Note 124 — b. An Association against the Stamp Act in a Virginia County, 1766

Upon this passage was based the Sixth Article of the Virginia Association, recommended August 1, by the Convention as follows:—

"6th. We will endeavor to improve our breed of sheep, and increase their number to the utmost extent; and to this end, we will be as sparing as we conveniently can, in killing sheep, especially those of the most profitable kind; and if we should at any time be overstocked, or can conveniently spare any, we will dispose of them to our neighbors, especially the poorer sort of people, on moderate terms."

In time, this passage was copied even more closely in the Association of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia (No. 130 d).