The proceedings of the Virginia Convention of 1775 (March 20-27 1775). The document describes the selection of the president and clerk of the convention-Peyton Randolph and John Tazewell. The document describes the deliberation over the proceedings of the Continental Congress. The document continues to describe other matters such as the conventions response to the order from George III to put for sale all vacant Virginia lands, the appointment of representatives of Virginia in Congress, the sufficiency of the state through increasing arts and manufacture of necessary goods including hemp, flax, salt, and malt liquor, the question of the "embodying", "arming", and training the militia.; American Philosophical Society
The Virginia Convention calls for and supports the "General Congress" to "declare the united colonies free and independent States."; American Philosophical Society
