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The capitol building at Williamsburg, Virginia, where the House of Burgesses met.

George Washington and the “Spirit of Association”

Posted by: Julie Miller

Filed with the correspondence in the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress are six printed copies of an agreement to boycott British goods that Washington, then a Virginia burgess representing Fairfax County, brought to his constituents to sign. The agreement, crafted by the colony’s House of Burgesses (the lower house of Virginia’s colonial …