The Mortgage or Deed of Trust is a legal document in. which the borrower transfers the title to a third party. (trustee) to hold as security for the lender. When the. loan is paid in full the trustee transfers the title back. to the borrower.
Virginia more responsive to the colonists. In July 1619, England created a legislative body to be. selected by the colonists called the House of Burgesses, similar to the British Parliament, that. would meet once annually at Jamestown a meeting of the House of Burgesses was held in. Jamestown, the first such assembly of a self-representative type of government rule in the. Americas.
The Burgesses, operating as the first convention, on August 1, 1774, met and elected representatives to the Virginia convention, banned commerce and payment of debts with Britain, and pledged supplies. The second convention opened in Richmond and met at St. John's Church on March 20, 1775. At the convention, Patrick Henry proposed arming the Virginia militia and delivered his give me liberty or give me death speech to rally support for the measure.