Resolution to Summon a Convention in Williamsburg (May 30, 1774)

Resolution to Summon a Convention in Williamsburg, May 30, 1774, Page 1

30^th May 1774

At a Meeting of 25 — of the late Representatives of this legally assembled by the Moderator, it was agreed that Letters be wrote to all our Sister Colonies, acknowledging the Receipt of the Letters and Resolves from Boston &c informing them, that before the same came to hand, the Virginia Assembly had been unexpectedly dissolved, and most of the members returned to their respective Counties. That it is the Opinion of all the late House of Burgesses who could be convened on the present Occasion, that the Colony of Virginia will concur with the other Colonies in such Measures as shall be judged most effectual for the preservation of the Common Rights and Liberty of British America; that they are of Opinion particularly that an Association against Importations will probably be entered into, as soon as the late Representatives can be collected, and perhaps against Exportations also after a certain Time. But that that this must not be considered as an Engagement on the part of this Colony, which it would be presumption in us to enter into, and that we are sending Dispatches to call together the late Representatives to meet at Williamsburg on the first Day of August next to conclude finally on these important Questions.

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Francis Lightfoot Lee
Tho^s Nelson Jr.
R Rutherford
John Walker
James Wood.
W^m Langhorne
T. Blackburne
Edm^d Berkeley
Jn^o Donelson
P. Carrington
Lewis Burwell – (Gloster)