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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
  |7thoffice=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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• Lempriere's Universal Biography
  WYTHE, George, chancellor of Virginia, was born in the county of Elizabeth city, in 1726. His mother possessed uncommon strength of mind and knowledge, and
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• Virginia Convention of 1776
  ...Phi Beta Kappa Society, in the Chapel of William and Mary College, in the City of Williamsburg, on the Afternoon of July the 3rd, 1855''}} ...Betta Kappa Society, in the Chapel of the William and Mary College, in the City of Williamsburg, on the Afternoon of July the 3rd, 1855,'']] (Richmond, VA:
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• American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
  ...a distinguished friend of his country, was born in the county of Elizabeth city in 1726. His father was a respectable farmer, and his mother was a woman of ...him from other men, he made a present of one half of his land in Elizabeth city to his nephew, and the purchase money of the remainder, which he sold, was
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• Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
  George Wythe was born in Elizabeth City, County Virginia, in 1726. His mother was a Miss Keith, daughter of a Quake The old city of Williamsburg possessed many attractions; and as he had the means, as the
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• Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall
  ...which I made, up to the period, when, in my first year, I finally left the City of Richmond." St. George Tucker, author of Tucker's Blackstone, President o ...in the conventional way, that George Wythe was born in 1726, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, and that he was the son of Thomas Wythe, delegate in the
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• National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
  ...igner of the declaration of independence, was born near Hampton, Elizabeth City, Va., in 1726. He learned little at school, but was well taught by his moth
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• Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
  GEORGE WYTHE was born in the year 1726, in the county of Elizabeth City on the shores of the Chesapeake, in the then colony of Virginia. He was des ...e; but the arduous duties of chancellor induced him, on his removal to the city of Richmond, to vacate the chair.
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• Glimpses of Old College Life, January 1900
  ...d Kennon, of Mecklenburg, and Anne Munford, wife of Otway Byrd, of Charles City county). . . . "My love to Miss Betsy Maupin." . . . "If mama comes down, w ...d Miss Balfour, and to them I shall give your love. Mrs. Tazewell and Miss Elizabeth also set out for Berkeley county to-morrow, so that the town will be compar
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• Biographia Americana
  ...ion of independence, was born in the year 1726, in the county of Elizabeth City, Virginia. His mother, a woman of great acquirements, superintended his edu
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• Murder of George Wythe
  ...ica has produced, was born in 1726 on his father's plantation in Elizabeth City County. He was taught Latin and Greek by his mother, a granddaughter of Geo ...his country," declared Wythe's funeral orator, "he lived in this expensive city, secluded from all other business but that of the public, to which he devot
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• Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  ...the year 1727, or 1728, of a respectable family in the county of Elizabeth City, on the shores of the Chesapeake. He inherited, from his father, a fortune
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• Teaching of George Wythe
  ...was born in 1726 or 1727 at his family's home, Chesterville, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia.<ref>Unless otherwise noted, all information in this subse ...It was also at this time that Wythe again married, to Williamsburg heiress Elizabeth Taliaferro, who, being fourteen or fifteen years old, was half of her husba
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• Farley v. Shippen
  ...,000 acres of land in North Carolina called Saura town (known today as the city of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%2C_North_Carolina Eden]) for £1000. ...Simon's children (and the plaintiffs in this case), John Simon Farley and Elizabeth Morson.
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• Overton v. Ross
  ...of Overtons Mill: Prolegomena, in the Richmond Common-Law District Court, Elizabeth Overton and Richard Overton, Plaintiffs, Against David Ross, Defendent]],'' ...f Overtons Mill: Prolegomena]], in the Richmond Common-Law District Court, Elizabeth Overton and Richard Overton, Plaintiffs, against David Ross, Defendent'' [s
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• Wilkins v. Taylor
  ...uters, 10th ed. 2014).</ref> then her share of the inheritance would go to Elizabeth II. When Elizabeth I died, Sarah filed a suit in equity in County Court against John Taylor, t
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• Seals of Virginia
  SUPPORTERS—Dexter, a figure dressed as in the time of Queen Elizabeth, representing Sir Walter Raleigh, planting with his right hand the standard ...st of a Virgin naked, and crowned with an antique crown, alluding to Queen Elizabeth, in whose reign the country was discovered.
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• Wythe's Early Life
  [[George Wythe]] was born in late 1726 or early 1727 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, to Thomas Walker III and Margaret Walker at his family's ...erican Aristides,'' 15. </ref> Thomas I was elected to represent Elizabeth City County for the 1680-1682 session of the House of Burgesses and also served
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• History of Virginia
  ...member of the Committee of Revisors, brought him back to Virginia; and the City of Williamsburg placed him in the Assembly, of which we now see him elected ...figure dressed as in the time of [[wikipedia:Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]], representing [[wikipedia:Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]], planting w
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• Collection of Entries
  ...phy'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed February 18, 2015.</ref> Elizabeth was the sister of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More Sir Thomas Mor ...e a serjeant-at-law, and the following year became standing counsel to the city of Canterbury.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Rastell was appointed as a justice of the [h
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• Memoranda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe
  ...his by the name of George Wythe Sweeney living in the county of Elizabeth City Va & he came & lived with him. He was treated very kindly & generously by h ...ef> In addition to his successful medical practice, he was a member of the City Council<ref>"Death of Dr. John Dove," ''Daily Dispatch'' (Richmond, VA), No
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• Wythe Titles Not Held by the Wolf Law Library
  ...warde le Size, le Roigne Mary, le Roy & Roigne Phillip & Mary, & le Roigne Elizabeth]]''. Londini: in ædibus Richardi Tottelli, 1578. Wythe's copy owned by the ...of Overtons Mill: Prolegomena, in the Richmond Common-Law District Court, Elizabeth Overton and Richard Overton, Plaintiffs, against David Ross, Defendent]]''.
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• Geography and Navigation Compleated
  *[[History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County Virginia]]
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• Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder
  ...was more likely written by Judge Cabell's wife, Agnes, to her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Gable Wirt.] ⁷ William Wirt to Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, Jul. 13, 1806, Kennedy, ''[[Life of William Wirt#Page 152|Will
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• Essay for the Discovery of Some New Geometrical Problems
  Keith married Elizabeth Johnston in 1671, also a Quaker, who bore at least three daughters. They em *[[History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County Virginia]]
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• Life of William Wirt
  ...a quotation of a letter written by Agnes S.B. Gamble Cabell to her sister, Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt (Wirt's second wife), regarding scientific and socia ...books. Virginia, therefore, is not the country for my purpose. The federal city is not to my taste, or interest. It would require too much time there to ta
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• George Wythe (article)
  ...rom the original Thomas Wythe, who had emigrated from England to Elizabeth City county about the middle of the seventeenth century. Each succeeding generat ...tephen ''Dewey'' of Petersburg, Virginia, who was married to Wythe's aunt, Elizabeth Walker. See Lyon Gardiner Tyler, "[[Great American Lawyers|George Wythe, 17
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• Countrey Justice
  ...imary reference work." Since Wythe was a justice of the peace in Elizabeth City County, he must have owned one. Brown selected the 1666 edition based on th
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• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
  ...John Shepard. He was a justice of the peace and was a burgess of Elizabeth City county from 1718 to 1726. He married Margaret Walker, daughter of George Wa ...second) [[Elizabeth Taliaferro]], daughter of Richard Taliaferro, of James City county, but he had no surviving issue by either of his wives.
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• Chesterville
  Chesterville was the name of the Wythe family plantation in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, alongside the Back River. The property would grow to even ...inally granted to John Laydon (500 acres), Thomas Garnett (200 acres), and Elizabeth Thompson (200 acres) in 1635. In 1648, John Howitt bought 204 acres of Layd
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• Character and Service of George Wythe
  ...Association, meeting here at Old Point Comfort, in the County of Elizabeth City, the birthplace of George Wythe, might be interested to have reference made Wythe was born in 1726, in Elizabeth City County, on his father's plantation called "Chesterville," on Back River. Mo
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• George Wythe House
  ...[[wikipedia:Powhatan (Five Forks, Virginia)|Powhatan plantation]] in James City County. The house in WIlliamsburg was constructed between 1752 to 1754 and ...edding present, with a life tenancy at Elizabeth's father's death in 1779. Elizabeth lived here until her death in 1787, and George moved to Richmond, Virginia
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• Elizabeth Taliaferro Wythe
  ...ttle is known about Elizabeth in the historical record but by all accounts Elizabeth and George were happily married. ...Taliaferro's will gave George and Elizabeth use of the property for life. Elizabeth died in 1787, and George moved to Richmond in 1791 to serve as a judge on V
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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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• Account and History of the Tazewell Family
  ...dent of Wythe's), and was admitted to the bar in 1796 to practice in James City County. Tazewell became a career politician, serving in the Virginia House ...ing, Wythe was already qualified and practicing in the courts of Elizabeth City, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Augusta, and Orange Counties before he moved to Wi
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• George Wythe, America's First Law Professor
  Born in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, in the year 1726, he was the second son among three child ...I made, up to the period when, in my twenty first year, I finally left the City of Richmond.²
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• James Monroe
  |diedplace=New York City, New York |spouse=Elizabeth Kortright
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• Encyclopedia Americana
  ...wĭth, '''George,''' American patriot: b. 1726 in the county of Elizabeth City, Va., a short distance from Yorktown; d. Richmond, Va., 1806. One of his an ...I made, up to the period when, in my twenty-first year, I finally left the city of Richmond." "The most remarkable instance," [[Oration, Pronounced at the
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• Intimate Pen Picture of George Wythe
  Born in Elizabeth City County in 1736, His Native<br />County, One of Original Eight "Counties" Wh ...nia in the year 1634. His people were of established position in Elizabeth City County before 1700; and his father, Thomas Wythe, was several times a membe
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• Ancestry of George Wythe, LL.D.
  ...es the genealogy of [[George Wythe]] through records of wills in Elizabeth City County, Virginia.<ref>Lyon G. Tyler, "[[Media:TylerAncestryOfGeorgeWytheLLD George Wythe's aunt, Elizabeth Walker, married Stephen Dewey, attorney in Prince George County and, for a
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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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• George Wythe's Gift
  ...his brother-in-law, Richard Taliaferro, Jr., and two slaves to his niece, Elizabeth Call (wife of [[Daniel Call]]).<ref>Lyon G. Tyler, "[[Media:TylerGeorgeWyth ..., have given and delivered unto Richard Taliaferro, of the County of James City, my negro woman slave Cate, with her children and grandchildren, Rachel, Ly
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• Will of Richard Taliaferro
  ...c/the-historic-powhatan-a-hilton-vacation-club Powhatan plantation,] James City County, was a planter and amateur architect. He designed and built the [[Ge ...deeded to his son-in-law [[George Wythe]] and wife, [[Elizabeth Taliaferro|Elizabeth]], their house in Williamsburg upon his death.<ref>Lyon G. Tyler, "[[Media:
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• Wythe to John Tabb, 22 September 1782
  ...676 &ndash; 1739) of [[wikipedia:Elizabeth City County, Virginia|Elizabeth City County]], Virginia, whom Wythe's family would have surely known.<ref>"[http ...its against Minge, Lewis, Willis, and three petitions for lapsed land, and Elizabeth Walker's suit against Pleasants and Robertson, amounting, with taxes, to 2<
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• Historical Collections of Virginia
  ==Excerpt from "Elizabeth City County," 1845==
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• Discourse Refuting Statements
  ...n the county courts and from the autumn of 1748 a busy practitioner in the City of Williamsburg. "He entered upon the practice of law and qualified in the Court of Elizabeth City at the age of twenty years, but soon removed to Spotsylvania County where h
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• S. Bassett French Biographical Sketch
  ...solutions of remonstrance to the House of Commons, 1764; Justice Elizabeth City County, 1770; joined volunteer forces against Gov. Dunmore, 1774; Member Co
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• Virginia Genealogies
  ...wis was a lawyer of large wealth made by his practice. He was attorney for Elizabeth Brown, Dec. 1, 1726. (A. 207.) He rec'd land in Spots. Co., Dec. 13, 1730, ...26; d. Aug. 8, 1748; m. cir. 1756, Hon. George Wythe, LL. D., b. Elizabeth City Co., Va., 1726 ; d. s. p. June 8, 1806, &aelig; 81; will dat. Apr. 20, 1803
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• Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families
  Chancellor Wythe was born in the county of Elisabeth City in 1726 and died June 8, 1806. He studied law with Mr. Dewey of Prince Geor Chancelor [''sic''] Wythe married a second time, [[Elizabeth Taliaferro Wythe|Elisabeth Taliferro]] [''sic''] of Williamsburg, but we ha
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• Legal Form Book of Peter Tinsley
  ...certain property, and another to direct an official ("the Sergeant of the City of Richmond") not to seize or liquidate certain property. No matter the det ...ppear before the Judge of the High Court of Chancery of the Capitol in the City of Richmond on the 17.^th day of the next term to answer a bill i
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• Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
  GEORGE WYTHE was a native of the county of Elizabeth city, Virginia, where he was born in the year 1726. His father was a respectable
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• Between Pleasants and Logan
  ...th his wife, Daniel Teasdale and Margaret his wife, late Margaret Langley, Elizabeth Langley the younger, and Anne May, Defendants''}} ...th his wife, Daniel Teasdale and Margaret his wife, late Margaret Langley, Elizabeth Langley the younger, and Anne May, <div align="right">''Defendants.''</div>
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• Warrington v. Jeggitts
  ...tts," is probably Joseph Jeggetts (d. 1767), a minor official in Elizabeth City County, and likely the tax collector for the parish vestry. See Malcolm Rog The Elizabeth City County court determined that the act of 1758 was binding, and ruled for the
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• Collection of American Epitaphs
  ...rge Wythe late chancellor of Virginia, was born in the county of Elizabeth city and died, after a short but excruciating sickness, on the 8 of June, 1806,
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• Complaint regarding the estate of Frances Wythe
  *[[Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County]]
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• George Wythe and Slavery
  ...orge Wythe enslaved many people both at his family plantation in Elizabeth City County and home in Williamsburg, Virginia, but these are the slaves who are ;Willed to George Wythe's wife, Elizabeth, 1775&#58;
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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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• Virginia Gazette (Rind), 1 December 1768
  Yesterday GEORGE WYTHE, Esq; was elected Mayor of this city for the ensuing year. .... for Gloucester. Wilson Miles Cary, and — Wallace, Esqrs. for Elizabeth city.
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• Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), 1 December 1768
  ...nd PHILIP GRYMES. For NORFOLK borough, Mr. JOSEPH HUTCHINGS. For ELIZABETH CITY, Mess. WILSON MILES CARY and JAMES WALLACE. For WARWICK, Mess. WILLIAM HARW ...ing the Feast of St. Andrew, which is appointed by the Corporation of this city for the election of a MAYOR, GEORGE WYTHE , Esq; was chosen into that offic
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• Rawleigh Colston
  ...]] in Williamsburg, Virginia in the late 1760s and early 1770s. He married Elizabeth Marshall, a niece of Supreme Court Justice [[John Marshall]]. ...ll Family, Or A Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, His Wife, Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families Connecte
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• Lives of the Presidents of the United States
  George Wythe was born in the county of Elizabeth city, Virginia, in the year 1726. His mother, who was a woman of superior acquir
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• Virginia Gazette (Rind), 27 July 1769
  |James City, Mess. |Elizabeth City,
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• Virginia Gazette (Pinkney), 18 May 1775
  ..., ''Berkeley'', ''Betecourt'', ''Chesterfield'', ''Culpeper'', ''Elizabeth City'', ''Essex'', ''Fairfax'', ''Fincastle'', ''Goochland'', ''Hampshire, Hanov
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• Proceedings, etc., in Welch v. Randolph et al.
  At a High Court of Chancery holden at the Capitol in the City of Richmond the second day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand e ...r, Wakelyn Welch surviving partner of Robert Cary and Company, late of the City of London, Merchants, then and there exhibited to the said Court their bill
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• United States Register, for the Year 1795
  | James City, | Charles City,
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• Exact Abridgement of all the Public Acts of Assembly of Virginia
  ...oved, making it law. At the time, George Wythe was a justice for Elizabeth City County and as such, he would have received a copy of this book. The Wolf La
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• Syms and Eaton Schools and Their Successor
  ...as adjacent to the Wythe family plantation, [[Chesterville]], in Elizabeth City parish. Elizabeth City county records, 15 July 1760
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• Wythe the Lawyer
  ...County admission see June 18, 1746, minutes in Order Book, 1731-1747, 489, Elizabeth County Records. For Spotsylvania County admission, see November 4, 1746, Or ...y in western Virginia until 1748 when he moved back to Williamsburg or the Elizabeth County area.<ref>There is some speculation that Wythe moves back home becau
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