where did the first meeting of the house of burgesses take place?
Virginia more responsive to the colonists. In July 1619, England created a legislative body to be. selected by the colonists called the House of Burgesses, similar to the British Parliament, that. would meet once annually at Jamestown a meeting of the House of Burgesses was held in. Jamestown, the first such assembly of a self-representative type of government rule in the. Americas.