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	Rediscovering George Washington . Timeline: Revolutionary War PBS
		July 18, the Resolves are presented to the public at the Fairfax County Courthouse.
		Washington co-authors with George Mason the Fairfax County Resolves, which protest the British "Intolerable Acts"--punitive legislation passed by the British in the wake of the December 16th, 1773, Boston Tea Party.
		The Fairfax Resolves call for non-importation of British goods, support for Boston, and the meeting of a Continental Congress.
	www.pbs.org /georgewashington/timeline/revolutionary_war.html

	:: Lee District Democratic Committee :: Fairfax County, Virginia
		Fairfax County Democratic Committee resolves to support civil liberties and questions the Patriot Act, 1.28.2003.
		Lee District is one of nine Supervisor Districts in Fairfax County Virginia.
		In addition, we hope this site will encourage you to volunteer your time and energy to work for Democratic candidates and causes.
	www.leedems.org (155 words)

	Fairfax County Chapter NSDAR - Fairfax County, Our Home
		Fairfax County Resolves, written at Mount Vernon on July 17, 1774, by George Mason and George Washington, are considered among the founding documents of our nation.
		Fairfax County was organized in 1742 from land on the north side of the Occoquan River of Old Prince William County and was named in honor of Thomas, Sixth Lord Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of the 5,282,000 acres of the northern neck of Virginia.
		George Mason of Fairfax County was a leader of Virginia patriots on the eve of the Revolution and is considered one of the most important of the Founding Fathers.
	www.rootsweb.com /~vafccdar/darfairfax.html (692 words)

	George Washington Mount Vernon - Robert E. Lee
		The Fairfax Resolves, written by Washington's close friend and neighbor, George Mason of Gunston Hall, were adopted at this meeting and later presented to the Convention in Williamsburg by Washington.
		Through Lawrence and his wife, Ann Fairfax of Belvoir, George became acquainted with the influential Fairfax family, who ushered him into the highest levels of Colonial society.
		George Washington was influential not only in the birth and growth of the nation, but of Alexandria as well.
	www.funside.com /visitor_sons.asp (430 words)

	Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics
		Fairfax County Resolves (1774) — Developed the issues that led to the Declaration of Independence.
		Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act, Patrick Henry (1765 May 30) — Protest of a tax without representation.
		The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) — Asserted the position that people could not legitimately be taxed except by their elected representatives.
	www.constitution.org /liberlib.htm (430 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Washington was chairman of a meeting at Alexandria in July that adopted the Fairfax Resolves, and he was elected one of the delegates to the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in September.
		In 1748 he went as an assistant on a surveying party sent to the Shenandoah Valley by Thomas, 6th Baron Fairfax, a neighbor of Lawrence and owner of vast tracts of land in northern Virginia.
		In April 1775 the governor of Virginia, John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore, canceled Washington's Kanawha claims on the pretext that his surveyor had not been legally qualified to make surveys.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0410800-00&templatename=/article/artic... (8711 words)

	Alexandria, VA - Historic Alexandria - Researching Alexandria's Past: Resources for Historic Research in Alexandria
		(Articles document the founding of Alexandria, Colonial Alexandria, 1749-1776, the Fairfax family, streets and alleys of old Alexandria, the port of Alexandria, the McKnight family, The Fairfax Resolves, Alexandria's Revolutionary militia, African Americans in Colonial Alexandria, the Stabler-Leadbeater family, Alexandria in the Civil War).
		"Alexandria Virginia Birth and Death Records." Alphabetical index of death records 1912-1939; Alphabetical index of birth records 1853-1911, 1912-1939, compiled by the W.P.A. Material provides date of death, place of death, cause of death, plus marriage information.
		Cressey, Pamela J., Ph.D. "The Alexandria, Virginia city-site archaeology in an Afro-American neighborhood, 1830-1910." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1985.
	oha.ci.alexandria.va.us /oha-main/oha-hist-research-resources.html (8711 words)

	:: Lee District Democratic Committee :: Fairfax County, Virginia
		Fairfax County Democratic Committee resolves to support civil liberties and questions the Patriot Act, 1.28.2003.
		Lee District is one of nine Supervisor Districts in Fairfax County Virginia.
		:: Lee District Democratic Committee :: Fairfax County, Virginia
	www.leedems.org (305 words)

	July 4 Documents - Fairfax Resolves; Virginia Declaration of Rights and; American Bill of Rights
		July 4 Documents - Fairfax Resolves; Virginia Declaration of Rights and; American Bill of Rights
		RESOLVED that this Colony and Dominion of Virginia can not be considered as a conquered Country; and if it was, that the present Inhabitants are the Descendants not of the Conquered, but of the Conquerors.
		RESOLVED that it is the Opinion of this Meeting, that this and the other associating Colonies shou'd break off all Trade, Intercourse, and Dealings, with that Colony Province or Town which shall decline or refuse to agree to the Plan which shall be adopted by the general congress.
	www.vpis.org /July4docs.html (1617 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Washington was chairman of a meeting at Alexandria in July that adopted the Fairfax Resolves, and he was elected one of the delegates to the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in September.
		Smith, Richard N., Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (Houghton 1993).
		Brookhiser, Richard, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (Free Press 1996).
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0410800-00&templatename=/article/artic... (1617 words)

	The Colonies Move Toward Open Rebellion, 1773-1774
		Bryan Fairfax to George Washington, August 5, 1774
		Suffolk Resolves and Agreement by Continental Congress, September 1774
		Proceedings of the Committee of Correspondence, July 19, 1774
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/amrev/rebelln/rebelln.html (1617 words)

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