Resolved, That George Washington Esquire, [and 24 others] be a Committee for this county; that they, or a majority of them, on any emergency, have power to call a general meeting, and to concert and adopt such measures as may be thought most expedient and necessary.
Resolved, That a copy of these Proceedings be transmitted to the Printer at Williamsburg, to be published.
[It is possible to find in these instructions by Fairfax County to its delegates to Williamsburg almost every provision of the "Association" adopted three months later by the Continental Congress at Philadelphia. For a very large part of the two documents, the language is almost identical. Much alike as many such papers of the time were, it is impossible to read these two together without being convinced that the committee which framed the Association at Philadelphia had a copy of the Fairfax instructions before them.]
c. Nansemond County (July 11)
[10] Resolved that every kind of luxury, dissipation, and extravagance, ought to be banished from amongst us....
[12] Resolved That the African [Negro] trade is injurious to this Colony, obstructs the population of it by freemen, prevents manufactures and useful emigrants from Europe from settling amongst us and occasions an annual increase of the balance of trade against the colony.[125]
[14] Resolved that to be clothed in manufactures fabricated in this Colony ought to be considered as a badge and distinction of respect and true patriotism.
d. York County (July 18)
[Instructions to delegates for the August Convention, after urging appointment of Virginia delegates to a "General Congress of America," continue:—]