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The House of Burgesses is a term used to by the early colonists in Virginia for the legislative body first meeting in Jamestown in 1619. The House of Burgesses later became what is now the Virginia General Assembly. The modern day version of the House of Burgesses would be the House of Delegates in Virginia.

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