Internet Reference Sites

Grateful Acknowledgement to the Following Sites:

John Marshall - Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Member of the Culpeper County Minutemen

The Huguenot Society of The Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia.

Interviews of United States Supreme Court Justices on Effective Appellate Writing by Lawprose.org

Latest Virginia Supreme Court Opinions

Latest Virginia Court of Appeals Opinions Published

Office of the Virginia Attorney General

U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (Justia)

U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Historical Various State Case Law on the Right to Bear Arms

Hening's Statutes at Large

Library of Congress Historic On-line Documents 1774-1875

The Constitutional Source Project (ConSource)

Virginia Public Law Libraries

Virginia Maps and County History

Virginia Currency

British Currency

Roman Numeral Year Dates or Conversion Calculator

Important Resources on Colonial Virginia &c.

Thomas Jefferson's Manuscript Collection of the Laws and Court Cases &c. of Early Virginia: 1606 - 1737

Richard Bland, An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (Williamsburg 1766)

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1619-1658/59

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1742-1749

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1758-1761

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1761-1765

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1766-1769

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1770-1772

Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia in Four Parts (1855).

Charles Campbell, History of of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia (1860).

Philip A. Bruce, Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (1907).

Philip A. Bruce, 1 The Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (1910).

Philip A. Bruce, 2 The Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (1910).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Vol 1. (1785), Vol. 2 (1799).

8 Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts from May 16, 1795 to Dec. 31, 1798, Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry of Virginia and the other Colonies From March 12, 1773 to April 7, 1775 also, the Journal of the Committee of Safety of Virginia From February 7, 1776 to July 5, 1776 (Henry W. Flournoy Ed. 1890)

Diary of John Harrower , 1773-1776.

Virginia Frontier Defenses 1719-1795

Common People and Their Material World: Free Men and Women in the Chesapeake, 1700-1830.

The Encyclopedia of Dumfries, Virginia 1772-1774

Lord Dunmore's War - Grayson County's Participation

Land Warrants Issued (4,748) to Virginia Revolutionary War Veterans in Kentucky (Searchable by Name)

Case of the Loyal and Greenbriar Companies, 8 Va. (4 Call) 22, (1783)(Land Grant of Prominent Virginians and the Proclamations of 1763 and other legal titles). See also: Maze v. Hamiltons, 8 Va. (4 Call) 33 (1783), Hamilton v. Maze 8 Va. (4 Call) 196 (1791).

Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740 - 1810

The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of Virginia, 1751-1758, : Virginia Historical Society (1883).

Justice in Colonial Virginia : Oliver Perry Chitwood, 1905.

The Royal Government in Virginia 1624-1775 : Percy Flippin, 1919.

The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865 (1913).

1 The Journal of Negro History, No. 3., 233 (1916) Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia.

1 The Journal of Negro History, No. 2., 110 (1916) The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.

Influencial Foreign Writers and Their Works Important to Colonial Virginia

Discourse Concerning Government, Vol 1 : Algernon Sydney (Sidney) (Edinburgh, 1750).

Second Edition Discourse Concerning Government, Second Edition : (London 1704).

The Essence of Algernon Sidney's Work on Government.

Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke.

A Letter Concerning Toleration, by John Locke.

A Speech Intended to Have Been Spoken on the Bill for Altering the Charters of the Colony of Massachusett's Bay, By Jonathan Shipely, Bishop of St. Asaph (London 1774). Quoted by George Mason in his Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, April 1775.

Post Colonial Virginia Documents and Various Other Important Legal Documents

4 Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts from Jan 1, 1785, to July 2, 1789 (Richmond 1890)

5 Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts from July 2, 1789, to August 11, 1792 (Richmond 1885)

7 Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts from Jan 1, 1794, to May 16, 1795 (Richmond 1888) Militia Act of 1792

Debate on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution of 1787.

Ratification Debates on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Virginia in 1788, 2 Elliot's Debates (1828).

10 Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts from Jan. 1, 1808 to Dec. 31, 1835 (Henry W. Flournoy Ed. 1892) War of 1812

Military Laws of 1820 (Including Militia Laws of Virginia).

The Military Laws of the United States Relating to the Army, Volunteers, Militia and to Bounty Lands and Pensions From the Foundations of the Government to the Year 1863.

Revolutionary War Documentation of the Southern Theater of Operations

Chronology of Revolutionary War Battles/Actions

Joseph Thompson McAllister, Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War (Hot Springs, 1913)