Charles Alexander, Sr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A001140

The Fairfax Resolves was a set of resolutions adopted by a committee in Fairfax County in the colony of Virginia on July 18, 1774, in the early stages of the American Revolution. Written primarily by George Mason, the resolutions rejected the British Parliament's claim of supreme authority over the American colonies. More than thirty counties in Virginia passed similar resolutions in 1774, "but the Fairfax Resolves were the most detailed, the most influential, and the most radical."

After Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, the Virginia House of Burgesses proclaimed that June 1, 1774, would be a day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer" as a show of solidarity with Boston. In response, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, dissolved the House of Burgesses. The burgesses reconvened at the Raleigh Tavern on May 27 and called for Virginia's counties to elect delegates to a special convention to meet in August. George Washington and Charles Broadwater were elected as Fairfax County's representatives to the convention.

On July 5, 1774, Washington and others from Fairfax County met in Alexandria, Virginia, to appoint a committee to draft a statement that would, as Washington described it, "define our Constitutional Rights."[2] The statement would also formally serve as instructions to Fairfax County's delegates to the Virginia Convention.[3] The committee wrote a draft that was, in all likelihood, primarily the work of George Mason. Mason and Washington met at Washington's Mount Vernon home on July 17, and perhaps revised the resolutions. The following day in Alexandria, the Fairfax Resolves were endorsed in a meeting of freeholders chaired by Washington.. . . . . .

Signatories:
Robert Adam - Charles Alexander - Philip Alexander - Charles Broadwater - William Brown - John Carlyle - Martin Cockburne - Townsend Dade, Jr. - John Dalton - George Gilpton - Henry Gunnell - Robert Hanson Harrison - William Hartshorne - James Kirk - Thomas Lewis - George Mason - Lee Massey - Edward Payne - William Payne - Thomas Pollard - William Ramsay - William Rumney - Thomas Triplett - George Washington, Esq. - John West . .

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Mortuary Notice: Date: Saturday, April 5, 1806, Paper: Alexandria Daily Advertiser (Alexandria, Virginia), Volume VI, Issue: 1567, Page: 3

Died this morning, at his county seat, in an advance stage of life, Charles Alexander, Sen., Esq.

A panegyric on the virtues of this gentleman would be highly unnecessary, as his whole life exhibits a sufficient demonstration of the excellence of his principles and the purity of his intentions. His family must long remember the domestic endearments of an affectionate husband, and a tender, solicitous father. The morality of his character has never been questioned - his faults were always forgotten when the brilliancy of his virtues was considered - his hospitality, his honor, and honesty demand the undisputed praise of every candid man, of every lover of virtue, and well wisher of society. His lingering and severe disease afforded him an ample opportunity of exerting the heroism of his christianity, he resigned his well-spent life into the hands of that beneficent Creator from whom he received.

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