Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.. You can also browse the collection for Blair or search for Blair in all documents.

Your search returned 6 results in 3 document sections:

emorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted. On Friday, the fifteenth, Bland invited a conference with the Council; and the Council with Blair, Blair to Hillsborough, 18 May, 1768, inclosing the Virginia Petition, Memorial and Remonstrance. as acting President after Fauquier's death, agreed to the papers which the House had prepared, and which were penned in a still bolder style thaBlair to Hillsborough, 18 May, 1768, inclosing the Virginia Petition, Memorial and Remonstrance. as acting President after Fauquier's death, agreed to the papers which the House had prepared, and which were penned in a still bolder style than those from Massa- Chap. Xxxiii} 1768. April. chusetts. After this the Burgesses of Virginia, to fulfil all their duty, not only assured Massachusetts of their applause for its attention to American Liberty, but also directed their Speaker to write to the respective Speakers of all the Assemblies on the Continent, to make known their proceedings, and to intimate how necessary they thought it, that the Colonies should unite in a firm but decent opposition to every measure which might affec
American Affairs; Thomas Bradshaw to J. Pownall, 22 July, 1768. The counter memorial in behalf of Boston, proving that the riot had been caused by the imprudent and violent proceedings of the officers of the Romney De Berdt's Memorial, 24 July, 1768. Twelve affidavits sent from Boston in June. met little Chap. XXXV.} 1768. July. notice. At the same time Narrative of Facts relative to American affairs. letters arrived from Virginia, with their petitions and memorial, expressed, said Blair, the President of the Council, with modesty and dutiful submission; but under the calmest language, uttering a protest against the right of Parliament to tax America for a revenue. The party of Bedford, and the Duke himself, spoke openly of the necessity of employing force to subdue the inhabitants of Boston, and to make a striking example of the most seditious, in order to inspire the other Colonies with terror. Frances to Choiseul, 29 July, 1768. This policy, said Weymouth, will be a
Cherokees. Hillsborough to Stuart, 15 September, 1768. The honest Agent, without regarding the discontent of Virginia, which, though notified, Stuart to Blair, President of the Virginia Council, 4 April, 1768. Same to Same, 7 July, 1768, and again, Same to Same, 19 August, 1768. declined cooperating with him, met the ChWestern South Carolina; and on the fourteenth of October, concluded a treaty conforming to the instructions of the Board of Trade. John Stuart to Mr. President Blair; Hard Labor, 17 Oct. 1768. The Cherokees ratified all Chap. XXXVIII} 1768. Oct. their former grants of lands, and established as the western boundary of Virginia,to the confluence of that river with the Ohio. Treaty of 14 Oct. 1768, at Hard Labor, with the chiefs of the Upper and Lower Cherokees. Stuart to Mr. President Blair, Hard Labor, 17 Oct. 1768. Letter from Charles Town, 23 January, 1769. To thwart the negotiation of Stuart, Virginia had appointed Thomas Walker its Commissio