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General Biography

• Blackburn, Joyce. George Wythe of Williamsburg. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

• Brown, Imogene E. American Aristides: A Biography of George Wythe. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1981.

• Clarkin, William. Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wythe. Albany, New York: Alan Publications, 1970.

• Dill, Alonzo Thomas. George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty. Williamsburg, Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1979.

• Hemphill, William Edwin. "George Wythe the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1937.

• Kirtland, Robert Bevier. George Wythe: Lawyer, Revolutionary, Judge. New York: Garland, 1986.

• Loker, Aleck. George Wythe: Venerable Statesman, Jurist and Educator. Williamsburg, Va.: Solitude Press, 2007.

• Shewmake, Oscar L. The Honourable George Wythe: Teacher, Lawyer, Jurist, Statesman: An Address Delivered Before the Wythe Law Club of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Dec. 18, 1921. Richmond, Va., 1950.

• Allen, William. "Wythe (George)." In An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America from Its First Discovery to the Present Time, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies, and of the United States, 627-631. Cambridge, MA: William Hilliard, 1809.

• "Wythe, George." In Biographia Americana; or, A Historical and Critical Account of the Lives, Actions, and Writings of the Most Distinguished Persons in North America, From the First Settlement to the Present Time, edited by Benjamin Franklin French, 334-338. New York: D. Mallory, 1825.

• Call, Daniel. "Biographical Sketch of the Judges of the Court of Appeals." In Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, 2nd ed., 4:x-xv. Richmond, VA: Robert I. Smith, 1833.

• William R. Smith, "George Wythe," in Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, edited by John Sanderson, 2:161-184. Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1823. Reprinted in Sanderson's Biographies of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, edited by Robert T. Conrad, 633-644. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead, 1865; and An Outline of the Political and Social Life of George Washington, and Biographical Sketches of the Lives of the Fifty-six Signers of the Declaration of Independence, edited by in James Tyson, 2:196-212. Oakland, CA: Pacific Press, 1895.

• Balance, 10 May 1803

• "Wythe, George." In Encyclopædia Americana, edited by Francis Lieber, 13:287. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833.

• Munford, R. B., Jr. "An Englishman's Tribute to Chancellor Wythe." Sons of the Revolution in State of Virginia Quarterly Magazine 1, no. 2 (April 1922): 39.

• "Eulogium on the Late Chancellor Wythe, of Virginia; Pronounced by a Gentleman of the Bar Before a Respectable Audience in the Western Part of Virginia—July, 1806." Massachusetts Missionary Magazine, 5, no. 1 (June 1807): 10-15.

• Page, Rosewell. "George Wythe." In Genesis and Birth of the Federal Constitution, edited by J.A.C. Chandler, 375-386. New York: Macmillan, 1924.

• W. Edwin Hemphill, "George Wythe Courts the Muses: In Which, to the Astonishment of Everyone, That Silent, Selfless Pedant Is Found to Have Had a Sense of Humor"" William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 9, no. 3 (July 1952), 338-345.

• George Wythe: Venerable Statesman, Jurist and Educator

• Glimpses of Old College Life, January 1900

• Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. "George Wythe." In Great American Lawyers, edited by William Draper Lewis, 51-90. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John C Winston, 1907.

• "George Wythe: Letter from Hon. Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, Esq." Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion 5, no. 3 (July 1852): 162-167.

• Historic Manuscript Found in a Garret

• Warren, Charles. "Early Law Professorships." In History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, 1:169-172. New York: Lewis Publishing, 1908.

• Weems, M. L. "The Honest Lawyer, an Anecdote." Charleston Times (July 1, 1806): 3.

• Jefferson and the Virginia Constitution

• Jefferson's Constitution for Virginia

• Lemprière, John. "Wythe, George." In Lempriere's Universal Biography, edited by Eleazar Lord, 2:834. New York: R. Lockwood, 1825.

• Life of Patrick Henry

• Lewis, J. L., Jr. "Prize Biography: George Wythe." Literary Inquirer 3, no. 2 (30 July 1834): 13.

• Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson

• Malignity Exposed

• Minor, B. B. "Memoir of the Author." In Decisions of Cases In Virginia, by the High Court Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees By the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions, by George Wythe, edited by B. B. Minor, xi-xxxx. Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1852.

• "Memoirs of the Late George Wythe, Esquire." American Gleaner and Virginia Magazine (January 24, 1807): 1-3.

• "Wythe, George." In The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, Being the History of The United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, 3:308-309. New York: James T. White, 1893.

• National Intelligencer, 15 December 1806
• National Intelligencer, 26 November 1800
• National Intelligencer, 29 June 1804
• National Intelligencer, 3 December 1804
• Notes for the Biography of George Wythe

• Munford, William. "Oration, Pronounced at the Funeral of George Wythe." Richmond Enquirer (June 13, 1806): 3, and (June 17, 1806): 3.

• Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington, 67-69, 74-75. New York: D. Appleton, 1855.

• Respectfully Dedicated to the Legislature of Virginia
• Richmond Enquirer, 10 June 1806
• Richmond Enquirer, 20 June 1806
• Richmond Enquirer, 8 July 1806
• Richmond Enquirer, 9 September 1806

• Patteson, S. S. P. "The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, I.." Green Bag 5, no. 7 (July 1893): 311-312, 314-329.

• Anderson, Dice Robins. "The Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall." South Atlantic Quarterly 15, no. 4 (October 1916): 327-343.

• W.P.P. "A Venerable Old Tree." Richmond Times (October 28, 1894): 9.

• Virginia Argus, 10 June 1806
• Virginia Argus, 10 September 1806
• Virginia Argus, 17 June 1806
• Virginia Argus, 20 June 1806
• Virginia Argus, 25 June 1806
• Virginia Convention of 1776
• Virginia, June General Court, 1806
• Weekly Register, 3 July 1813

Wythe as Judge

• Holt, Wythe. "George Wythe: Early Modern Judge." Alabama Law Review 58, no. 5 (2007): 1009-1039.

Wythe as Teacher

• Hemphill, William Edwin. "George Wythe: America’s First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall and Clay." Masters thesis, Emory University, 1933.

• Hunter, Thomas. "The Teaching of George Wythe." In The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources, edited by Steve Sheppard, 1:138-168. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999.

Wythe's Death

• Boyd, Julian P. "The Murder of George Wythe." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 513-542.

• Munford, George Wythe. "Chancellor Wythe's Death." In The Two Parsons; Cupid's Sports; The Dream; and The Jewels of Virginia, 414-433. Richmond, Virginia: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884.