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Name
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The Fincastle Resolutions (1775)
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Description
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In January 1775, Colonel William Christian chaired the committee that produced the Fincastle Resolutions, rejecting Parliament's claim of unlimited power over the colonies. They were not a declaration of rebellion — they were a restatement of inherited sovereignty, the insistence that a people's rights did not derive from Parliament's willingness to acknowledge them. The Resolutions were written in a county named after Lord Dunmore's title — Viscount of Fincastle. Dunmore was a Murray, from the same dynasty that held the Lordship of Mann. A Christian wrote his rejection of Parliamentary overreach in a county named after the very family that had failed to protect his ancestral island from that same Parliament. At the same time, three Christians signed the Keys' Resolution of March 1765 opposing the Revestment on Mann.
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Date
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20 January 1775
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Type
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Constitutional Document
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Source
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Fincastle Resolutions text; Christians of Virginia, Manx Note Book (1885)
