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SPEAKERS CHAIR
HOUSE OFBURGESS
WILLIAM BURGESS
RTYPE CO., N. Y.
COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JAMESTOWN A. & V. CO.
SPEAKER'S CHAIR AND WARMING MACHINE
OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES.
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COpvalONT 1908 JAMESTOWN EX.co
OFFICIAL SEAL
1907
1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
FOR COMMUNICATION THIS SPACE MAY BE USED
No. 30. SPEAKER'S CHAIR AND WARMING
MACHINE OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES.
The first House of Burgesses was summoned to James-
town in 1619, and its sessions were held there until 1699,
when the seat of government was removed to Williams-
burg, Virginia. The last session of the Burgesses occured
in 1774, and in 1780 the seat of government moved to
Richmond, where the old relics referred to can still be
seen at the capitol. The chair which was used by the
speaker of the house was presented to it by Quecn Anne
of England, and the stove, or as it was then called "a
warming machine," was the gift of Baron de Botetourt,
the highly popular colonial governor of Virginia in 1768,
who did his utmost to effect reconciliation between the
colonists and the mother country.
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