1774
The People of Virginia Lose Representation
A Day of Fasting and Prayer in Support of the Closing of the Port of Boston, May 24, 1774.
An ASSOCIATION, signed by 89 members of the late HOUSE of BURGESSES.- The 27th day of May, 1774.
"WE his Majesty's most dutiful
and loyal subjects, the late representatives of the good people of this
country, having been deprived by the sudden interposition of the executive
part of this government from giving our countrymen the advice we wished
to convey to them in a legislative capacity, find ourselves under the hard
necessity of adopting this, the only method we have left, of pointing out
to our countrymen such measures as in our opinion are best fitted to secure
our dearest rights and liberty from destruction, by the heavy hand of power
now lifted against North America:.With much grief we find that our dutiful
applications to Great Britain for security of our just, ancient, and constitutional
rights, have been not only disregarded, but that a determined system is
formed and pressed for reducing the inhabitants of British America to slavery,
by subjecting them to the payment of taxes, imposed without the consent
of the people or their representatives; and that in pursuit of this system,
we find an act of the British parliament, lately passed, for stopping the
harbour and commerce of the town of Boston, in our sister colony of Massachusetts
Bay, until the people there submit to the payment of such unconstitutional
taxes, and which act most violently and arbitrarily deprives them of their
property, in wharfs erected by private persons, at their own great and
proper expence, which act is, in our opinion, a most dangerous attempt
to destroy the constitutional liberty and rights of all North America..."
"A New Song. To the tune of Hearts Of Oak
COME, come, my brave boys, from my song
you shall hear,
That we'll crown seventy four a most glorious
year;
We'll convince Bute and Mansfield, and
North, though they rave,
Britons still, like themselves, spurn
the chains of a slave.
CHORUS:
Hearts of oak were our sires,
Hearts of oak are their sons,
Like them we are ready, as firm and as
steady,
To fight for our freedom with swords and
with guns...."
Source: Virginia Gazette (Pinkney), October 6, 1774- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Prince William County Resolves June 6, 1774, Published in Virginia Gazette June 16, 1774.
Fairfax County Resolves , July 18, 1774.
The Association of the Virginia Convention; August 1-6, 1774.
The Women of Virginia Urge the Ladies of Pennsylvania to Help the Cause of Liberty (August 1774). / Translated Into Modern English
Armed Resistance and Disarmament
Fairfax County Independent Company of Volunteers Organized by George Mason, September 21, 1774.
Ban on the Exportation of Gunpowder, Arms, Ammunition, & Saltpetre to America , October 13, 1774.
Fairfax County Independent Company of Volunteers in the Virginia Gazette, October 27, 1774.
Marching Towards Independence...