During the regal government, some contest arose on the exaction of an illegal fee by governor Dinwiddie, and doubtless there were others on other occasions not at present recollected. It is supposed that these are not sufficiently interesting to a foreigner to merit a detail. The petition of the council and burgesses of Virginia to the king, their memorials to the lords, and remonstrance to the commons in the year 1764, began the present contest; and these having proved ineffectual to prevent the passage of the stampact, the resolutions of the house of burgesses of 1765 were passed declaring the independence of the people of Virginia of the parliament of Great Britain, in matters of taxation. From that time till the declaration of independence by Congress in 1776, their journals are filled with assertions of the public rights. The pamphets published in this State on the controverted question, were : 1766, An Inquiry into the rights of the British Colonies, by Richard Bland. 1769, The Monitor's Letters, by Dr. Arthur Lee. 1774, A summary View of the rights of British America." 1774, Considerations, &c., by Robert Carter Nicholas. Since the declaration of independence this State has had no controversy with any other, except with that of Pennsylvania, on their common boundary. Some papers on this subject passed between the executive and legislative bodies of the two States, the result of which was a happy accommodation of their rights. To this account of our historians, memorials, and pamphlets, it may not be unuseful to add a chronological catalogue of American state-papers, as far as I have been able to collect their titles. It is far from being either complete or correct. Where the title alone, and not the paper itself, has come under my observation, I cannot answer for the exactness of the date. Sometimes I have not been able to find any date at all, and sometimes have not been satisfied that such a paper exists. An extensive collection of papers of this description has been for some time in a course of preparation by a gentleman† fully equal to the task, † Mr. Hazard. *By the author of these notes. and from whom, therefore, we may hope ere long to receive it. In the meantime accept this as the result of my labors, and as closing the tedious detail which you have so undesignedly drawn upon yourself. Pro Johanne Caboto et filiis suis super terra incognita investi- Billa signata anno 13. Henrici septimi. 3. Hakluyt's voiages 5. 37. Commission de François I. à Jacques Catier pour l'establissement An act against the exaction of money, or any other thing, by Letetrs-patent of Queen Elizabeth to Adrian Gilbert and others, An assignment by Sir Walter Raleigh for continuing the action Lettres de Lieutenant General de l'Acadie et pays circonvoisins pour le Sieur de Monts. L'Escarbot. 417. Letters-patent to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers and others of America. Stith. Apend. No. 1. An ordinance and constitution enlarging the council of the two The second charter to the treasurer and company for Virginia, A third charter to the treasurer and company for Virginia. Stith. A commission to Sir Walter Raleigh. Qu. Commissio specialis concernens le garbling herbæ Nocotianæ. 17. A proclamation for restraint of the disordered trading of tobacco. A grant of New-England to the council of Plymouth. 1496, Mar. 5. 11. H. 7. 1498, Feb. 3. 1540, Oct. 17. 1548, 2. E. 6. 1578, June 11. 20. El. 1583, Feb. 6. 1581, Mar. 25. 26 El. Mar. 7. 31. El. 1603, Nov. 8. 1606, Apr. 10. 4. Jac. 1. 1607, Mar. 9. 4. Jac. 1. 1609, May 23. 7. Jac. 1. 1610, April 10. Jac. 1. 1611. Mar. 12. 9. Jac. 1. 1617. Jac. 1. 1620. Apr. 7. 18. Jac. 1. 1620. June 29. 18. Jac. 1. 1620. Nov. 3. Jac. 1. 1621, July 24. Jac. I. 1621, Sep. 10. 20 Juc. 1. 1622, Nov. 6. 20 Jac. 1. 1623, May 9. 21 Jac. 1. 1623. 1624, July 15. 22. Jac. 1, 1624, Aug. 26. 22 Jac. 1. 1624, Sep. 29. 22 Jac. 1. 1624, Nov. 9. 22 Jac. 1. 16:5, Mar. 2. 22 Jac. 1. 1625, Mar. 4. 1 Car. 1. 1625, Apr. 9. 1 Car. I. 16:25, May 13. 1 Car. I. 16:25, July 12. 1626, Jan. 31. 2 Car. 1. 16:20, Feb. 17. 2 Car. I. 1627. Mar. 19. qu? 2 Cur. 1. 167, Mar. 26. 3 Car. I. 16:7, Mar. 30. 3 Car. 1. 16.7. Aug. 9. 3 Car. I. 16, Mar. 4. 3 Car. I. 1629, Aug. 19. 1630, Jan. 6. 5 Car. 1. 1630, April 30. An ordinance and constitution of the treasurer, council and company in England, for a council of state and general assembly in Virginia. Stith. Ap. 4. A grant of Nova Scotia to Sir William Alexander. 2. Mem. de l'Amerique. 193. A proclamation prohibiting interloping and disorderly trading to New England in America. 17. Rym. 416. De commissione speciali Willelmo Jones militi directa. 17. Rym. 490. A grant to Sir Edmund Ployden, of New Albion. Mentioned in De commissione Henrico vicecomiti Mandevill et aliis. 17. Rym. De commissione speciali concernenti gubernationem in Virginia. 17. Rym. 618. A proclamation concerning tobacco. 17. Rym. 621. De concessione demiss, Edwardo Ditchfield et aliis. 17. Rym. 633. A proclamation for the utter prohibiting the importation and De commissione directa Georgio Yardeley militi et aliis. 18. Proclamatio de herba Nicotianâ. 18. Rym. 19. A proclamation for settlinge the plantation of Virginia. 18. Rym. A grant of the soil, barony, and domains of Nova Scotia to Sir Commissio directa a Johanni Wolstenholme militi et aliis. 18 A proclamation touching tobacco. Rym. 848. A grant of Massachusetts bay by the council of Plymouth to De concessione commissionis specialis proconcilio in Virginia. De proclamatione de signatione de tobacco. 18. Rym. 886. crown. The capitulation of Quebec. Champlain pert. 2. 216. 2. Mem. Am. 489. A proclamation concerning tobacco. 19. Rym. 235. A proclamation forbidding the disorderly trading with the savages in New England in America, especially the furnishing the natives in those and other parts of America by the English with weapons and habiliments of warre. 19. Ry. 210. 3. Rushw. 82. A proclamation prohibiting the selling arms, &c. to the savages A grant of Connecticut by the council of Plymouth to the E. of A confirmation by the crown of the grant of Connecticut [said A conveiance of Connecticut by the E. of Warwick to Lord 1. A special commission to Edward, Earle of Dorsett, and others, for the better plantation of the colony of Virginia. 19. Ry. 301. Litere continentes promissionem regis ad tradenum castrum et habitationem de Kebec in Canada ad regem Francorum. 19. Ry. 303. Traité entre le roy Louis XIII. et Charles roi d'Angleterre pour A grant of Maryland to Cæcilius Calvert, baron of Baltimore in A petition of the planters of Virginia against the grant to lord Order of council upon the dispute between the Virginia plant- A special commission to Thomas Young to search, discover and A proclamation for preventing of the abuses growing by the un- A proclamation restraining the abusive venting of tobacco. 19. A proclamation concerning the landing of tobacco, and also for- 553. A commission to the Archbishop of Canterbury and 11 others, for governing the American colonies. A commission concerning tobacco. M. S. A commission from Lord Say, and Seal, and others, to John Winthrop to be governor of Connecticut. Smith's App. A grant to Duke Hamilton. 1630-31, Nov. 24. 6 Car. 1. 1630, Dec. 5. 6 Car. 1. 1630, Car. 1. 1630, Car. 1. 1631, Mar. 19. 6 Car. 1. 1631, June 27. 7 Car. 1. 1632, June 29. 7 Car. 1. 1632, Mar. 29. 8 Car. 1. 1632, June 20. 8 Car. 1. 1633, July 3, 9 Car. 1. 1633, July 3. 1633, Aug. 13. 9 Car. I. 1633, Sept. 23. 9 Car. 1. 1633, Oct. 13. 1634, May 19. 10 Car. 1. 1634, Car. 1. 1634, June 19. 10 Car. I. 1635, July 18. 11 Car. I. 1635, Car. 1. De commissione speciali Johanni Harvey militi to pro meliori A proclamation concerning tobacco. Title in 3. Rush. 617. A proclamation against disorderly transporting his Majesty's An order of the privy council to stay 8 ships now in the Thames from going to New England. 3. Rush. 409. A warrant of the Lord Admiral to stop unconformable ministers from going beyond the sea. 3. Rush. 410. Order of council upon Claiborne's petition against Lord Baltimore. Votes of representatives of Pennsylvania. vi. An order of the king and council that the attorney general draw up a proclamation to prohibit transportation of passengers to New England without license. 3. Rush. 718. A proclamation to restrain the transporting of passengers and A proclamation concerning tobacco. Title 4. Rush. 1060. De commissione speciali Henrico Ashton armigero ét aliis ad A proclamation concerning retailers of tobacco. 4. Rush. 966. Articles of union and confederacy entered into by Massachu- An act for the advancing and regulating the trade of this commonwealth. Tit. in Amer. libr. 99. 9. Grant of the Northern neck of Virginia to Lord Hopton, Lord Jermyn, Lord Culpepper, Sir John Berkley, Sir William Moreton, Sir Dudley Wyatt, and Thomas Culpepper. |