to the governor's request and he presented it on May 2 , 1755. This address ... helping to arm these troops from his home county . ( JHB , 1752-1758 , p . 463 ) Bland was interested in the campaign ...
... helped draw up the Burgesses ' answer to the governor's request and he presented it on May 2 , 1755. This address ... helping to arm these troops from his home county . ( JHB , 1752-1758 , p . 463 ) Bland was interested in the campaign ...
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... helped draft this body of resolves which requested of the Crown that Governor Dinwiddie's demand for a Pistole Fee on land patents in the colony be withdrawn because it was oppressive and a deterrent to frontier expansion . The Humble ...
... helped draft this body of resolves which requested of the Crown that Governor Dinwiddie's demand for a Pistole Fee on land patents in the colony be withdrawn because it was oppressive and a deterrent to frontier expansion . The Humble ...
Contents
An Apprentice Burgess | 31 |
The Pistole Fee Dispute ཎྜ | 95 |
The Two Penny Controversy | 123 |
Copyright | |
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