On this day 250 years ago, the inhabitants of Dunmore County (now Shenandoah County), Virginia gathered in the town of Woodstock to adopt resolutions in response to the closure of the Port of Boston and the anticipated Intolerable Acts. The meeting chose to copy verbatim the Resolves passed on June 8 by neighboring Frederick County, Virginia (see my post of that date). The only difference was the County Committee named in the ultimate paragraph of the Dunmore Resolves:

Voted, that the reverend Peter Muhlenberg, Francis Slaughter, Abraham Bird, Taverner Beale, John Tipton, and Abraham Bowman, be appointed a committee for the purpose aforesaid, and that they or any three of them are hereby fully empowered to act.

As subsequently published, Reverend Muhlenberg’s name was misspelled as “Mecklenburg”, but Muhlenberg was a well-educated man who chaired the committee that adopted the Dunmore Resolves, so his name was undoubtedly spelled correctly in the hand-written document. So the misspelling must have been the publisher’s error in printing the Dunmore Resolves.

In addition to their service on the Committee that would assume government of Dunmore County at the start of the Revolution, all six of the Members of the Dunmore Committee would have distinguished careers in the Revolution. Peter Muhlenberg would go on to become a renowned General in the Continental Army, and Col. Abraham Bowman and Lt. Taverner Beale served under his command. Francis Slaughter represented Dunmore County in the House of Burgesses and was one of the 89 former Members who signed the Association of the Members of the Late House of Burgesses on May 27, 1774 (see my post of that date) but would pass away in 1776. Abraham Bird and John Tipton both served as Delegates to the Virginia Conventions and House of Delegates as well as Colonels in the Virginia Militia throughout the War.

Source: https://www.8thvirginia.com/blog/the-dunmore-frederick-resolves