The Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia, housed both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the Governor's Council and the House of Burgesses of the colony of Virginia from 1705, six years after the c
Reconstruction of the first Capitol at Williamsburg
1845 engraving based on then-surviving drawings of the second capitol at Williamsburg (viewed from Duke of Gloucester Street)
Print made with the Bodleian Plate. First Capitol depicted in center row on the left.
Reconstruction exterior
1699 May Day orations
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A series of five speeches were given by five students of the College of William & Mary's grammar school on May Day 1699 as part of "Scholastick Exercises" before an audience of local political leaders
The first page of a transcript of the third oration
The college's Main Building as it appeared in 1702. The speeches took place at the recently constructed building.
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