1st Virginia General Assembly

Virginia legislative term for 1776

1st Virginia General Assembly

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1845 engraving based on drawings of the second capitol at Williamsburg

Overview
Legislative body| Virginia General Assembly
Meeting place| Virginia Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
Term| October 7, 1776 – December 21, 1776
Senate
Members| 24
Speaker| Archibald Cary
House of Delegates
Members| 128
Speaker| Edmund Pendleton
Sessions
| 1st| October 7, 1776 – December 21, 1776

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The First Virginia General Assembly convened from October 7, 1776, to December 21, 1776, in regular session.[1] This session took place while the Second Continental Congress was still in session.

## Major events[edit]

* December 25, 1776: George Washington lead about 2,400 soldiers across the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on the British Army at Trenton, New Jersey.
* December 26, 1776: George Washington and his army surprised about 1,500 Hessian auxiliaries at the Battle of Trenton and took over 900 prisoners.

## Sessions[edit]

* 1st Regular session: October 7, 1776 - December 21, 1776

## Leaders[edit]

### Senate leadership[edit]

* Speaker of the Senate: Archibald Cary

### Assembly leadership[edit]

* Speaker of the Assembly: Edmund Pendleton

## Members[edit]

### Members of the Senate[edit]

Members of the Senate of Virginia for the First Virginia General Assembly:[1]

Class  | Counties  | Senator  | Notes

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1  | Amelia, Chesterfield, & Cumberland  | Archibald Cary
Brunswick, Lunenburg, & Mecklenburg  | John Jones
Charles City, James City, & New Kent  | John Armistead
Henrico, Goochland, & Louisa  | Thomas Mann
Augusta & Dunmore  | Sampson Mathews
Lancaster, Richmond, & Northumberland  | Richard Mitchell | Election was ruled invalid October 25, 1776.
2  | Isle of Wight, Surry, & Prince George  | Theodorick Bland
Charlotte, Halifax, & Prince Edward  | Paul Carrington
Gloucester & Middlesex  | Warner Lewis
Spotsylvania, Orange, & Culpeper  | Edward Stevens
Loudoun & Fauquier  | William Ellzey
Frederick, Berkeley, & Hampshire  | Robert Rutherford
3  | Dinwiddie, Southampton, & Sussex  | David Mason
Botetourt & Fincastle  | William Christian
Hanover & Caroline  | Thomas Lomax
Essex, King William, & King and Queen | George Brook
Prince William & Fairfax  | Henry Lee
West Augusta  | David Rogers
4  | Accomac & Northampton  | Isaac Smith
Princess Anne, Norfolk, & Nansemond  | James Holt
Buckingham, Albemarle, & Amherst  | William Cabell
Bedford & Pittsylvania  | Edmund Winston | Election was ruled invalid October 9, 1776.
Elizabeth City, Warwick, & York  | David Jameson | Resigned to join the Governor's privy council December 1776.
Westmoreland, Stafford, & King George  | Thomas Ludwell Lee

### Members of the House of Delegates[edit]

Members of the Virginia House of Delegates for the First Virginia General Assembly:[1]

County  | Delegate  | Notes

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Accomac | Southey Simpson
James Henry
Albemarle | Charles Lewis
Thomas Jefferson
Amelia | John Tabb
John Winn
Amherst | Joseph Cabell
Gabriel Penn
Augusta | Thomas Lewis
Samuel McDowell
Bedford | John Talbot
Charles Lynch
Berkeley | Philip Pendleton
Thomas Hite
Botetourt | John Bowyer
Patrick Lockhart
Brunswick | Frederick Maclin
Henry Tazewell
Buckingham | Charles Patteson
John Cabell
Caroline | Edmund Pendleton
James Taylor
Charles City | William Acrill
Samuel Harwood
Benjamin Harrison | Departed during October, elected delegate to Congress.
Charlotte | Thomas Read
Chesterfield | John Bolling
Benjamin Watkins
Culpeper | Birkett Davenport
French Strother
Cumberland | John Mayo
William Fleming
Dinwiddie | John Banister
Bolling Starke
Dunmore | Abraham Bird
John Tipton
Elizabeth City | Wilson Miles Cary
Henry King
Essex | Meriwether Smith
James Edmondson
Fairfax | John West Jr.
George Mason
Fauquier | Martin Pickett
James Scott
Fincastle | Arthur Campbell
William Russell
Frederick | James Wood
Isaac Zane
Gloucester | Lewis Burwell
Mann Page
Goochland | John Woodson
Tarlton Fleming
Halifax | Nathaniel Terry
Micajah Watkins
Hampshire | James Mercer
Abraham Hite
Hanover | Garland Anderson
John Syme
Henrico | Nathaniel Wilkinson
Richard Adams
Isle of Wight | John S. Wills
Charles Fulgham
James City | Robert C. Nicholas
William Norvell
King and Queen | Thomas Coleman
William Lyne
King George | Joseph Jones
William Fitzhugh
King William | Carter Braxton
Richard Squire Taylor
Lancaster | Jesse Ball
James Gordon
Loudoun | Francis Peyton
Josiah Clapham
Louisa | George Meriwether
Thomas Johnson
Lunenburg | David Garland
Lodowick Farmer
Mecklenburg | Joseph Speed
Bennett Goode
Middlesex | Edmund Berkeley
James Montague
Nansemond | Willis Riddick
William Cowper
New Kent | William Clayton
Armistead Russell
Norfolk | Matthew Godfrey
John Wilson
Northampton | Nathaniel L. Savage
George Savage
Northumberland | Rodham Kenner
John Cralle
Orange | James Madison
William Moore
Pittsylvania | Benjamin Lankford
Robert Williams
Prince Edward | William Watts
William Booker
Prince George | Richard Bland | Died October 26, 1776.
Peter Poythress | Resigned due to illness October 17, 1776.
Edmund Ruffin
Prince William | Cuthbert Bullitt
Jesse Ewell
Princess Anne | William Robinson
John Thoroughgood
Richmond | Hudson Muse
Charles M. Carty
Southampton | Edwin Gray
Henry Taylor
Spotsylvania | Mann Page
George Thornton
Stafford | Charles Carter
William Brent
Surry | Allen Cocke
Nicholas Faulcon
Sussex | Henry Gee
Gray Judkins
Warwick | William Harwood
Richard Cary
West Augusta  | John Harvie
Charles Simms
Westmoreland | Richard Henry Lee
John A. Washington
York | Corbin Griffin
William Digges
Williamsburg | Joseph Prentis
Norfolk Borough  | William Roscow
Wilson Curle

## Employees[edit]

* Senate Clerk: John Pendleton Jr.
* House Clerk: John Tazewell

## See also[edit]

* List of Virginia state legislatures

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Swem, Earl G.; Williams, John W., eds. (1918). A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776-1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions. Commonwealth of Virginia. pp. 1–3. Retrieved December 29, 2021.

## External links[edit]

* Virginia General Assembly website

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