Virginia County Committees
1774 - 1775

From

The

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

Vol. 5 - No. 4. - Apr., 1897

Transcribed by K. Torp Thanks Kim

(Continued from page 94 (Note: which we don't have)

Original Author

Charles Washington Coleman



After the first installment of these lists was put into type, an opportunity offered for a consultation of Force's American Archives, series four. From this repository of most valuable historical material, eighteen additional lists were recovered. Under the alphabetical arrangement by counties, eleven of these would have fallen naturally into place in the first installment. To avoid confusion, the alphabetical arrangement is continued from the point reached in the previous number, and the eleven lists added as a supplement.

One other list, that for Goochland county, was taken from a manuscript note in a Virginia almanac for the year 1775, once the property of the Rev. William Douglas, of the parish of St. James Northam, in that county. Where the name of the publisher and date of a Gazette is not given with a list, it is understood that the copy is made from Force's Archives. It is hoped that other lists will be forthcoming.


Committee for Mecklenburg County - chosen 8 May, 1775

John Speed, Chairman

Bennett Goode

William Lucas

Henry Speed

Francis Ruffin

Lewis Burwell

Robert Burton

Edmund Taylor

Cleverious Coleman

Thacker Burwell

Sir Peyton Skipwith

Benjamin Whitehead

George Baskerville

Reuben Vaughan

Joseph Speed

John Tabb

John Jones

William Leigh

Robert Ballard

Samuel Hopkins, Jun.

John Ballard, Jun.

Isaac Holmes, Clerk

[Dixon & Hunter, 3 June, 1775.]


Committee for New Kent County, 9 March, 1775. (Partial list.)

John Armistead

William Clayton

Richmond Allen

George B. Poindexter

Edwin Waddill

William Smith, Clerk

[Purdie, 5 May, 1775.]


Committee for Norfolk county, 20 July, 1775

George Veal

John Wilson

James Webb

Matthew Godfrey

John Portlock

Edward Strong

Arthur Boush

Thomas Creech

Bassett Moseley

Abraham Wormington

Edward Archer

Caleb Herbert

John Willoughby, sen.

David Porter

Stephen Wright

William Smith

James Nicholson

Thomas Nash, jun.

Charles Mayle

James Grymes

(Western Branch)

Goodrich Boush

Benjamin Crooker

Malachi Wilson, jun.

Malachi Maund

Cornelius Calvert

George Kelly

Alexander Skinner

Samuel Portlock

Patrick Mackey

John Willoughby, jun.

John Brickel, jun.

Henry Bressi

Paul Proby

Daniel Sanford

William Bresi

[Holt's Va. Gaz. & Norfolk Intelligencer, 26 July, 1775.]


Committee for Norfolk Burrough, 1775.

Matthew Phripp, Chairman

James Taylor

John Boush

John Hutchings

James Holt

John Lawrence

Niel Jamieson

Joseph Hutchings

Robert Taylor

Thomas Newton, jun.

Thomas Claiborne

Thomas Ritson

Samuel Inglis

William Davies, Sec'y

[Dixon & Hunter, 25 February, 1775.]


Committee for Northampton county, chosen 13 December, 1774

John Bowdoin, President

Patrick Harmenson

Thomas Dalby

William Harmenson

John Harmenson, sen.

George Savage

John Stratton

Thomas Fisher

Isaac Avery

William Simpkins

John Kendall

John Burton

Littleton Savage

Michael Christian

Adiel Milby

Zerobable Downing

John Wilkins

Samuel S. M'Croskey

Henry Guy

William Ronald

Griffin Stith

Nathaniel Littleton Savage

John Respise

John Blair

[Dixon & Hunter, 4 February, 1775.]


Committee for Orange county, chosen 22 December, 1774

James Madison, Chairman

James Walker

James Taylor

William Pannill

William Bell

Francis Moore

Thomas Barbour

James Madison, jun.

Zachariah Burnley

Lawrence Taliaferro

Rowland Thomas

Thomas Bell

William Moore

Vivion Daniel

John Scott

Francis Taylor, Clerk

[Dixon & Hunter, 28 January, 1775.]

Committee for Pittsylvania county, chosen 26 January, 1775

Abraham Skelton

Robert Williams, Chairman

Thomas Dilliard

William Todd

Abraham Penn

Peter Perkins

Benjamin Lankford

Thomas Terry

Arthur Hopkins

Hugh Challus

Charles L. Adams

James Walker

William Peters Martin, Clerk  

Daniel Shelton

William Ward

Edmund Taylor

Isaac Clements

Gabriel Shelton

Joseph Roberts

Peter Wilson

William Short

Henry Conway

John Payne sen.

William Witcher

Henry Williams

John Salmon

Rev. Lewis Gwillam

Richard Walden

Peter Saunders

John Wilson

Crispin Shelton

[Dixon & Hunter, 11 Feb., 1775.]


Committee for Prince Edward 1 county, chosen 20 Nov. 1775

Robert Lawson

Nathaniel Venable

John Nash, jun

James Allen, sen

William Booker

Thomas Scott, sen

William Bibb

John Morton

Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith

Obediah Woodson

John Nash, sen., Chairman

David Walker

Rev. Richard Sankey

John Watson

John Halcombe

Philamon Halcombe

Henry Walker

Joseph Parks

Thomas Flournoy

Andrew Baker

James Clarke, Clerk

Benjamin Lawson, Clerk

1 A partial list for Prince Edward county of 19 June, 1775, gives, with seven names on the above list, those of    Francis Watkins and Thomas Haskins.

Committee for Princess Anne county, chosen 6 December 1774

Anthony Lawson Esq. Ch'man

Capt. Dennis Dawley

William Robinson

Capt. James Henley

Major Christopher Wright

Capt. John Ackiss

Capt. James Kempe

Capt. Frederick Boush

Capt. William Nimmo

Capt. Jacob Hunter

Anthony Walke jun.

Capt. William Hancock

John Hancock

William Woodhouse

Thomas Reynolds Walker

Thomas Brock

Capt. Edward Cannon

Cason Moore

William Keeling jun.

Thomas Old, sen

Joel Cornick jun.

James Tooley

George Jamison sen.

Thomas Abbot, Clerk

Capt. Erasmus Haynes


Committee for Prince William county chosen 9 December 1774

Thomas Blackburn

Hugh Brent

Foushee Tebbs

John M'Millian

Cuthbert Bullitt

James Triplett

Henry Lee

William Carr

William Alexander

Andrew Leitch

Jesse Ewell

Howson Hore

Cuthbert Harrison

James Ewell

Thomas Atwell

John Brett

William Grayson

John Peyton

Lynaugh Helm

James Gwatkin

Henry Peyton

Richard Graham

John Hooe

William Tebbs

William Brent

Evan Williams, clerk


Committee for Southampton county 8 April 1775

Edwin Gray, chairman

Thomas Williamson

Richard Kello

James Ridley

George Gurley Clerk

Benjamin Ruffin

Henry Taylor

John Thomas Blow

Peter Butts

Benjamin Clements, jun

Joshua Nicholson

Thomas Edmunds

Benjamin Ruffin jun

Thomas Blunt

Thomas Edmunds

Samuel Kello, Clerk

[Dixon & Hunter, 6 May 1775]


Committee for Spottsylvania county, chosen 17 Nov 1775

Edward Herndon

Mann Page

Joseph Herndon

John Craig

Fielding Lewis [Chairman]

James Tutt

Joseph Brock

Thomas Colson

Mann Page jun.

Charles Washington *

John Lewis Attorney

Francis Thornton

John Herndon

William Parker

Beverly Winslow

George Thornton

Oliver Towles

James Wegglesworth

George Stubblefield

Hugh Mercer

Mordecai Buckner

Alexander Dick, Clerk


Committee for Surry county, 5 February 1776

William Hart

Benjamin Putney

Allen Cocke

James Kee

William Brown

John Cocke

William Clinch

John Watkins

N. Faulcon jun.

Willis Wilson

Ethelred Gray

William Hamlin

Charles Judkins

Henry Howard

John Cocke jun.

William Nelson

John Watkins jun.

Lemuel Cocke

John H. Cocke

Rev. B. Glagrove

William Simmons

John Wesson, Clerk


Committee for Sussex county, 8 May 1775

David Mason

Augustine Claiborne

Michael Blow chairman

Henry Gee

John Cargill

William Nicholson

William Blunt

Robert Jones

John Peters

John Mason, jun.

James Jones

George Rieves

Richard Parker

George Booth.

[Purdie, 7 July 1775]


Committee for Warwick county chosen 23 November 1774

Col. Wm. Harwood chairman

John Jones

Maj. William Langhorne

William Digges

E. Harwood

William Dudley

Thomas Haynes

Francis Leigh

Richard Cary

Joseph Massenburgh

Hinde Russell

Robert Lucas, Clerk

Benjamin Wills


Committee of Westmoreland county 31 January, 1775

Rev. Thos. Smith [Chairman]

Burdett Ashton

Philip Smith

Benedict Middleton

Richard Henry Lee

George Turberville

John Augustine Washington *

John Middleton

John Turberville

William Bankhead

Daniel M'Carty

John Martin

William Pierce

Joseph Fox

Joseph Pierce

John Ashton, jun.

Thomas Chilton

Samuel Rust

William Bernard

William Berryman

Richard Parker

James Davenport

Beckwith Butler

Woffendel Kendel

Fleet Cox

Daniel Fitzhugh

Daniel Tebbs

Benjamin Weeks

George Steptoe

Richard Lee

John Ashton

Thomas Fisher

William Nelson

Edward Sanford

Richard Buckner

James Davenport, clerk


Committee for the City of Williamsburg, chosen December, 1774

Hon. Peyton Randolph Esq.

Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq.

Benjamin Waller

John Dixon

James Cocke

William Pasteur

James Southall

Benjamin Powell

James Hubard

George Wythe

Thomas Everard

John Tazewell

Robert Nicholson

John Carter.

John Minson Galt

[Purdie & Dixon, 22 December, 1774.]

The following list of chairmen and clerks of various committees not appearing in the foregoing lists is made from reports of proceedings published from time to time in the gazettes:

Albemarle, 9 December, 1775,

John Walker, chairman.

Brunswick, 2 February, 1775,

Rev. Thomas Lundie, chairman.

Brunswick, 2 February, 1775,

James Alexander Watson, clerk

Chesterfield, 7 April, 1775,

Jerman Baker, clerk.

Culpeper, 1775,

Robert Green, chairman.

Gloucester, 29 April, 1775,

Warner Lewis, chairman

Gloucester, 29 April, 1775,

Jasper Clayton, clerk.

James City, 13 February, 1775,

Benjamin Carter Waller, clerk.

Middlesex, 6 June, 1775,

Samuel Klug, chairman.

Middlesex, 6 June, 1775,

Lodowick Jones, clerk.

Nansemond, 8 April, 1775,

John Gregorie, clerk

New Kent, ---- ---------, 1774

Thomas Adams, chairman.

Norfolk (county), 21 Jan., 1775

Benjamin Crooker, clerk

Prince George, 3 July, 1775,

Richard Bland, chairman.

Prince George, -- ------, 1774

Theodorick Bland, clerk

Richmond, 12 May, 1775

Landon Carter, clerk

Sussex, 6 April. 1775,

Thomas Peete, clerk

Sussex, 6 April. 1775,

John Massenburg, clerk.

Westmoreland, 23 May, 1775,

Rev. Thomas Smith, chairman

Williamsburg, 21 Jan., 1775,

Matthew Davenport, clerk.

York, 6 May, 1775,

William Russell, clerk


"Committee of Intelligence," appointed at a meeting of the committee for Prince George county held at Blandford, 8 May, 1775, "to convey any alarm, as speedily as possible, to the adjacent counties," the same "mode" being recommended to the other counties in the colony:

Benjamin Harrison of Brandon

David Meade

Richard K. Meade

Hubbard Wyatt

Peter Eppes

James Cocke

Nathaniel Harrison

John Baird

Robert Boyd

William McWhann

Richard Bland, jun.

Theodorick Bland, jun.

Nathaniel Raines

Thomas Bonner

John Raines, jun.

[Dixon & Hunter, 3 June 1775]


Committee for Halifax county North Carolina 1775

Willie Jones, Chairman

Benjamin McCulloch

John Bradford

William Ashton

David Sumner

Joseph John Williams

Thomas Haynes

Egbert Haywood

Nicholas Long

Samuel Weldon

James Hogun

A. Davis, Clerk

[Dixon & Hunter, 28 January 1775]


ADDITIONAL LISTS.


Committee for Accomac county chosen 23 December 1774

Goerge Parker

William Parramore

Southy Simpson, Chairman

James Arbuckle

Isaac Smith

Thomas Bayley

Charles Bagwell

John Watts

Thomas Cuppin

William Selby

James Henry

William Riley

Clement Parker

Caleb Upshaw

Tully Robinson Wise

George Corbin

William Seymour

George Stewart

Thomas Teackle

Alexander Stockly

Arthur Upshaw

John Powell, Clerk


Committee for Augusta county, 22 February 1775 (Partial List)

George Croghan

John Gibson

John Campbell

Dorsey Penticost.

Edward Ward

Edward Cook

Thomas Smallman

William Crawford

John Cannon

Deveruex Smith

John McCullaugh

John Anderson

David Rogers

David Shepherd

Jacob Vanmetre

William Elliot

Henry Enoch

Richmond Willis

James Ennis

Samuel Sample

George Willson

John Ormsby

William Vance

Richard McMaher

William Gee

John Nevill

George Vanlandingham

John Sweringer.


Committee for Bedford county chosen 23 May 1775

John Talbot Chairman

John Ward

Charles Lynch

John Callaway

William Meade

William Callaway, jun

Richard Stith

John Quarles

Guy Smith

Simon Miller

John F. Patrick

Haynes Morgan

James Callaway

William Leftwich

Gross Scruggs

William Trigg

David Rice

George Stovall

Edmond Winston

Robert Alexander, Clerk

James Steptoe


Committee for Charles City county chosen 17 Dec 1774

Benjamin Harrison, Chairman

Freeman Walker

William Acrill

Francis Dancy

Francis Eppes

William Christian

William Edloe

James Bray Johnson

Rev. James Ogilvie

Peter Royster

William Green Munford

Henry Southall

William Rickman

Benjamin Dancy

Thomas Holt

James Eppes

Philip Parr Edmondson

John Brown

Benjamin Harrison jun.

Stith Hardyman

William Gregory

William Edloe, jun

Samuel Harwood

Henry Armistead

David Minge

William Royall

John Edloe

Edward Stubblefield

George Minge

Patrick Murdock, clerk

John Tyler


Committee for Elizabeth City county and Town of Hampton chosen 23 November, 1775

John Tabb

George Booker

George Wray

James Wallace Bayley

John Allen

John Parsons

Miles King

Henry King

Augustine Moore

Jacob Wray

Edward Cooper

John Jones

Wilson Miles Cary

William Roscoe Wilson Curle

Westwood Armistead Chairman

John King

John Cary

Joseph Cooper

Moseley Armistead

William Mallory

Robert Bright, Clerk

Simon Hollier


Committee for Essex county, chosen 6 December 1774

John Upshaw, Chairman

John Henshaw

William Roane

William Smith

James Edmondson

Augustine Moore

Thomas Boulware

John Beale

John Lee

Henry Garnett

Meriwether Smith

Robert Rennolds

Thomas Roane

John Brockenborough

Robert Beverley

Thomas Streshly

Muscoe Garnett

Thomas Waring

William Young, Clerk

Archibald Ritchie


Committee for Fincastle county chosen 20 January 1775

Rev. Charles Cummings

Capt. James M'Gavock

Col. William Preston

Capt. William Campbell

Col. William Christian, Chairman

Capt. Thomas Madison

Capt. Stephen Trigg

Capt. Daniel Smith

Maj. Arthur Campbell

Capt. William Russell

Maj. William Inglis

Capt. Evan Shelby

Capt. Walter Crocket

Lieut. William Edmondson

Capt. John Montgomery

David Campbell, Clerk


Committee for Goochland county 1775

John Woodson

Nathaniel Massie

Thomas Underwood

Reuben Ford

John Hopkins

John Ware

William Holman

Thomas Fleming

Robert Lewis

Matthew Woodson

Col. Randolph

Stephen Sampson

Matthew Vaughan

Elisha Leek

Joseph Woodson.

John Payne

William Royster

Joseph Watkins

William Roberts

Tarlton Fleming

Robert Coleman

[MSS note by Rev. William Douglas.]


Committee for Isle of Wight county, December 1774

John S. Willis

John Mallory

Josiah Parker

Goodrich Wilson

B. Goodwin

Tristram Norsworthy, jun

Richard Hardy

John Lawrence

Rev. Henry J. Burgess

William Davis

John Day

Nathaniel Burwell

Arthur Smith

Tymothy Tynes.

Thomas Pierce


Committee for Lancaster county, chosen 6 February 1775

James Selden

Hugh Brent

Charles Carter

Edwin Conway

James Gordon

Raleigh Downman

Thomas B. Griffin, Sec'y

William Sydnor

Thaddeus M'Carty

Henry Lawson

Richard Mitchell

John Fleet

Burgess Ball

William Montague

Nicholas Currell

James Ball, Chairman

Henry Tapscot

Dale Carter

John Taylor

Peter Conway

John Chinn

Henry Towles

John Ball

Thomas Lawson.

James Kirk


Committee for Loudoun county, present 26 May 1775

Francis Peyton Esq.

Jacob Reed

Josias Clapham

Leven Powell

Thomas Lewis

William Smith

Anthony Russell

Robert Jamison

John Thomas

Hardage Lane

George Johnston

John Lewis

Thomas Shore

George Johnston, clerk

James Lane


* Brothers of George Washingtom


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