Speech of the Governor to the General Assembly (November 1766).

• imprint_number: 1766.006
• title: The speech of the Honorable Francis Fauquier, Esq; His Majesty's lieutenant governour and commander in chief of the colony and dominion of Virginia: to the General Assembly, summoned to be held at the capitol, in the city of Williamsburg, on Thursday the 6th of November, in the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George III. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and in the year of our Lord 1766; being the first session of this present Assembly.
• sequence_number: 6
• year: 1766
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Purdie & Dixon
• author: Fauquier, Francis (1704-68).
• notes: Address of the resident governor opening the Assembly session, setting out the legislative priorities of the imperial administration, delivered on November 6, 1766. Fauquier had no particular agenda for this session, but had called the meeting to address regular legislative business following a seventeen month hiatus attending the Stamp Act controversies.
  
  
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