6. Fugitive sheets of printed Laws, 1775-1783.
Nineteen separate publications folio and quarto, bound together; the lettering on the back reads:
Laws of Virginia /
Vol VI /
Fugitive sheets 1775-1783 /
Monticello Library /. Only one of the tracts, indicated below, was initialled by Jefferson.
Law 15
i.
Ordinances passed at a convention held at the Town of Richmond, in the Colony of Virginia, on Monday the 17th of July, 1775.
Williamsburg: Printed by
Alexander Purdie, n.d. [
1775.]
4to. 26 leaves: [ ]
2, B-N
2.
Evans 14595.
Swem 22668 and
Bibliography of the Conventions and Constitutions of Virginia, 101.
Clayton-Torrence 453.
The label on the back of the volume is in accordance with the instructions of Jefferson to Wythe, to whom he wrote from Monticello
on January 16, 1796: “
I was so hurried to get ready my collection of printed laws before the departure of the waggon, that I did the work imperfectly.
I have since found the laws of 1783. May & Octob. which I should be glad to have added to the end of my 6
th. volume. if you can procure a copy of those of 1773. I will pray you to add it to the end of the 5
th. volume, and in both cases to make corresponding changes in the middle one of the three printed labels proposed on these
volumes. indeed I would wish the middle label of the V
th. volume to be
Fugitive / Sheets / 1734-1773
& of the VI
th to be
Fugitive / Sheets / 1775-1783
I chuse to bring down the VI
th. volume to 1783. that it may terminate at the same period with the Chancellors revisal . . .
”
According to Evans the copy in the Lenox Collection (New York Public Library) contains manuscript corrections by Thomas Jefferson.
Reprinted in Hening, vol. 9, page 9-74.
[1842]
ii. [
Ordinances passed at a Convention held in the City of Williamsburg, in the Colony of Virginia, on Friday the 1st of December,
1775.
Williamsburg: Printed by
Alexander Purdie,] n.d. [
1775.]
4to. A fragment of 9 leaves only, the complete work has 17; this copy lacks the title, and all after E
1.
Evans 14596.
Swem 22671 and
Bibliography of the Conventions and Constitutions of Virginia, 117.
Clayton-Torrence 466.
On the first leaf below the word
Ordinances in the caption Jefferson has written
December, 1775.
Reprinted in Hening, vol. 9, pages 75-107.
[1843]
iii.
Ordinances passed at a General Convention of Delegates and Representatives, from the several Counties and Corporations of
Virginia, held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the 6th day of May, Anno Dom: 1776.
Williamsburg: Printed by
Alexander Purdie, Printer to the Commonwealth, n.d. [
1776.]
4to. 22 leaves: [ ]
2, B-L
2.
Sabin 100026.
Evans 15199.
Swem 22674 and
Bibliography of the Conventions and Constitutions of Virginia, 164.
Clayton-Torrence 467.
Reprinted in Hening, vol. 9, pages 109-191.
[1844]
iv.
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence
Plantations,
