Dabney Carr
Dabney Carr (April 27, 1773 – January 8, 1837), the son of Dabney Carr and Thomas Jefferson's younger sister, Martha, received forty-five of Wythe's titles when Jefferson dispersed the collection. Carr served as commonwealth's attorney for Albemarle County from 1801 to 1811 and chancellor of Winchester and Clarksburg from 1812 to 1824.[1] He was elected to the court of appeals, Virginia's highest court, in 1824 and held this position until his death in 1837.[2]
Wythe Books Given to Carr by Thomas Jefferson
The list below was adapted from the Library of George Wythe in the Thomas Jefferson Libraries project on the website for Monticello.[3]
Page one of Jefferson's inventory of books received from George Wythe's estate, September, 1807. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to give to his nephew, Dabney Carr. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
| 3d. Chancery rep. |
| Kaim’s Pr. Eq. fol. |
| Treatise of Equity fol. |
| Swinburne on wills. fol. |
| P. W. rep. 3.v. fol. |
| Ca. temp. Talbot. fol |
| Bunbury’s reports fol. |
| Atkyns’s rep. 1st. & 3d. v. fol. |
| Vezey’s rep. 2.v. fol. |
| Gilbert’s reports. fol. |
| Ca. in Eq. abridged. 2.v. fol. |
| ———— |
| Jacob’s introdn to the Common, civil & canon laws. 8vo. |
| Law of Devises 8vo |
| Uses & trusts 8vo |
| Awards 8vo |
| Bills 8vo |
| Covenants 8vo |
| Obligations 8vo |
| Laws of US. 1st. 2d. 3d. vols 8vo. |
| Brown’s Entering clerk’s Vade mecum 8vo. |
| Danvers’ abr. 2d. & 3d v. fol. |
| Bacon’s abr’ 4. v. in 7. vol. fol. |
| Jacob’s L. D. fol. |
| Registrum brevium fol. |
| Modern entries 2d. v. |
| Rastell’s entr. fol. |
| Robinson’s entr. fol. |
| Winch’s entries. folio |
| Dalton’s sheriff. fol. |
| Hale’s P.C. 2. v. fol. |
| Hawkins’ P.C. fol. |
| Foster’s crown law. |
| Wingate’s Maxims fol. |
| Godbolt’s reports 4to. |
| Moore’s rep. fol. |
| Owen’s |
| Hobart’s |
| Sr. W. Jones’s |
| Vaughan’s |
| T. Raymond’s |
| Shower’s ca. in parl. |
| Ld. Raymond’s 2.v. fol. |
| Fortescue’s rep. |
| Strange’s rep. 1st. vol. |
References
- ↑ W. Hamilton Bryson, "Carr, Dabney," in American National Biography Online, 1999-. Article published February, 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00141.html. See also Dabney Carr in the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Bryson.
- ↑ "Library of George Wythe", Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013, http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/1.html. For the manuscript version, see "Inventory of the Books Received by Thomas Jefferson from the Estate of George Wythe, Circa September, 1806", Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed July 2, 2013, http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=1768.
