In 1774 the Virginian House of Burgesses, the first legislature
anywhere in the British colonies in America, elected delegates to
the Continental Congress. The Congress, consisting of delegates
from the 13 British colonies, would become the governing body of
the US during the American Revolution. The House of Burgesses had
come into conflict with the governor of the Colony of Virginia,
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1732 - 1809), over the issue of
fair treatment and taxes for the colonies. Dunmore repeatedly
dissolved the House in an attempt to control the colonists, but
could not successfully suppress them.
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