A Convention
That assembly was the House of Burgesses.
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contingent
The first representative assembly in English America met July 30-August 2, 1619 in the church at Jamestown.
The first representative assembly was elected in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1758 (Discover Canada page 16.) D. Mai
An assembly of representatives from individual plantations, as well as the governor and barristers, gathered on July 30, 1619, in Jamestown and became the first representative assembly in colonial America.
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General Court
General court
Jamestown
House of Burgesess
Parliament, the House of Burgesses, and the New York Assembly are all examples of representative government. Parliament, England's representative government, was established during the late 1200s. When English colonists came to America, they brought with them the tradition of representative government. This led to the establishment of colonial representative assemblies such as the House of Burgesses in Virginia and the New York Assembly.