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(Apr., 1897), pp. 245-255. Page 245. THE COUNTY COMMITTEES OF 1774-'75 IN VIRGINIA. II. (Continued from page 94.) BY 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.] Page 246. 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 N icholson, 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, Page 247. 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, ___________________________________________________ (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. Page 248 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, Benjamin Lawson, Clerk. 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, Page 249. Henry Taylor, John Thomas Blow, Peter Butts, Benjamin Clements, jun., Joshua Nicholson, Thomas Edmunds, Benjamin Ruffin, jun, Thomas Blunt, Thomad Edmunds, Samuel Kello, Clerk. [Dixon & Hunter, 6 May, 1775.] Committee for Spottsylvania county, chosen 17 November, 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, mun., 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.] Page 250. 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.] Page 251. The following list of chairmen and clerks of various committees not appearing in the foregoing lists is made from reports of pro- ceedings published from time to time in the gazettes: Albemarle, 9 December, 1775, John Walker, chairman. Brunswick, 2 February, 1775, Rev. Thomas Lundie, chairman. " " " " James Alexander Watson, clerk. Chesterfield, 7 Apirl, " Jerman Baker, clerk. Culpeper, " Robert Green, chairman. Gloucester, 29 April, " Warner Lewis, " " " " " Jasper Clayton, clerk. James City, 13 February, " Benjamin Carter Waller, clerk. Middlesex, 6 June, " Samuel Klug, chairman. " " " " Lodowick Jones, clerk. Nansemond, 8 April, " John Gregorie, " New Kent, ---- ---------, 1774 Thomas Adams, chairman. Norfolk(county),21 Jan., 1775 Benjamin Crooker, clerk. Prince George, 3 July, " Richard Bland, chairman. Prince George, -- ------, 1774 Theodorick Bland, clerk. Richmond, 12 May, 1775 Landon Carter, " Sussex, 6 April. " Thomas Peete, " " " " " John Massenburg, clerk. Westmoreland, 23 May, " Rev. Thomas Smith, chairman. Williamsburg, 21 Jan., " Matthew Davenport, clerk. York, 6 May, " William Russell, " "Committee of Intelligence," appointed at a meeting of the com- mittee 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, Page 252. 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, Davis 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. Page 253. 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 December, 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. Page 254. 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, Chair- Capt. Thomas Madison, man, Capt. Daniel Smith, Capt. Stephen Trigg, Capt. William Russell, Maj. Arthur Campbell, Capt. Evan Shelby, Maj. William Inglis, Lieut. William Edmondson, Capt. Walter Crocket, David Campbell, Clerk, Capt. John Montgomery, 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. William Royster, Joseph Watkins, William Roberts, Tarlton Fleming, Robert Coleman. John Payne, [MSS note by Rev. William Douglas.] Page 255 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. Burges, 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.