How To Use House of Burgesses In A Sentence
- Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding. George Washington’s First War
- In 1619 the Virginians set up an elected legislative assembly, the house of burgesses, which is now the state legislature. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent.; that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency; that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling. Notes on the State of Virginia
- In 1619, Virginia set up the House of Burgesses, the first elected legislative assembly in America.
