Fincastle Resolutions The Fincastle Resolutions was a statement adopted on January 20 , 1775 by thirteen elected representatives of Fincastle County , Colony of Virginia . Part of the political movement that became the American Revolution , the resolutions were addressed to Virginia ' s delegation at the First Continental Congress , and expressed support for Congress ' resistance to the Intolerable Acts , issued in 1774 by the British Parliament . Other counties in Virginia had passed similar resolutions in 1774 , such as the Fairfax Resolves , but the Fincastle Resolutions were the first adopted statement by the colonists which promised resistance to the death to the British crown to preserve political liberties . The Fincastle men had fought in Dunmore ' s War against the Shawnee to the west and were not able to formally express their sentiments about the constitutional dispute until this time . The Fincastle representatives adopted the resolutions at Lead Mines , currently Austinville , Virginia located in Wythe County , Virginia which was then the location of the county seat . The Lead Mines county seat of Government would shortly thereafter move to Christiansburg , Virginia as Fincastle was divided into Montgomery , Washington and Kentucky counties of Virginia . Content of the Resolutions . The resolutions began by proclaiming love for and loyalty to King George III , and that " " we are willing to risk our lives in the service of his Majesty , for the support of the Protestant Religion , and the rights and liberties of his subjects " . . . " But the resolutions go on to express dismay that the passage of the Intolerable Acts has threatened the happy relations between " " the parent state and the Colonies " " , and that these violations of constitutional rights are not acceptable . " To the Honourable Peyton Randolph , Esq . : Richard Henry Bland , Benjamin Harrison , and Edmund Pendleton , Esquires , the Delagates from this colony who attended the Continental Congress held at Philadelphia . Gentlemen , Had it not been for our remote situation , and the Indian war which we were lately engaged in , to chastise those cruel and savage people for the many murders and depredations they have committed amongst us ( now happily terminated , under the auspices of our present worthy Governour , his Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore ) we should before this time have made known to you our thankfulness for the very important services you have rendered to this country , in conjunction with the worthy Delegates from the other provinces . Your noble efforts for reconciling the Mother Country and the Colonies , on rational and constitutional principles , and your pacifick , steady , and uniform conduct in that arduous work , entitle you to the esteem of all British America , and will immortalize you in the annals of your country . We heartily concur in your resolutions , and shall , in every instance , strictly and invariably adhere thereto . We assure you , Gentlemen , and all our countrymen , that we are a people whose hearts overflow with love and duty to our lawful sovereign George III . whose illustrious house , for several successive reigns , have been the guardians of civil and religious rights and liberties of his subjects , as settled at the glorious Revolution ; that we are willing to risk our lives in the service of his Majesty , for the support of the Protestant religion , and the rights and liberties of his subjects , as they have been established by compact , law , and ancient charters . We are heartily grieved at the differences which now subsist between the parent state and the colonies , and most ardently wish to see harmony restored , on an equitable basis , and by the most lenient measures that can be devised by the heart of men . Many of us , and our forefathers , left our native land , considering it as a kingdom subjected to inordinate power , amd greatly abridged of its liberties . We crossed the Atlantick , and explored this then uncultivated wilderness , bordering on many nations of savages , and surrounded by mountains almost inaccessible to any but those very savages , who have incessantly been committing barbarities and depredations on us since our first seating the country . These fatigues and dangers we patiently encountered , supported by the pleasing hope of enjoying those rights and liberties which have been granted to Virginians and were denied us in our native country , and of transmitting them inviolate to our posterity . But even to these remote regions the land of unlimited and unconstitutional power hath pursued us , to strip us of that liberty and property with which God , nature , and the rights of humanity , have vested us . We are ready and willing to contribute all in our power for the support of his Majesty ' s government , if applied to constitutionally , and when the grants are made by our own representatives ; but cannot think of submitting our liberty or property to the power of a venal British parliment , or to the will of a corrupt ministry . We by no means desire to shake off our duty or allegiance to our lawful sovereign , but on the contrary shall ever glory in being the loyal subjects of a Protestant prince , descended from such illustrious progenitors , so long as we can enjoy the free exercise of our religion , as Protestants , and our liberties and properties , as British subjects . But if no pacifick measures shall be proposed or adopted by Great Britian , and our enemies will attempt to dragoon us out of those inestimable privileges which we are entitled to as subjects , and to reduce us to a state of slavery , we declare , that we are deliberately and resolutely determined never to surrender them to any power upon earth , but at the expense of our lives . These are our real , though unpolished sentiments , of liberty and loyalty , and in them we are resolved to live and die . We are , Gentlemen , with the utmost esteem and regard , your most obedient servant . " Signers . The signers of the Fincastle Resolutions , which included many of the leading men of Virginia ' s western frontier , were : The clerk of the meeting was David Campbell .