In January 1775, Colonel William Christian chaired the committee that produced the Fincastle Resolutions, rejecting Parliament’s claim of unlimited power over the colonies. The Resolutions were addressed to Patrick Henry. Christian later married Patrick Henry’s sister Anne and served as a Colonel in the Revolution. Whether his family originated on the Isle of Man is a persistent tradition but unproven. His father Israel Christian appears in Augusta County records from around 1749 as a merchant. A Manx probate record from 1751 places Dollin Christian — son of the Reverend John Christian, vicar of Jurby — dying “on the coast of Virginia” around 1745. If Israel was Dollin’s son, the constitutional instinct that drove the Fincastle Resolutions may trace back to a Manx Deemster’s bench. The chain is plausible but the connecting evidence has not been found.