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Sources
- Original Source: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, fide Callaway Family WebSite, extracted 4 May 2011
- Intermediate Source:Callaway Family WebSite, extracted 4 May 2011
Related
- Person:Robert Cowan (26)
Backghround
- From: Callaway Family WebSite, extracted 4 May 2011
On May 1, 1779 James Callaway of Bedford Co., VA wrote the following letter to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, Mr. Benjamin Harrison, regarding Robert Cowan, a British subject who was rejected admittance into the county because he was considered "unfriendly" to the country. Callaway stated that Cowan had returned to his former settlement in Bedford Co., VA. The Committee of Privileges and Elections reported and resolved on May 24, 1779 that Robert Cowan should not be permitted to reside in the state.
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To Honorable Sir
Speaker of the House of Delegates
in the State of Virginia
Bedford County, May 1st 1779
Sir,
I have, with the Advice of Sundry Cival and Military Officers of this County, thought it my Duty to Cite before your Honorable House the present Session Assembly, M. Robert Cowan (a North Brittain) who was last Fall Considered Unfriendly to this Country, and Rejected Admittance into this State by the legislature, and who has since then in Contempt of such Rejection, Imposed himself on the Country, and Arrived at his former Settlement in this County. Your Honorable House no Doubt will take such Notice of him as to them shall seem best. I only wish to observe that the said Cowan has been Absent from this State near two years, that he left it at a time when Our Affairs were by many thought Desperate, that he has resided in the King's Dominions till they are now Restored, and that his conduct in every respect before his Departure proved him to be an Enemy to this Country.
- I am Sir
- Your Very Obedient
- Humble Servant
- Signed
- James Callaway
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