The Hubster and I were blessed to tour the Capitol, the seat of Virginia’s colonial government for 75 years, and stand in places where the beginnings of independence in the country we live in took place.
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Here Patrick Henry first kindled the flames of revolution by his resolutions and speech against the Stamp Act May 29 – 30, 1765.
Here, March 12, 1773, Dabney Carr offered, and the Convention of Virginia unanimously adopted the resolution to appoint a committee to correspond with similar committees in the other colonies: the first step taken towards the union of the states.
Here, on May 15, 1776, the Convention of Virginia through resolutions, drafted by Edmund Pendleton, offered by Thomas Nelson Jr., advocated by Patrick Henry, unanimously called on Congress to declare the colonies free and independent states.
Here, June 12, 1776, was adopted by the Convention the immortal work of George Mason, the Declaration of Rights; and on June 29, 1776, the first written Constitution of a free and independent state ever framed.
Our very knowledgeable interpreter for both the Governor’s Palace and the Capitol:
If you’d like to learn more about the public goal, click here. I assure you, you wouldn’t want to ever have been a prisoner here!
The latrine:
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