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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 56: (search)
e their commerce as an act of independence; the continental congress had interfered with the old restraints on foreign trade as little as the necessity for purchasing military stores would permit; they had moreover, with few exceptions, suspended alike importations and exportations, so that New England, for example, could not export fish to Spain, even to exchange it for powder; the impulse for a world-wide commerce came from Virginia. On Saturday, the twentieth of January, on motion of Archibald Cary, her convention gave its opinion in favor of opening the ports of the colonies to all persons willing to trade with them, Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies excepted, and instructed her delegates in the general congress to use their endeavors to have such a measure adopted, so soon as exportation from North America should be permitted. That this recommendation should have been left after ten months of war to be proposed by a provincial convention, is another evidence of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 64: (search)
, Dunmore especially reported from the low country the family of the Lees and the whole family of Cary of Hampton, of whom even the sisters, married to a Fairfax and a Nicholas, cheered on their connelerk, Richard Bland recommended Edmund Pendleton to be chosen president, and was seconded by Archibald Cary; while Thomas Johnson of Louisa, and Bartholomew Dandridge proposed Thomas Ludwell Lee. For olved itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the colony; and on the fifteenth Archibald Cary reported resolu- Chap. LXIV.} 1776. May. tions which had been drafted by Pendleton, offerepointed to prepare a declaration of rights and a plan of government. Among the members were Archibald Cary, Patrick Henry, the aged Richard Bland, Edmund Randolph, son of the attorney general, who waunselfish Chap. LXIV.} 1776. May. attachment to human freedom. On the twenty seventh of May, Cary from the committee presented to the convention the declaration of rights, which Mason had drafted