250 and Counting

250 and Counting


March 11, 1775: The Botetourt Resolutions

March 11, 2025
Cover art for March 11, 1775: A detail from the Virginia Gazette from that day, with some of the text from the Botetourt Resolutions.

The Botetourt Resolutions was a document prepared by the freeholders of Botetourt County in Virginia that sent instructions to its representatives in the Second Virginia Convention.



Botetourt doesn’t get a lot of attention nowadays, largely because the Fincastle Resolutions arrived first and laid down nearly identical sentiments. But as we’ll see in the next few days, these two counties weren’t the only ones with the sort of opinions that they expressed.