Preamble and Resolution Seeking Information concerning the Illinois or Wabash Land Company Partners (December 18, 1778)

[18 December 1778]

And whereas, this Assembly hath come to believe, that sundry citizens of some of the United States, were, and are, connected and concerned with some of the King of Great Britain's late governors in America, as well as with sundry noblemen and others, subjects of the said King, in the purchase of a very large tract of land from the Indians, on the northwest side of the Ohio river, within the territory of Virginia;

Resolved, also, That the said delegates be instructed to use their endeavors in Congress, to cause an inquiry to be made, concerning the said purchase, and whether any, and what citizens of any of the United States, were, or are, concerned therein.