1I. Queries to John Mercer, 20 April 1759 (Washington Papers)
...the time of John Custis’s death in 1749 (Dunbar Parke died in 1734) the case still had not come to trial. Dunbar’s heirs renewed the suit in 1750. When the trial was finally held before the Virginia General Court in April 1754, it was dismissed. In July 1757 the Privy Council
2[March 1760] (Washington Papers)
The gross amounts filled in here are taken from the Virginia General Court decree of 12 April 1760 (
3[Diary entry: 28 March 1760] (Washington Papers)
The gross amounts filled in here are taken from the Virginia General Court decree of 12 April 1760 (
4To George Washington from James Mercer, 6 September 1771 (Washington Papers)
This probably relates to the renewal of the Dunbar suit in the Virginia General Court. To defend the Custis heirs in the case, GW had retained James Mercer and John Randolph to aid Edmund Pendleton. See
5[February 1774] (Washington Papers)
...and on land he had chosen for GW. Thomas’s brother Cuthbert Bullitt (d. 1791) was an attorney living in Prince William County. In 1788 Cuthbert Bullitt was elected by the General Assembly an additional judge of the Virginia General Court (
6[Diary entry: 14 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
...and on land he had chosen for GW. Thomas’s brother Cuthbert Bullitt (d. 1791) was an attorney living in Prince William County. In 1788 Cuthbert Bullitt was elected by the General Assembly an additional judge of the Virginia General Court (
7From George Washington to Thomas Everard, 17 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Everard of Williamsburg as clerk to the secretary of the Virginia general court issued the colony’s land patents. Between November 1772 and December 1774 GW paid Everard several fees for patenting lands on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers (
8From George Washington to Lund Washington, 10 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW’s letter to Thomas Everard, clerk of the secretary to the Virginia General Court, on this subject has not been found.
9Virginia General Court: Certificates of Escheated Property, 7 December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia General Court: Certificates of Escheated Property
10To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
As attorney general, Randolph had attended the session of the Virginia General Court terminating on the date of this letter. Two soldiers, found guilty of manslaughter, and a boy “of about twelve,” convicted of grand larceny, were immediately pardoned by the court. Although six men were condemned to death...