Thank you for having opened up a new subject to research, "domestic insurrections." I did some more searching and came up with some 1775 documents that refer to domestic insurrections in response to Lord Dunmore's Proclamation:
From the following 1835 book: The Military and Naval Magazine of the United States, Volume 5, pages 323 to 326. The book cites a 1775 letter written after Lord Dumore's Proclamation. I excerpt the following from the letter:
”But enough of this. Independent of these arguments, we may urge, that we have a right to take up arms in self-defense, since we have been threatened with an invasion of savages, and insurrection of slaves, and have had our negroes and stocks piratically taken from us. The laws of God and nature, and the principles of the Constitution [rb: i.e., the British Constitution], justify it; and at present, all the feelings of humanity – every suggestion of policy – and the cries of our insulted and imprisoned countrymen, loudly call TO ARMS.”
The book continued with
The proclamation [rb: Dunmore's] was also noticed and answered by the Convention. Their declaration, (published after the battle at the Great Bridge,) is in the following words:
Virginia, December 13, 1775 Whereas Lord Dunmore, by his proclamation, dated on Board the ship William, the 7th of November, 1775, hath presumed, in direct violation of the Constitution [rb: the British Constitution] and laws of the country, to declare martial law in force, and to be executed throughout this Colony, whereby our lives, our liberty, and property, are arbitrarily subjected to his power and direction : And whereas the said Lord Dunmore, assuming powers which the King himself cannot exercise, to intimidate the good people of this Colony into compliance with his arbitrary will, hath declared those who do not immediately repair to his standard, to be in actual rebellion, and submit in all things to a government not warranted to the Constitution, [rb: the British Constitution again] to be in actual rebellion, and thereby to have incurred the penalties inflicted by the laws for such offenses; and hath offered freedom to the servants and slaves of those he is pleased to term REBELS, arming them against their masters, and destroying the peace and happiness of his Majesty’s good and faithful subjects, whose property is rendered insecure, and whose lives are exposed to the dangers of a general insurrection: …
By the Representatives of the people of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, assembled in General Convention:
A DECLARATION.
…
EDMUND PENDLETON, President
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