On this day 250 years ago “a general Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Fairfax” at the courthouse in Alexandria adopted the Fairfax Resolves. These resolutions were drafted primarily by George Mason with the assistance of George Washington. The meeting was presided over by George Washington and recorded by Robert Harrison as Clerk. The meeting named Washington and Charles Broadwater as Fairfax’s delegates to the Virginia Convention scheduled for August 1 in Williamsburg. The meeting also named a Committee of 25 members including Washington, Mason, and Broadwater that became the governing body of Fairfax County during the Revolution.
The Fairfax Resolves were considered by many as the most comprehensive and cogent of the scores of resolutions that were adopted by counties and towns in all of the colonies in response to the closure of the Port of Boston and the other Intolerable Acts. They became the basis for the Virginia Convention’s instructions to its delegates to the First Continental Congress and set the agenda for the acts of the Congress.
Sources:https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2218%20July%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=4&sr=
Also on this day in Yorktown, Virginia, the York County Resolves were adopted.
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