Resignation as Professor of Law and Police

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In 1789, the Virginia High Court of Chancery, on which Wythe had served since its inception in 1778, relocated to Richmond. This change and Wythe’s growing unhappiness with the direction of academic life at the College caused Wythe to resign his position as professor.[1]

Manuscript text, 15 September 1789

Be it known that i George Wythe have resigned, and do, by these present, resign, my office of professor of law and police in the college of William and mary; in testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal the fifteenth day of september, in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

G. Wythe.

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References

  1. Thomas Hunter, "The Teaching of George Wythe," in The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources, ed. Steve Sheppard (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999), 157-158.