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• George Wythe
  ...ances, Wythe viewed his legal education with dissatisfaction, stating that Dewey "treated him with neglect, and confined him to the drudgeries of his office ...as signed by Peyton Randolph, Lawrence Burford, William Nimmo, and Stephen Dewey.<ref>Dill, ''George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty'', 10.</ref> Wythe's first jo
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• Genesis and Birth of the Federal Constitution
  ...ded William and Mary College and studied under his uncle-in-law, [[Stephen Dewey]] in Prince George County. He settled in Williamsburg, where he reached dis
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• Notes for the Biography of George Wythe
  ...ion, 1979), 3.</ref> he served as a legal apprentice to his uncle, Stephen Dewey, and was a junior partner of sorts to Zachary Lewis, not his pupil or appre
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• George Wythe the Colonial Briton
  |[[#Page 35|In His Uncle Stephen's Law Office]] 4. Stephen B. Weeks, <u>Southern Quakers and Slavery: a Study in Institutional History
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• Memoir of the Author
  ...ation, he was sent to study law with his uncle-in-law, [[Stephen Dewey|Mr. Dewey]], a lawyer of distinction in the County of Prince George. Here not much pa ...preceptor; and no doubt Mr. Wythe profited by his own experience under Mr. Dewey, when in after years he so zealously devoted himself to the guidance and in
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• Great American Lawyers
  ...er are engendered. And no doubt Wythe profited by his experience under Mr. Dewey far more than he supposed, and probably the very drudgery complained of was
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• Biographical Sketch of the Judges
  ...married Mr. ''Dewee'' a lawyer of distinction,<ref>Wythe's uncle, Stephen Dewey, was burgess for Prince George Co., 1752-55; he later moved to North Caroli
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• Virginia Convention of 1776
  ...f Prince George;<ref>Wythe studied in the law office of his uncle, Stephen Dewey, of Charles City Co., Virginia. Wythe's early career as a lawyer was spent
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• Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
  ...s, an eminent practitioner;<ref>Wythe studied law under his uncle, Stephen Dewey, of Prince George County, Virginia; he began the practice of law with Zacha
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• Teaching of George Wythe
  ..., at 9.</ref> One commentator has opined that posterity should maybe thank Dewey for his inattentions, for he may "have sharpened Wythe's appetite for learn ...Fauquier, and he also spent much time practicing the violin.<ref>Frank L. Dewey, ''Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer'' (1986), 9-17; Dumas Malone, ''Jefferson, the
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• Wythe's Early Life
  ...years old. <ref>Hemphill, ''George Wythe the Colonial Briton'', 37.</ref> Dewey was the king's Attorney for the County of Charles City, well-respected in h ...red typical training under the legal apprenticeship system, Wythe believed Dewey considered him more of a servant than an apprentice and claimed he learned
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• George Wythe (article)
  ...rrink has "Richard Duvall" for [[William DuVal]], "Mr. Drewry" for Stephen Dewey, and "Mr. Mumford" for [[William Munford]]. ...''], who was a distinguished lawyer of Prince George county.<ref>Stephen ''Dewey'' of Petersburg, Virginia, who was married to Wythe's aunt, Elizabeth Walke
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• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
  ...d William and Mary College. He studied law under his uncle-in-law, Stephen Dewey, in Prince George county; settled in Williamsburg, and attained distinction
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• George Wythe, America's First Law Professor
  ...ears, after the manner of the time, in the law office of an uncle, Stephen Dewey, of Prince George County, near Petersburg. This period was probably signifi ...he was sent [perhaps about 1743] to study law with his uncle-in-law, Mr. Dewey, a lawyer of distinction in the
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• Ancestry of George Wythe, LL.D.
  George Wythe's aunt, Elizabeth Walker, married Stephen Dewey, attorney in Prince George County and, for a time, Wythe's law teacher. Wyt
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• Discourse Refuting Statements
  ...of Wythe in Wythe's Reports (1852) says that he studied law under Stephen Dewey and this statement has been followed by Doctor Lyon G. Tyler, Vol. 1, Great
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• Wythe the Lawyer
  ...mdash; in Prince George County.<ref>Kirtland, 40; see also Dewey, 3.</ref> Dewey was a justice of the peace and served as member of the House of Burgesses.< ...d his license was signed by Peyton Randolph, St. Lawrence Burford, Stephen Dewey, and William Nimmo.<ref>Hemphill, 42 (citing entry of May 21, 1747, Order B
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