sentences:  The Burgesses were sitting when in 1774, word came that Parliament had voted to close the port of Boston in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, and several burgesses, including Henry, convened at the Raleigh Tavern to formulate a response.According to George Mason, a former burgess from Fairfax County, who joined the committee in the work, Henry took the lead.Mason and Henry would form a close political relationship that would last until Mason's death in 1792.