Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia

by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

[38] Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1761-1765: liv-lviii.

[39] Parliamentary history of England, ed. T. C. Hansard, 16: 38, 39.

[40] L. P. Gipson, The coming of the Revolution, 81.

[41] William Wirt, Sketches of Patrick Henry. The eyewitness account by a French traveler throws doubt on the long accepted statement that Henry replied to the Speaker's charge: "If this be treason make the most of it." American Historical Review 25: 745.

[42] CO5-1330, June 5, 1765.

[43] William and Mary Quarterly, First Ser. 18: 162n.

[44] CO5-1330, Fauquier to the Lords of Trade, Nov. 3, 1765.

[45] Virginia Gazette, Oct. 25, 1765. Supplement.

[46] Virginia Gazette, April 4, 1766.

[47] CO5-1331, J. Morgan to Fauquier, April 7, 1766.