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 of America. (This sees a significant point of consideration.) Is it in the illustration of corruption with non-government institutions that we see here why we must keep power in check.
Instructions by the Virginia Convention to Their Delegates in Congress, August 1774
At this point in August 1774, the instructions offered by Jefferson do not speak of rebellion or revolution from the British crown. In fact, there are deliberate statements of allegiance to the governing power and a desire to work within the system. The issues of British rule in the American Colonies appears to be focused in the efforts of one General Gage, who seems to have taken upon himself the enforcement of British rule beyond reason in Massachusetts
To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Hazard, with Jefferson’s MS Memoranda, 23 August 1774
This was a communication and effort to compile the history of the United States or the American colonies. This contains an exhaustive list of documents, or legal correspondences, between individuals in the American colonies and the British government dating back to 1605, almost 175 years.