Plantation owner, farmer, state legislator and Revolutionary War hero George Washington, at age 57, wanted nothing more than ...

According to U.S. News & World Report, in 1758 George Washington was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses after he plied voters with beer, whiskey, rum punch, and wine. He did so after a ...

The town of Dumfries is Virginia's oldest continuously chartered town and is celebrating its 275th anniversary with a series ...

a member of the House of Burgesses, brother-in-law of George Washington and co-founder of the Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory established during the American Revolution. The singular notable ...

10, 1721. His father was Sir John Randolph, a lawyer, a Speaker of the House of Burgesses (the colony’s legislature), and a wealthy man, who was the only native Virginian to be knighted by the King of ...

Lee's prominent role in the events that shaped Virginia and the nation in the mid- to late 17th century, not least his 1758 election to the Virginia House of Burgesses—an assembly of elected ...

But by the end of May, in response to these acts that the colonists deem “Intolerable,” the House of Burgesses in Virginia ...

He bears the title of colonel in that county’s militia. He’s served in the House of Burgesses, representing first his native Hanover County and then getting himself elected again in Williamsburg once ...

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