Albemarle County Declaration of Independence
On April 21, 1779 a declaration of independence from the British monarchy was signed by numerous prominent citizens of Albemarle County. As of the early twentieth century, the original document was preserved in the rooms of the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond.[1]
Transcription
We whos names are hereunto subscribed do swear that we renounce and refuse all Allegiance to George the third King of Great Britain, his heirs and successors and that I will be faithfull and bear True Allegiance to the commonwealth of Virginia as a free and independent state, and that I will not at any [time] do or cause to be done, any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof as declared by congress and also that we will discover and make known to some one justice of the peace for the said state all treasons or traiterous conspiracies which we now or hereafter shall know to be formed against this or any of the united states of America So help me God.
| Signers of the Albemarle County Declaration of Independence | ||
| George Gilmer | Thomas Jefferson | Samuel Bowcock |
| James Quarles | John Harvie | David Morris |
| William Lewis | John Coles | John Wallace |
| Richard Anderson | James Marks | Matthew Maury |
| Peter Marks | John Harris | Mask Leake |
| James Bridget | John Jouett | Robert Cobbs |
| John Feilder | Nicholas Lewis | Thomas Gooch |
| George Norvell | Benjamin Harris | James Woods |
| Nathaniel Haggard | Samuel Dedman | James Reid |
| Henry Mullins | James Hopkins | Benjamin Lacy |
| Tucker Woodson | C. Simms | William Tandy Sr. |
| Isaac Davis | James Kerr | John Reid |
| Samuel Taliaferro | Michael Wallace | Joseph Holt |
| John Day | Randolph Jefferson | William L. Bing |
| Micajah Chiles | John Hall | Benjamin Jordan |
| Richard Harper | David Allen | John Henderson Jr. |
| William Barton | Charles Kerr | William Barksdale |
| John Greer | Benjamin Henderson | Thomas Thorp |
| James Wm. Crossthwait | Thomas Overton | Henry Copeland |
| R. Dixon | Thomas Martin Jr. | Richard Goolsby |
| T. Marshall | John Wilkinson | Hiram Gaines |
| Daniel Coleman | Benjamin Dod Wheeler | John Prince |
| William Wingfield | Peter Jackson | Castleton Harper Jr. |
| Charles Wingfield | Henry Heard | Daniel Coleman |
| William Leake | John Jouett Jr. | William Wingfield |
| Martin Haggard | Isaac Davis Jr. | Charles Wingfield |
| Peter Ballou | Philip Mazzei | William Leake |
| Thomas West | George Sanders | Martin Haggard |
| William Anderson | Richard Gaines | Peter Ballou |
| Thomas Anderson | William Briscoe | Thomas Fentress |
| Joseph Neilson | William Carroll | James McManus |
| William Colvard | Robert Sharp Sr. | Samuel Rea |
| William Fossett | Robert Sharp Jr. | Abraham Eades |
| Edward Moore | Charles Lewis Jr. | John Fentress |
| William Hays | David G. Mosby | William Sorrow |
| Edward Butler | Isham Lewis | William Fry |
| R. Davenport Jr. | Henry Ford | Charles Goodman |
| William Irvin, V.D.M. | William Sandridge | Joseph Lamb |
| Jason Bowcock | William Chenault | John Bailey |
| Henry Shelton | Thomas Musick | Roland Horsley |
| James Minor | Samuel Huckstep | Richard Harvie |
| Anderson Bryan | Jacob Oglesby | Alexander McKinzie |
| John Fitzpatrick | John Wood | Robert Thompson Jr. |
| John Stockton | Thomas Collins | John Kirby |
| Josiah Wood | Arthur Graham | John Black |
| William Flannagan | Thomas Morgan | William Pilson |
| Peter Ferguson | Charles Hudson | Robert Pilson |
| Nathaniel McAllister | William Jeffers | James Epperson |
| John Henderson Jr. | Richard Scott | John Lott |
| John Lewis Sr. | Bernis Brown | Richard Sharp |
| W. Langford | William Statham | Robert Burrus |
| Peter Burrus | Stephen Hughes Jr. | Henry Randolph |
| John Tandy | Horsley Goodman | William McGhee |
| Richard Goodall | William Shelton | Samuel Karr |
| Spencer Norvell | Littlebury Sullivan | Samuel McCord |
| Orlando Jones | Castleton Harper Sr. | William Karr |
| Stat. Morris | John Newcomb | William Ramsay |
| William Michie | Samuel Bing | David Nimmo |
| Thomas Craig | Richard Carter | William Reynolds |
| John McCulloch | John Wingfield | Richard Watson |
| Charles L. Lewis | Henry Hooper | Shadrach Reynolds |
| William Johnson | Nicholas Hamner | Daniel Reynolds |
| Zachariah Mills | Joseph Terrell | Francis Browning |
| John Thomas | Daniel Goolsby | William Rannald |
| William Hopkins | Richard Davenport | Abraham Gollan |
| Clough Shelton | Charles Tucker | William Cleveland |
| Samuel Woodson | William Hitchcock | James Bird |
| William Ballard | Francis Hodge | his |
| Thomas Jameson | X | John Kirby Jr. |
| George Mann | his mark | mark |
| Daniel Miller | Francis Taliaferro | 21 Apl 1779 |
References
- ↑ Web. Albemarle County in Virginia, C.J. Carrier Company, 1901