amsburg on the 1st day of August next, to
take the sense of this Colony at large on the subject of the
preceding resolves, and that they, together with Leven
Powell, William Ellzey, John Thornton, George Johnston, and
Samuel Levi, or any three of them, be a committee to
correspond with the several committees appointed for this
purpose.
"Signed by--
"John Morton,
Thomas Ray,
Thomas Drake,
William Booram,
Benj. Isaac Humphrey,
Samuel Mills,
Joshua Singleton,
Jonathan Drake,
Matthew Rust,
Barney Sims,
John Sims,
Samuel Butler,
Thomas Chinn,
Appollos Cooper,
Lina Hanconk,
John McVicker,
Simon Triplett,
John Wildey,
Joseph Bayley,
Isaac Sanders,
Thos. Williams,
John Williams,
William Finnekin,
Richard Hanson,
John Dunker,
Thomas Williams,
James Nolan,
Samuel Peugh,
William Nornail,
Thomas Luttrell,
James Brair,
Poins Awsley,
John Kendrick,
Edward O'Neal,
Francis Triplett,
Joseph Combs,
John Peyton Harrison,
Robert Combs,
Stephen Combs,
Samuel Henderson,
Benjamin Overfield,
Adam Sangster,
Bazzell Roads,
James Graydey,
Thomas Awsley,
John Reardon,
Henry Awsley,
Edward Miller,
Richard Hirst,
James Davis,
Jasper Grant."
_Revolutionary Committees._
The County Committee of Loudoun for 1774-'75 was composed of the
following members:
Francis Peyton,
Josias Clapham,
Thomas Lewis,
Anthony Russell,
John Thomas,
George Johnston,
Thomas Shore,
Jacob Reed,
Leven Powell,
William Smith,
Robert Jamison,
Hardage Lane,
John Lewis,
James Lane,
George Johnston,
Clerk.
The appended findings of this as well as a later committee exemplify
the work of these Revolutionary bodies.
"At a meeting of the Committee of Loudoun County, held at
Leesburg on Friday, May 26, 1775....
"The Committee, taking into consideration the conduct of the
Governour relative to the powder which was, by his express
orders, taken secretly out of the publick Magazine belonging
to this Colony, in the night of the twentieth ult., and
carried on board the Magdaline schooner.
"_Resolved, nemine contra dicente_, That his Lordship, by
this and other parts of his conduct which have l
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