When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him.

Following the British example, the constitutions of Virginia ( 1776 ) and Massachusetts ( 1780 ) and other states thereafter adopted the impeachment mechanism ; however, they restricted the punishment to removal of the official from office.

* 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.

In June 2004, the General Assembly met in Richmond, Virginia and adopted by a vote of 431-62 a resolution that called on the church's committee on Mission Responsibility through Investment ( MRTI ) " to initiate a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.

Lee had returned to Virginia by the time Congress voted on and adopted the Declaration of Independence, but he signed the document when he returned to Congress

Virginia adopted this provision of the English Bill of Rights in the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the Virginia convention that ratified the U. S. Constitution recommended in 1788 that this language also be included in the Constitution.

On May 15, 1776, the Convention declared Virginia's independence from the British Empire and adopted George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was then included in a new constitution.

During the post-war Reconstruction era, Virginia adopted a constitution which provided for free public schools, and guaranteed political, civil, and voting rights.

* April 10 – The First Charter of Virginia is adopted.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, by George Mason and James Madison, was adopted in 1776.

Notable U. S. cities which have adopted UGBs include Portland, Oregon ; Boulder, Colorado ; Honolulu, Hawaii ; Virginia Beach, Virginia ; Lexington, Kentucky ; and San Jose, California.

In Virginia, the Supreme Court of Virginia has more-or-less adopted a similar rule.

Together they adopted a child born to Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances, whom they christened Ray Brown, Jr. With Fitzgerald and Brown often busy touring and recording, the child was largely raised by her aunt, Virginia.

His earlier life included migration to Tennessee from Virginia, time spent with the Cherokee Nation ( into which he later was adopted as a citizen and into which he married ), military service in the War of 1812, and successful participation in Tennessee politics.

In 1785, Kinzie helped rescue two American sisters, who had been kidnapped in 1775 from Virginia by the Shawnee and adopted into the tribe.

Harrison was elected from a neighboring district, however, and he served ( including as speaker of the House when it adopted the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom ) until his death.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

Titus and Vlurma Byrd, the infant's uncle and aunt, were given custody, adopted him, renamed him Robert Carlyle Byrd, and raised him in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

* Virginia Hearst Randt, daughter of late former chairman and 4th son Randolph Apperson Hearst

In 1897, Dr. Philip O ' Hanlon, a coroner's assistant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia ( 1889 – 1971 ), whether Santa Claus really existed.

On April 26, 2007 the Washington Post reported that an SCI cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia had improperly buried the remains of the stillborn daughter of Nsombi Hale in a grave too shallow ( in a grave about 8 inches deep ).

She was imprisoned in Alexandria, Virginia before Clay arranged for her transport to New Orleans, where he placed her with his daughter and son-in-law Martin Duralde.

He was treated in Lynchburg, Virginia, and recuperated in Augusta, Georgia, with his niece, Emma Eve Longstreet Sibley, the daughter of his brother Gilbert.

Among Jefferson's other designs are Poplar Forest, his private retreat near Lynchburg, which he intended for his daughter Maria, who died at age 25 ; the University of Virginia, and the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.

Their daughter, Virginia Eldin, lived in France and was president of the Arnold Bennett Society.

The Dunmores had another daughter close to her age, Lady Catherine Murray, and soon after they landed in Virginia, they had another child, Lady Virginia Murray.

After a year of living with his daughter, Ida, and her husband Michel Gordey, he entered into a romance with Virginia Haggard, great-niece of the author Henry Rider Haggard ; their relationship endured seven years.

He was married to Louise Goff, daughter of United States Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia.

It was established in 1821 and is named after the Native American chief's daughter from Jamestown, Virginia.

In 1855, he married Otelia Butler ( 1837 – 1911 ), the daughter of the late Dr. Robert Butler of Smithfield, who had been Virginia State Treasurer prior to his death in 1853.

William Taylor married Martha Waller, a daughter of Benjamin Waller of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Frémont's mother, Anne Beverley Whiting, was the youngest daughter of socially prominent Virginia planter Col. Thomas Whiting.

A year later she moved to western Virginia to live with her daughter Lucy, who had married George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of George Washington.

The area generally became known as Rimrock in 1926 when Virginia Finnie, the daughter of a prominent local rancher, started a dude ranch which she appropriately named Rimrock Guest Ranch.

While living in D. C, with contemporaries Virginia Foster Durr and Clifford Durr, she gave birth to another daughter, Constancia (" the Donk " or " Dinky ") Romilly on 9 February 1941.

Eventually, John White's daughter Eleanor married Ananias Dare, and they had the first American born English child, Virginia Dare.

The Virginia valley in turn took its name from the Indian word meaning " daughter of the skies.

Shackelford married Virginia Minor Randolph, daughter of Dr. Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph of Charlottesville, great-great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson.