Subject: Questions about the Fort Gower and Fincastle Resolves
Date: Monday 13 July 2009. 12:55 pm.
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From: Jim Glanville <[log in to unmask]>

Fellow VA-Hist list subscribers:

On 5 November 1774 at Fort Gower in the future Ohio, at a "Meeting of 
the officers under [the] Earl of Dunmore," two resolves were 
promulgated. They are available from multiple on-line sources.

Several sources tell that these resolves were either to be printed, or 
actually printed, in a Virginia Gazette (publisher unspecified) in 
February 1775. I have been unable to locate such a printing and wonder 
if some subscriber can point me to the precise issue in which these 
resolves appear. The well-known Logan's Plea, which dates from the 
vicinity of Fort Gower at about the same time as the Resolves, appears 
in the 4 February 1775 issue of Dixon and Hunter's Gazette.

The Fincastle resolves (resolutions) were adopted at the Lead mines in 
the future Wythe County on 20 January 1775 and published in Purdie's 
Virginia Gazette on 10 February 1775, page 4. Do any original, 
handwritten, copies of the Fincastle resolves survive? If so, where are 
they located?

Thanks.

Off list reply correspondence will be gladly received.

Jim Glanville
Retired chemist.
201 Graves Avenue
Blacksburg, VA 24060-5305
www.holstonia.net

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