• The Fairfax Resolves were a set of resolutions adopted by a committee in Fairfax County in the Colony of Virginia on July 18, 1774, in the early stages...
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    of the Halifax Resolves was the first official action in the colonies calling for independence from Great Britain. The Halifax Resolves only empowered...
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    produced five resolves, one of which was the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress: The entire text of Declaration and Resolves can be read...
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    Mecklenburg Resolves and the Tryon Resolves in 1775 and at least 90 other documents favoring independence in the spring of 1776, but the resolves from the...
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    George Mason (category People from Fairfax County, Virginia)
    Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections...
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    Washington publicly denounced the slave trade on moral grounds in the Fairfax Resolves. After the Revolutionary War, he continued to own enslaved human beings...
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  • responding to the Intolerable Acts. Other local Resolves soon followed Loudoun's. By July 1774 the Fairfax Resolves, drafted by George Mason at George Washington's...
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    Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves (August 1775) Halifax Resolves (April 1776) Virginia Loudoun Resolves (June 1774) Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) Fincastle...
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    Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves (August 1775) Halifax Resolves (April 1776) Virginia Loudoun Resolves (June 1774) Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) Fincastle...
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    events Initiated, co-wrote, 1769 Virginia Association Initiated, 1774 Fairfax Resolves Continental Association Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture 1785 Mount...
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  • Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves (August 1775) Halifax Resolves (April 1776) Virginia Loudoun Resolves (June 1774) Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) Fincastle...
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    events Initiated, co-wrote, 1769 Virginia Association Initiated, 1774 Fairfax Resolves Continental Association Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture 1785 Mount...
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    of the Suffolk Resolves, which had just been approved at a town meeting in Milton, Massachusetts. Joseph Warren, chairman of the Resolves drafting committee...
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    Ladies' Association, who own and operate George Washington's estate in Fairfax County, Virginia. There is another complete, original, lower jaw denture...
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    Revolution. The Second Continental Congress passed the "Eighty-eight Battalion Resolve", ordering each state to contribute one-battalion regiments in proportion...
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    Perfect Gentleman: The Life and Letters of George Washington Custis Lee. Fairfax, Virginia: Xulon Press. pp. 34–39. ISBN 1-59160-451-6. OCLC 54805966. Retrieved...
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    events Initiated, co-wrote, 1769 Virginia Association Initiated, 1774 Fairfax Resolves Continental Association Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture 1785 Mount...
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    but the legal description legitimized the Ross flag and similar designs. Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate...
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    corrected." Willard added that "Many crew members ... displayed courage and resolve in fighting the fires." On 30 July 2008, Willard announced that Captain...
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    November 2018) Iraq War: 35,411 (as of 18 November 2018) Operation Inherent Resolve: 76 (as of 4 May 2020) United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization...
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    Fairfax deeded Towlston Grange to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband, David Griffith. When the Fairfax Resolves were debated in 1774, Fairfax corresponded...
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    often visited Belvoir, the plantation of William Fairfax, Lawrence's father-in-law, and Mount Vernon. Fairfax became Washington's patron and surrogate father...
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  • Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves (August 1775) Halifax Resolves (April 1776) Virginia Loudoun Resolves (June 1774) Fairfax Resolves (July 1774) Fincastle...
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