George Wythe Bibliography

Full-length Biographies

• 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.

Biographical Articles

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Douglas, Davison M. "The Man Behind the 'Wythe.'" (1993). William & Mary Lawyer (1993):

• "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.

• "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.

• Grigsby, Hugh Blair. The Virginia Convention of 1776. Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1855, 119-130.

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

• Hemphill, W. Edwin. "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.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Munford, William. "Oration, Pronounced at the Funeral of George Wythe." Richmond Enquirer, June 13, 1806 and June 17, 1806. Reprinted in the Virginia Argus, June 17, 1806.

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

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

• Taylor, Lyon G. and Charles Washington Coleman. "Glimpses of Old College Life." William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine 8, no. 3 (January 1900), 153-160

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• "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.

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

• "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.

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

• Berexa, Daniel P. "The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe." Tennessee Bar Journal (January 2011): 22-29.

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

• Chadwick, Bruce. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing that Shocked a New Nation. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

• Chadwick, Bruce. "The Mysterious Death of Judge George Wythe". Historynet.com (December, 2008).

• "Full of years and full of honour." Richmond Enquirer, June 10, 1806.

• Hemphill, W. Edwin. "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay." The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 543-574.

• 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.

• Theobald, Mary Miley. "Murder by Namesake: The Poisoning of the Eminent George Wythe." 35 Colonial Williamsburg (Winter 2013): 24-30.

• "We this day perform the painful task of announcing the death of the Venerable George Wythe...." Virginia Argus, June 10, 1806.

Wythe's Library

• Brown, Bennie. "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond." unpublished manuscript, May, 2012. Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.

• Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975).

• Goodwin, Mary R. M. The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings. Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958.

• LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on May 1, 2014.

• Tay, Endrina and Jeremy Dibbell. "Tales from the Vault: "Reconstructing a Lost Library: George Wythe's 'legacie' to Thomas Jefferson." Common-Place 10, no. 2, (January 2010).

• Tesar, Linda K. "Forensic Bibliography: Reconstructing the Library of George Wythe." Law Library Journal 105 (2013): 57-77.