page_title: Fourth Virginia Convention
section_title: Meeting
hierarchical_section_title: Fourth Virginia Convention / Meeting
caption_attribution_description: English: An image of Colonial Williamsburg
context_page_description: The Fourth Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Williamsburg in December 1775.
context_section_description: Edmund Pendleton was elected to preside over the Convention.  The Convention authorized the raising of additional regiments of troops.  It further, in response to Dunmore's Proclamation, offered a ten-day amnesty to any escaped slaves, but promised that any slaves caught serving the British armed forces after the expiration of the amnesty would be summarily hanged.
caption: Virginia Capitol, Williamsburg VA
  where the Fourth Convention of 1776 met
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