# 2nd Virginia General Assembly

The Second Virginia General Assembly convened from May 5, 1777, to January 24, 1778, in two regular sessions.

## Sessions

* 1st Regular session: May 5, 1777 – June 28, 1777
* 2nd Regular session: October 20, 1777 – January 24, 1778

## Leaders
### Senate leadership

* Speaker of the Senate: Archibald Cary

### Assembly leadership

* Speaker of the Assembly: George Wythe

## Members
### Members of the Senate

Members of the Senate of Virginia for the First Virginia General Assembly:
| Class | Counties | Senator |
| 1 | Amelia, Chesterfield, & Cumberland | Archibald Cary |
| 1 | Brunswick, Lunenburg, & Mecklenburg | John Jones |
| 1 | Charles City, James City, & New Kent | Burwell Bassett |
| 1 | Henrico, Goochland, & Louisa | Thomas Mann |
| 1 | Augusta & Dunmore | Sampson Mathews |
| 1 | Lancaster, Richmond, & Northumberland | Richard Mitchell |
| 2 | Isle of Wight, Surry, & Prince George | Theodorick Bland |
| 2 | Charlotte, Halifax, & Prince Edward | Paul Carrington |
| 2 | Gloucester & Middlesex | Warner Lewis |
| 2 | Spotsylvania, Orange, & Culpeper | James Walker |
| 2 | Loudoun & Fauquier | William Ellzey |
| 2 | Frederick, Berkeley, & Hampshire | Robert Rutherford |
| 3 | Dinwiddie, Southampton, & Sussex | Edwin Gray |
| 3 | Botetourt & Fincastle | William Fleming |
| 3 | Hanover & Caroline | James Taylor |
| 3 | Essex, King William, & King and Queen | George Brook |
| 3 | Prince William & Fairfax | Henry Lee |
| 3 | Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio | David Rogers |
| 4 | Accomac & Northampton | Southey Simpson |
| 4 | Princess Anne, Norfolk, & Nansemond | James Holt |
| 4 | Buckingham, Albemarle, & Amherst | William Cabell |
| 4 | Bedford & Pittsylvania | Edmund Winston |
| 4 | Elizabeth City, Warwick, & York | Augustine Moore |
| 4 | Westmoreland, Stafford, & King George | Thomas Ludwell Lee |

### Members of the House of Delegates

Members of the Virginia House of Delegates for the Second Virginia General Assembly:
| County | Delegate | Notes |
| Accomac | James Henry |
| Accomac | James Arbuckle |
| Albemarle | John Harvie |
| Albemarle | Thomas Jefferson |
| Amelia | Thomas Bolling Munford |
| Amelia | John Winn |
| Amherst | Hugh Rose |
| Amherst | Gabriel Penn |
| Augusta | John Poage |
| Augusta | Samuel McDowell |
| Bedford | John Talbot |
| Bedford | Charles Lynch |
| Berkeley | Philip Pendleton |
| Berkeley | Thomas Hite |
| Botetourt | John Bowyer |
| Botetourt | Patrick Lockhart |
| Brunswick | Frederick Maclin |
| Brunswick | Henry Tazewell |
| Buckingham | Charles Patteson |
| Buckingham | John Cabell |
| Caroline | Edmund Pendleton |
| Caroline | Thomas Lowry |
| Charles City | Benjamin Harrison |
| Charles City | William Acrill | |
| Charlotte | William Hubard |
| Charlotte | John Clayton | Elected in place of James Speed |
| Charlotte | James Speed |
| Chesterfield | John Bolling |
| Chesterfield | Jesse Cogbill |
| Culpeper | Birkett Davenport |
| Culpeper | French Strother |
| Cumberland | Joseph Carrington | Selected to replace Fleming |
| Cumberland | William Fleming | Became deputy attorney |
| Cumberland | Beverley Randolph |
| Dinwiddie | John Banister |
| Dinwiddie | Bolling Starke |
| Dunmore | Abraham Bird |
| Dunmore | John Tipton |
| Elizabeth City | Worlich Westwood |
| Elizabeth City | Miles King |
| Essex | John Edmondson |
| Essex | William Smith |
| Fairfax | Philip Alexander |
| Fairfax | George Mason |
| Fauquier | Martin Pickett |
| Fauquier | Hugh Nelson |
| Fluvanna | Thomas Napier |
| Fluvanna | William Miles Cary |
| Frederick | John Smith |
| Frederick | Isaac Zane |
| Gloucester | Lewis Burwell |
| Gloucester | Mann Page |
| Goochland | John Woodson |
| Goochland | Thomas Underwood |
| Halifax | Nathaniel Terry |
| Halifax | Micajah Watkins |
| Hampshire | Joseph Neavill |
| Hampshire | Abraham Hite |
| Hanover | Garland Anderson |
| Hanover | John Syme |
| Henrico | Nathaniel Wilkinson |
| Henrico | Richard Adams |
| Henry | Robert Hairston |
| Henry | Abraham Penn |
| Isle of Wight | John S. Wills |
| Isle of Wight | Charles Fulgham |
| James City | Robert C. Nicholas |
| James City | William Norvell |
| Kentucky | John Todd |
| Kentucky | Richard Callaway |
| King and Queen | Thomas Coleman |
| King and Queen | William Lyne |
| King and Queen | Henry Todd |
| King George | Joseph Jones |
| King George | Thomas Jett |
| King William | Carter Braxton |
| King William | William Dandridge Claiborne |
| Lancaster | Cyrus Griffin |
| Lancaster | James Gordon |
| Loudoun | Thomson Mason |
| Loudoun | Josiah Clapham |
| Louisa | George Meriwether |
| Louisa | James Dabney |
| Lunenburg | John Glenn |
| Lunenburg | Thomas Pettus |
| Mecklenburg | Henry Delony |
| Mecklenburg | Joseph Speed |
| Middlesex | Beverley Daniel |
| Middlesex | James Montague |
| Monongalia | John Corbley |
| Monongalia | John Pierce Duvall |
| Montgomery | Walter Crockett |
| Montgomery | John Montgomery |
| Nansemond | Willis Riddick |
| Nansemond | William Cowper |
| New Kent | Richmond Allen |
| New Kent | Lewis Webb |
| Norfolk | Matthew Godfrey |
| Norfolk | John Wilson |
| Northampton | Nathaniel L. Savage |
| Northampton | Thomas Parsons |
| Northumberland | William Eskridge |
| Northumberland | Daniel Muse |
| Ohio | David McClure |
| Ohio | George McCulloch |
| Orange | Charles Porter |
| Orange | William Moore |
| Pittsylvania | Abraham Shelton |
| Pittsylvania | Peter Perkins |
| Prince Edward | William Booker |
| Prince Edward | John Morton | Replaced having been elected Sheriff |
| Prince Edward | Thomas Flournoy | Chosen to replace John Morton |
| Prince George | Edmund Ruffin Jr. | |
| Prince George | Benjamin Harrison Jr. | |
| Prince William | Cuthbert Bullitt |
| Prince William | Jesse Ewell |
| Princess Anne | William Robinson |
| Princess Anne | John Thoroughgood |
| Richmond | William Smith |
| Richmond | Williamson Ball |
| Southampton | Henry Taylor |
| Southampton | Richard Kello |
| Spotsylvania | Beverley Winslow |
| Spotsylvania | George Thornton |
| Stafford | Charles Carter |
| Stafford | William Fitzhugh |
| Surry | William Browne |
| Surry | John Hartwell Cocke |
| Sussex | Henry Gee |
| Sussex | Gray Judkins |
| Warwick | Cole Digges |
| Warwick | Francis Leigh |
| Warwick | Edward Harwood |
| Washington | Anthony Bledsoe |
| Washington | William Cocke |
| Westmoreland | Richard Henry Lee |
| Westmoreland | Richard Lee |
| Yohogania | John Cannon |
| Yohogania | Joshua Wright |
| York | Thomas Nelson Jr. |
| York | Joseph Prentis |
| Williamsburg | George Wythe |
| Norfolk Borough | William Roscow |
| Norfolk Borough | Wilson Curle |

## Employees

* Senate Clerk: John Pendleton Jr.
* House Clerk: John Tazewell