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  {{DISPLAYTITLE:Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia}} ...ndence]], Chancellor for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and first professor of law in America.
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• George Wythe
  |name=George Wythe |1stoffice=Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
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• Wythe's Library
  ...ssion of Wythe's bequest.</ref> For 200 years, very little was known about Wythe's library other than its existence within Jefferson's massive collection. ...the|George Wythe's]] ''[[Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery]]'' (1795).</p>]]
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• Oration, Pronounced at the Funeral of George Wythe
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Oration, Pronounced at the Funeral of George Wythe"}} ...ondEnquirer13-17June1806.pdf}}|thumb|right|250px|Detail from page three of the Richmond ''Enquirer'' on June 13, 1806.]]
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• Death of George Wythe
  ...il of Virginia's order of procession for the funeral of George Wythe, from the Richmond ''Enquirer'' for [[Richmond Enquirer, 10 June 1806|June 10, 1806]] ...obably arsenic, administered by Wythe’s grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney.<ref>Ibid., 79-82.</ref>
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• Jefferson-DuVal Correspondence
  ...rvive, and ten days after the onset of Wythe's illness, [[William DuVal]], the chancellor's friend and neighbor, began corresponding with [[Thomas Jeffers ...ntly, Jefferson's correspondence with DuVal provides a touching tribute to Wythe,
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• Tenenda Non Tollenda
  ...by the Taking Away or Altering of Those Tenures, Will Inevitably Happen to the King and his Kingdomes''}} |publisher=Printed by Thomas Leach, for the author, and are to be sold by Abel Roper
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• M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae Supersunt Omnia
  |editor=[[:Category:George Rosse|George Rosse]], [[:Category:Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet|Pierre-Joseph Thoulier ...3 B.C.E.)]," accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> He was executed at the behest of Mark Antony, whom Cicero had criticized publicly when Octavian rose to powe
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• George Wythe the Colonial Briton
  {{DISPLAYTITLE: "George Wythe the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia"}} ...alBriton1937.pdf|George Wythe the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia]]" (18MB PDF).]]
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• Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas
  ...mmon Pleas in the reigns of the late King William, Queen Anne, King George the First, and His Present Majesty''}} |shorttitle=Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas
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• Memoir of the Author
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Memoir of the Author"}} ...urt of Chancery (1852)|''Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery,'']] edited by [[wikipedia:Benjamin Blake Minor|B.B. Minor]], Rich
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• Chancellor Wythe's Death
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Chancellor Wythe's Death"}} ...ns1884Title.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Title page from George Wythe Munford's ''The Two Parsons'' (Richmond, VA: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884).]]
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• Richmond Enquirer, 9 September 1806
  ...mondEnquirer9September1806p1p3.pdf}}|thumb|400px|Detail from page three of the [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991003 ...ting verdict of 'not guilty' must have been disappointing, as evidenced by the last paragraph.
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• Great American Lawyers
  ...TylerGreatAmericanLawyers1907.pdf}}|thumb|300px|Title page from volume one of ''[https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma9910 ...by William Satchwell Leney published in the ''[[Memoirs of the Late George Wythe, Esquire|American Gleaner]]'' in 1807.]]
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• Life of Patrick Henry
  {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry''}} ...00px|Frontispiece from William Wirt's ''Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry'' (Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817).]]
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• John Breckinridge
  |3rdoffice=Member of the Virginia House of Delegates ...ng overseer and salesman for the farm, as well as writing and recording in the surveyor's office, gave Breckinridge valuable knowledge which would help hi
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• Richmond Enquirer, 20 June 1806
  ...draft for the [[Declaration of Independence]], found among [[George Wythe|Wythe's]] papers after his death.]] ...[[Media:NilesWeeklyRegister3July1813.pdf|Declaration of Independence]]," ''The Weekly Register'' 4, no. 18 (3 July 1813), 281-284.</ref>
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• Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"A Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson"}} ...wland, "[[Media:RowlandLostPaperOfThomasJeffersonJuly1892.pdf|A Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson]]," ''William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers
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• Jefferson's Constitution for Virginia
  ...inct were admirably adapted to sketch in broad outlines the personality of the session. ...overeignty might not imply distrust whether the rule had been wrested from the King."
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• Virginia Argus, 20 June 1806
  [[File:VirginiaArgus20June1806Detail.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Detail from the ''Virginia Argus'' for June 20, 1806.]] ...ars in the minutes of the ''Journals of the Council of Virginia'' (MSS. in the Virginia State Library), XXVII, 448.</ref>
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• Eulogium on the Late Chancellor Wythe
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Eulogium on the Late Chancellor Wythe, of Virginia"}} ...y a Gentleman of the Bar Before a Respectable Audience in the Western Part of Virginia&mdash;July, 1806]]," ''Massachusetts Missionary Magazine,'' 5, no.
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• Virginia Argus, 10 September 1806
  ...ndEnquirer9September1806.pdf}}|thumb|right|350px|Detail from page three of the [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991003 ...sion 1806, Inclusive, in Three Volumes, (New Series,) Being a Continuation of Hening'', Vol. 2 (Richmond, Virginia: Samuel Shepherd, 1835), 300.</ref>
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• National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The National Cyclop&aelig;dia of American Biography''}} ...nd of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time,'']] (New York: James T. White, 1893), 3:308-309.</ref>
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• Murder of George Wythe
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Murder of George Wythe"}} ...d portrait [[George Wythe]] by [[Depictions of Wythe|J.B. Longacre]], from the ''William and Mary Quarterly,'' 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955), 512.]]
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• Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson''}} ...n Randolph, ed., ''Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson,'' vol. 1 (Charlottesville, VA: F. Carr, 1829), 2, 5-16, 3
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• Virginia Argus, 25 June 1806
  ...eney's indictment for the murder of his great-uncle, [[George Wythe]], and Wythe's servant, [[Michael Brown]].]] ...utoring him in Greek and Latin. Wythe's cook, [[Lydia Broadnax]], survived the poisoning.
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• Beverley v. Rennolds
  ...s by the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions''], by George Wythe. 2nd ed. (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1852).]] ...nd: J.W. Randolph, 1852): 121.</ref> was a case discussing whether a court of equity could nullify an arbitrator's award based on a void contract.
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• Teaching of George Wythe
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Teaching of George Wythe"}} ...'' ed. Steve Sheppard (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999). Image courtesy of the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?421201 New York Public Libra
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• George Wythe Bibliography
  ...at the [https://www.virginiacapitol.gov/ Virginia State Capitol,] Library of Virginia art collection, Richmond, Virginia.</center>]] *Blackburn, Joyce. ''George Wythe of Williamsburg.'' New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
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• Page v. Pendleton
  ...ell as why a nation's laws are binding on its citizens, regardless of when the laws were passed. ...ebts with English merchants.<ref>Emory G. Evans, "Private Indebtedness and the Revolution in Virginia, 1776 to 1796", 28 ''Wm. & Mary Quarterly 3d'' 349,
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• Seals of Virginia
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Seals of Virginia"}} ...50px|Illustration of state seals from Edward S. Evans' article, "The Seals of Virginia."]]
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• Notes on the State of Virginia
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Notes on the State of Virginia with an Appendix''}} |shorttitle=Notes on the State of Virginia
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• Hustings Court Minutes
  ...lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA760#COURT Library of Virginia].</ref> ...s on the Bank of Virginia in the name of Geo. Wythe, Esq. and drawing from the said Bank by virtue thereof two hundred and fifty dollars to his own use."]
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• Manual of Parliamentary Practice
  ...LAYTITLE:''A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States''}} |shorttitle=A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
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• M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum
  ...3 B.C.E.)]," accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> He was executed at the behest of Mark Antony, whom Cicero had criticized publicly when Octavian rose to powe ...“public right” that influenced the [[Declaration of Independence]] and the Revolution.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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• Hustings Court Order Book
  ..._2_and_23_1806 "Trial of George Wythe Sweeney (June 2 and 23, 1806)"] from the ''Encyclopedia Virginia''.</ref> ...eant of this City, whereupon sundry witnesses were sworn and examined, and the prisoner in his defense fully heard...."</p>]]
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• Memoranda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Memoranda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe"}} ...nda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe: Signed in the Aut[o]g[rap]h. of T[homas] H. Wynne and Rec[eive]d by Him from Dr. John Dove, Sept. 16, 1856.
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• Wythe Titles Not Held by the Wolf Law Library
  ...per Titles: With Notes and References to the Whole.]]'' 2nd ed. London, In the Savoy: 1722-1737. ====Court of Chancery====
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• George Wythe Sweeney
  ...he'', by Julian P. Boyd and W. Edwin Hemphill (Williamsburg: The Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1955.</ref> ...to his will excluding his grandnephew point to the person he believed was the culprit.<ref>Ibid. 17.</ref>
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• Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay"}} ...d portrait [[George Wythe]] by [[Depictions of Wythe|J.B. Longacre]], from the ''William and Mary Quarterly,'' 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955), 512.]]
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• Commonwealth against George Wythe Swinney
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Commonwealth against George Wythe Swinney''}} ...nbrough's and Holmes' ''A Collection of Cases Decided by the General Court of Virginia'' (1815).]]
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• George Wythe (article)
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"George Wythe"}} ...k's essay on [[George Wythe]], from the ''John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College,'' 3, no. 4 (June 1912), 283-313.]]
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• Countrey Justice
  ...e: Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace as well in and out of their Sessions''}} |shorttitle=The Countrey Justice
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• Lydia Broadnax
  ...r Wythe's Death|The Two Parsons; Cupid's Sports; The Dream; and the Jewels of Virginia]]'' (Richmond, J.D.K Sleight, 1884), 417.</ref> ...e following three years.<ref>McKnight, "Lydia Broadnax," 18.</ref> In each of these records she is identified only as "Lydia." It is possible that she ad
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• Michael Brown
  ..., Brown died of arsenic poisoning one week before Wythe’s own death from the same poison in June 1806. ...ame among free African-Americans in Richmond, and provides little evidence of his origins.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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• George Wythe, America's First Law Professor
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:"George Wythe, America's First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall, and Clay"}} ...fessor1933.pdf|George Wythe, America's First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall, and Clay]]" (13MB PDF).]]
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• W. Edwin Hemphill
  ...Hemphill was a founding member of the [http://www.archivists.org/ Society of American Archivists] in 1936.<ref>Charles H. Lesser and Wylma Anne Wates, " ...icanArchivist1984.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Portrait of W. Edwin Hemphill from the ''American Archivist'' 47, no. 1 (Winter 1984), p. 100.]]
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• Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
  ...the Bar of Norfolk, Virginia, and the Citizens Generally, on the 29th Day of June, 1860''}} ...OfLittletonWallerTazewell1860.pdf|''Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell'']] (Norfolk, VA: J.D. Ghiselin, 1860).]]
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• To Mess. Purdie and Dixon, 1 August 1766
  ...is a letter to the editor, written by [[George Wythe]], which appeared in the ''Virginia Gazette'' on August 1, 1766. <ref>''Virginia Gazette'' (Purdie a ...against. Your readers cannot but know the bailment of Col. Chiswell to be the case alluded to.
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• Virginia Genealogies
  ...Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others, of Virginia and Maryland''}} ...iscourse Refuting Statements Made That George Wythe at One Time Led a Life of Dissipation]]," n.d., [http://vahistorical.org Virginia Historical Society,
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• George Wythe and Slavery
  ...n Chains," after Josiah Wedgwood, from Erasmus Darwin's ''[[Botanic Garden|The Botanic Garden]]'' (New-York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1798), p.54.]] ...ese beliefs also influenced many of his students to oppose the institution of slavery.
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