Petition seeking a Convention to Revise the State Constitution.

• imprint_number: 1795.022
• title: To the honorable the speakers and gentlemen of both houses of assembly : the petition of ... inhabitants of [blank] county ...
• sequence_number: 22
• year: 1795
• place_issued: Virginia
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Supporters of a Constitutional Convention.
• notes: Petition submitted to the Assembly session of November 1795 asking for a convention to revise the state's 1776 constitution, particularly in regard to representation.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; sole surviving known copy of title has the blank spaces competed in manuscript for Berkeley County, suggesting a Martinsburg origin; however, the possibility of an Alexandria or Winchester origin cannot be excluded; so the indeterminate attribution.
  
  
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