On this day 250 years ago in Augusta County, Virginia, the people of Augusta Country approved a Declaration drafted by Thomas Lewis on behalf of the Augusta County, Virginia Committee of Safety. No copy of this Declaration survives but the journal of the Fifth Virginia Convention includes this summary of the Declaration:
A representation from the committee of the county of Augusta was presented to the Convention, and read: setting forth the present unhappy situation of the country, and, from the ministerial measures of vengeance now pursuing, representing the necessity of making the confederacy of the United Colonies the most perfect, independent, and lasting; and of framing an equal, free, and liberal government, that may bear the test of all future ages.
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