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Title: A history of the American people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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formal completeness and its ap-pearance of permanence, as if of a standing politicalarrangement made out of hand. In the year 1765,which was now seven years gone by, Richard HenryLee had taken an active part among his neighbors inVirginia in forming the Westmoreland Association,which drew many of the leading spirits of the greatcounty of Westmoreland together in concerted resist-ance to the Stamp Act. Four years later (1769) theBurgesses of Virginia, cut short in their regular sessionas a legislature bjT a sudden dissolution proclaimedby their royal governor, met in Mr. Anthony Hayshouse in Williamsburg and adopted the resolutions fora general non-importation association which GeorgeMason had drawn up, and which George Washington,Mr. Masons neighbor and confidant, read and moved.There followed the immediate organization of localassociations throughout the little commonwealth tosee to the keeping of the pledge there taken. Virginiahad no town meetings; each colony took its measures176
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NORTH AMERICA 1750, SHOWING CLAIMSARISING OUTOF EXPLORATION. fflE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Aaron, lknox

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