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• Elizabeth City County Court Records, 6 September 1763
  ...he's signature. One side is signed by Wythe "At a Court held for Elizabeth City County, September 6th, 1763," but it is unclear if the text on the reverse ...yCountyCourt6September1763P1.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Fragment from Elizabeth City County court records, in [[George Wythe|George Wythe's]] handwriting. Image
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• History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County Virginia
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County Virginia''}} ...th City County Virginia''] (Hampton, VA: Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City County, 1922).]]
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• Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, and Other Genealogical and Historical Items, 1610-1800''} ...1754).<ref>Blanche Adams Chapman, ''Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, and Other Genealogical and Historical Items, 1610-1800,''
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• George Wythe
  |6thoffice=Mayor of the City of Williamsburg, Virginia |bornplace=Elizabeth City Co., Virginia
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• Wythe's Library
  ...ellent Princes, le Roy Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edw. VI. & le roignes Mary & Elizabeth]]''. London: Printed by the assigns of R. and E. Atkins, esquires, for Samu ...ising in the Severall Courts of Record at Westminster in the Raignes of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charles With the Resolutions of the Judges of
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• George Wythe Collection
  ...ellent Princes, le Roy Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edw. VI. & le roignes Mary & Elizabeth]]''. London: Printed by the assigns of R. and E. Atkins, esquires, for Samu ...ising in the Severall Courts of Record at Westminster in the Raignes of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charles With the Resolutions of the Judges of
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• Known Surviving Wythe Volumes
  ...e, le roigne Mary, le roy &amp; roigne Phillip &amp; Mary, &amp; le roigne Elizabeth. [1548-1579] Ouesque vn table perfect des choses notables contenus en ycell ...s of King Edward VI, Queen Mary, King and Queen Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth [1548-1579] Originally written in French, and now faithfully translated int
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• Memoirs of the Late George Wythe, Esquire
  GEORGE WYTHE, the subject of these memoirs was born in Elizabeth City in the year 1726. His father was a respectable farmer in middling circumsta
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• Genesis and Birth of the Federal Constitution
  ...ythe, had come from England in 1680 and settled in the county of Elizabeth City, where he married Anne Shepherd, daughter of John Shepherd. His father was ...e of Peyton Randolph. He succeeded Armistead Burwell as a burgess from the city of Williamsburg which he represented until 1756. He moved to Spottsylvania
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• Blackstone's Commentaries
  ...of rare books, who bequeathed his library to the City of Asheville. Martha Elizabeth Norburn Mead, ''Asheville: In Land of the Sky'' (Asheville, NC: Dietz Press
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• Letters and Papers
  ...ture between Sym's Free School and George Wythe]], 15 July 1760, Elizabeth City county records. *[[Elizabeth City County Court Records, 6 September 1763|Elizabeth City County Court Records]], 6 September 1763, in the [http://digitalcollections
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• Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), 19 May 1775
  ..., ''Berkeley'', ''Betecourt'', ''Chesterfield'', ''Culpeper'', ''Elizabeth City'', ''Essex'', ''Fairfax'', ''Fincastle'', ''Goochland'', ''Hampshire, Hanov
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• Notes for the Biography of George Wythe
  ...the year 1727. or 1728. of a respectable family in the county of Elizabeth city on the shores of the Chesapeak.
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• George Wythe the Colonial Briton
  ...six full years ago. In the spring of 1931 Mr. Frank L. Jones, of New York City, Vice-President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, sponsored among Ha ...husband at the cornerstone ceremonies of the Wythe school building in that city. Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, rector of the Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg,
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• Dandridge v. Lyon
  ...ted all their property. Frazer then wrote a will leaving "a Negro girl" to Elizabeth Willis after Mary Lyon's death, and leaving "all the remainder part of my e ...ndridge's executors could not get the judgment validated until after James City County Court issued a verdict in favor of Thomas II.
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• Venerable Old Tree
  ...le, but more particularly to the Virginia public. He was born in Elizabeth City county, in 1726, only ten years after Gov. Spotswoods' bugles had awakened ...cemetery. If this be so, his remains have probably been removed. When the city of Richmond committed the sacrilege of pulling down this wall and exposing
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• Memoir of the Author
  George Wythe was born in the County of Elizabeth City, Virginia, in 1726. His mother was one of five daughters of [[George Keith| ...erior Court, or the vestry of any parish. It held two terms a year, in the City of Williamsburg.&#42;
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• Chancellor Wythe's Death
  He was born in the county of Elizabeth City, on the shores of the Chesapeake , in 1726, and inherited an estate ample f ...Spotsylvania Co., Virginia.</ref> with whom he studied law; secondly, to [[Elizabeth Taliaferro Wythe|Miss Taliaferro]], residing in the neighborhood of William
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• Great American Lawyers
  ...randfather, came to Virginia about 1680, and was a magistrate of Elizabeth City County for many years. He died in 1694, leaving a son of the same name, who <div style="font-size: 85%;">¹ Elizabeth City County Records.</div></blockquote>
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• Henry Clay to B. B. Minor, 3 May 1851
  ...the following letter from the late Mr. CLAY to B. B. Minor, Esq., of this city,&mdash;containing an interesting notice of the eminent patriot and judge, G ...he had taken in public affairs. I understood that he was born in Elizabeth City; that he was taught the Greek letters by his mother, and afterwards, by her
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• Life of Patrick Henry
  ...he charge of pedantry; and his admiration of the gigantic writers of Queen Elizabeth's reign, had unfortunately betrayed him into an imitation of their quaintne ...of safety, the members of the general convention, the inhabitants of this city, &c. &c. The resolutions being read aloud to the army, the following toasts
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• Daniel Call
  ...s and began his practice in Petersburg.<ref>Ibid.</ref>In 1787, he married Elizabeth Taliaferro, George Wythe's niece. She died in 1793, shortly after the birth ...edgeable, skilled, and tenacious advocate" and joined the top ranks of the city's legal profession.<ref>Ibid., 514.</ref> In 1797, Call married Lucy Ambler
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• Biographical Sketch of the Judges
  "GEORGE WYTHE, chancellor of Virginia, was born in the county of Elizabeth City in 1726. His mother possessed uncommon strength of mind and knowledge, and ...ction in the general science of law. So that, upon his return to Elizabeth City, in the course of a year or two, he had made little progress; but he then a
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