The General Assembly of Virginia, on April 14, 1757, passed an act providing for the appointment of a committee to direct the pay of the officers and soldiers then in the pay of the Colony, of “the rangers formerly employed, and for the expense of building a fort in the Cherokee country,” for the pay of the militia that had “been drawn out into actual service, and also for provisions for the said soldiers, rangers, and militia....”

In the following schedule are given the names of Loudoun payees and the amount received by each: 

L s. d. 
To Captain Nicholas Minor                          1 00 00
AEneas Campbell, lieutenant                         7  6
Francis Wilks                                   1 17
James Willock                                   1 15
John Owsley and William Stephens, 15s. each     1 10
Robert Thomas                                     10
John Moss, Jr.                                     4
John Thomas, for provisions                        5
John Moss, for provisions                          2  8
William Ross, for provisions                       2
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7 13  2

By a later act of the same body commissioners were empowered “to examine, state, and settle the accounts of such pay, provisions, arms, etc.,” of the six counties from which they were appointed, “and all arrears whatsoever relating to the militia.”

The following list of Loudoun beneficiaries, with the amounts opposite, is reproduced in the identical form in which it was then submitted: 

L s. d.
“1757.  To Robert Adams, assignee of Stephen Thatcher, for
his pay,                                               5 12 6
Do. do of Thomas Bond, for do.,                          4 10
Thomas Gore, for a rifle gun impressed,                  4 10
Stephen Emorie, for dressing guns for militia,             13
James Clemons, for a gun impressed,                      4 10
1763.  Captain Moss, for 60 days’ pay at 6s.,                  18
Lieutenant Gore, for do. at 3s., 6d.,                   10 10”

REPRESENTATION.

Colonial Assemblies.—­General Assembly of 1758-’61, Francis Lightfoot Lee and James Hamilton; General Assembly of 1761-’65, Francis Lightfoot Lee and James Hamilton; General Assembly of October, 1765, Francis Lightfoot Lee and James Hamilton; General Assembly of 1766-’68, Francis Lightfoot Lee and James Hamilton; General Assembly of May, 1769, Francis Peyton and James Hamilton; General Assembly of 1769-’71, Francis Peyton and James Hamilton (the latter vacated his seat during the session of May 21, 1770, to accept the office of coroner.  He was succeeded by Josiah Clapham); General Assembly of 1772-’74, Thomas Mason and Francis Peyton; General Assembly of 1775-’76, Josiah Clapham and Francis Peyton.

State Conventions.

Below will be found a compendium of Virginia conventions, with the names of the delegates returned by Loudoun County.  Few, if any, counties of Virginia have had an abler or more influential representation in the various State conventions.  From the meeting of the first to the adjournment of the last Loudoun has been represented by fifteen of her wisest and most prominent citizens.