Resolutions and Association of the Virginia Convention of 1774, [1–6 August 1774] Point #4 (4thly), the cause of this great issue at Boston was at the hands of a non-government entity (the East India Trading Company) which was tightly connected to England, but was clearly using legal means to exert its power over the colonies …
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Flow, Abolitionists, Humanitarians
A few thoughts on a quiet Sunday Evening. On “Flow” I don’t know that I’ve detailed this principle anywhere in any great detail, but the principle of “Flow” has been crystalizing in my mind as I have studied and learned about water, and how it works in the world around us and within a contained …
Preparations for the Continental Congress, July 1774
Two documents are featured below, both written in the summer of 1774: Draft of a Declaration of Rights Prepared for the Virginia Convention of August 1774, [ca. 26 July 1774] This declaration of rights for the colony of Virginia is aggressive and more assertive that former declarations. This is attributed without disputation to TJ as …
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Notes from Colonial Period, Later 1773 – Mid 1774
Resolution of the House of Burgesses Designating a Day of Fasting and Prayer, 24 May 1774 This was a document drafted by several younger, (and no doubt) more zealous members of the House of Burgesses, but was not considered to be the most outspoken of responses to the siege on Boston by the British Government. …
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Thomas Jefferson, Colonial Period, Celtic Poetry and Surveyor – 1773
From Thomas Jefferson to Charles McPherson, 25 February 1773 TJ is interested in a set of poems translated from what appears to be a Celtic language. He takes so much interest in the source language that he petitions Charles McPherson to send him a catalogue of books for study on the language so that he …
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Thomas Jefferson, Colonial Period – 1772
To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 8 July 1772 Reference to an economic collapse not unlike the housing lending crisis that happened in 2008-2011, where prior to this bills of credit were being issued recklessly. How history does repeat itself, and much more frequently than we care to admit. At least once in a generation, …
Notes on Thomas Jefferson Docs – River Navigation, Easements,
Project for Making the Rivanna River Navigable, 1771 A curious document outlining a project proposal to widen a river. (Thomas Jefferson listed this project above the Declaration of Independence in a list of accomplishments in 1800.) What I find interesting is that he observed that with just the removal loose stone from the river bed …
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Notes on Thomas Jefferson Docs – Dec 1771 & 1772
Marriage license brought me to consider family life of the time period. Notable that Thomas Jefferson was the beneficiary of large inheritance from his father who died when Thomas was only 14 years old. TJ only married once (Martha Wayles Skelton). Reviewing TJ’s Memorandum Books from 1772 (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-01-02-0006) At first this appears to be only …
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Notes on Documents from 1770
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0023 This first letter of the year 1770 starts with Jefferson recounting the loss of his books and personal writings and records through a house fire. What such a loss as this must do to the soul of a scholar, to know that the only thing left behind is what is recorded within. Of papers …
Notes on Documents from May 1766 to End of 1769
“Dreading the Evils which threaten the Ruin of ourselves and our Posterity, by reducing us from a free and happy People to a wretched and miserable State of Slavery;”