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CHAPTER XVI
THE BENCH AND BAR
EARLY ATTORNEYS-SUPERIOR COURT OF PORTSMOUTH-NORFOLK CITY COURTS-NORFOLK COUNTY COURT-RATES FOR TAVERN KEEPERS-JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FROM 1637 -SHERIFFS OF THE COUNTY-CLERKS OF THE NORFOLK COUNTY COURT-MINISTERS LICENSED TO PERFORM THE RITE OF MATRIMONY-THE COURTS OF NORFOLK-THE COURTS OF PORTSMOUTH.
EARLY ATTORNEYS.
The bench and bar of Norfolk County have always been a credit to the profession of law. In the colonial period James Nimmo, William Young, Walter Lyons, Thomas Clayborne, Thomas Nivison, Benjamin Crooker, Thomas Bourke, John Brickel, Miles Carey, Anthony Lawson and Thomas Emmer- son were among the practicing attorneys at the bar. William Robertson was the first at- torney for the Commonwealth after the Declaration of Independence, having qualified on the 19th day of December, 1776. Some of the distinguished members of the bar under the Commonwealth were: William Wirt, Lit- tleton Waller Tazewell John S. Millson, John Murdaugh, John A. Chandler, Richard Gate- wood, James Murdaugh, Tazewell Taylor, J. H. Langhorne, James G. Holliday, Jamies W. Hinton, I. H. Chandler, John Neely, John H. Gayle, Charles B. Duffield, James Holt, Rich- ard Walke.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF PORTSMOUTH.
At the Superior Court of law held at the Court House in Portsmouth on the 22nd day
of May, 1809, Hon. William Nelson, one of the judges of the general court, presided.
On the 23d day of October, 1809, Hon. James Semple, judge, presided.
On the 25th day of January, 1817, Hon. Griffin Stith, judge, presided.
On the 15th day of June, 1831. Hon. Rob- ert B. Taylor, judge of the Circuit Court, pre- sided.
On the Ist day of November, 1831. Hon. William Browne, judge, presided, having ex- changed circuits with Judge Taylor.
On June Ist, 1832, Hon. Abel P. Upsher, judge. presided, having exchanged circuits with Judge Taylor.
On the 14th of April, 1833, Judge Robert B. Taylor died ; and Gov. L. W. Tazewell ap- pointed Richard H. Baker of the county of Vansemond to fill the vacancy. Judge Baker went upon the bench on the end of June, 1834, and continued as circuit judge until about a year before his death, which occurred on No- vember 29, 1871, except when supplanted by United States military orders because of his refusal to take the iron-clad oath.
On March 1. 1864, Hon. Edward K. Snead, military appointee, presided.
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On March 1, 1866, Hon. Richard H. Baker resumed his seat as judge, having been re- appointed by the Governor.
On February 15. 1809, Hon. Edwin P. Pitts was appointed judge in place of Judge Baker, removed by the military edict of Maj .- Gen. George Steneman, U. S. Army.
On the 15th day of March, IS, I. Hon. George Blow, judge, presided in the circuit of Portsmouth.
On March 5, 1887, Hon. Chandler W. Hill, judge, presided.
On the 4th day of March, 1895, Hon. Robert R. Prentis, judge, presided, and con- tinues in office.
NORFOLK CITY COURTS.
An Act passed March 2, 1819, provided that. "All courts held in Norfolk Borough for the trial of civil causes, may be composed of the mayor, recorder and one alderman, the mayor and two aldermen, the recorder and two aldermen, or any three aldermen."
Acts 1850-51. page 31, provided that, "Hereafter the Corporation Court of Norfolk shall be held by the justices of said corpora- tion or any three or more of them, except where it is otherwise expressly provided."
This Act was amended January 20, 1866: "And also by a magistrate, who shall be called the Judge of the Court of the Corporation of the City of Norfolk." **
* "The said Judge shall be elected by the Seleet and Common Councils of the said city. in joint meeting assembled, and shall hold his office for the term of eight years." The only judge of the Corporation Court of Norfolk City, elected by the Councils of the city, was Thomas C. Tabb, elected May 1, IS66, for eight years,-resigned June 4. 1868, as of date May 1, 1868, resignation accepted: at a sub- sequent meeting. a resolution was adopted call- ing for a joint session for the purpose of elect- ing his successor, but it was never held. He was succeeded by O. M. Dorman, an appointee of Major-General Canby; he was made a
member of the Supreme Court in 1869 and was succeeded by B. B. Foster, military ap- pointee. This judge, B. B. Foster, was also judge of the Court of Hustings for Ports- mouth and register of deeds, holding the three offices at one and the same time by military edict. The new Constitution provided for each city or town in the State, containing a population of 5,000. "There shall be elected on the joint ballot of the two houses of the Gen- eral Assembly one city judge who shall hold a Corporation or Hustings Court of said city."
Hon. William H. Burroughs was the first judge elected under this Constitution and served until the January term, 1877. He was succeeded by Judge George P. Scarburg, who served until 1880. when he was succeeded by Judge David J. Godwin, who served until 1883. Judge D. Tucker Brooke succeeded him and served until 1894, when the present incumbent, Judge Allen R. Hanckel, was elected.
NORFOLK COUNTY COURT.
The presiding officers of the County Courts were first termed commissioners of the peace, afterward changed to justices of the peace, who held regular terms of court at designated points, sometimes private residences, at other times at houses for publie entertainment until the first Court House was built. The instruc- tions to Sir Thomas Wyatt, Governor of Vir- ginia. July 24, 1621. required the Governor and Council to appoint proper times for the administration of justice, and the Grand As- sembly of March 5. 1623-24, directed that courts should be held once every month in Charles City and Elizabeth City for deciding suits and controversies not exceeding in value 100 pounds of tobacco and for punishing petty offenses. The General Assembly. in June, 1642. enacted that there should be held Monthly Courts with the power to determine debts and differences under the sum of 1,000 pounds of tobacco and the beginning of the
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term for Lower Norfolk County was fixed for the 15th day of each month. The Grand As- sembly of March, 1642-43, changed the name from "Monthly Courts" to "County Courts," reduced the terms to six yearly and styled the officers "Commissioners of the County Courts," and ever since we have had the Nor- folk County Court. The terms were after- ward changed. back to monthly and the juris- diction has been changed from time to time.
The first court ever held in Lower Nor- folk County of which we have any record was held on the 15th day of May. 1637. and the last court held for Norfolk County by jus- tices of the peace was at the Court House in Portsmouth on Saturday. the 23rd day of April, 1870. The commissioners presiding at the first court were Capt. Adam Thorogood. Francis Mason. Capt. John Sibsey. afterward sheriff. Edward Windham, William Julian and Robert Carne. The justices presiding at the last court were F. W. Lemosy. W. B. Harris, W. J. Bishop and John W. McCloud, all reconstruction justices. During the long pericd in which magistrates were appointed, they were always selected for their intelligence, probity and high standing in the community and were generally leading citizens.
On the 16th of July, 1642, the first jury trial in a civil case took place. The panel was composed of Bartholomew Hoskins, Edward Hall. Thomas Cheely, Thomas Keeling. John Holbeck. Francis Land. Christopher Bur- roughs, Thomas Cannon, Simon Hancock, William Davis and Mathew Phillips. The case arose under the fence law. John Gookin's hogs got into Richard Foster's corn field and Foster sued for damages. The 12 good and true men rendered their verdict: "We there- fore, the jury, having fully examined the evi- dence given on both sides, find no cause where- of any damages should be allowed for the plaintiff's corn which was destroyed, the de- fendant having sufficiently proved that he hath kept a sufficient hog-keeper and sufficient hog- pen according to the Act in that case made and provided, and that the plaintiff had not
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fenced his plantation according to the Acts in that case made and provided. wherefore we give our verdict that the plaintiff shall pay all charges of the lower court and so the suit be . fully determined."
A court of Lower Norfolk County com- posed of four justices clandestinely held gave judgment for George Abbott against Col. Ed- ward Scarborough for 7,900 pounds of to- bacco. casks and costs. It was reversed by the Grand Assembly in March, 1661-62 ( Hen, Vol. 2, Page 158). and the justices of the court were compelled to pay Colonel Scarborough the full amount which they had awarded against him with all costs. What a whole- some lesson for unjust judges !
At the court held for Norfolk County on the 21st day of December. 1753, for laying the county levy. Justices Col. William Cra- ford. Capt. William Ivy, Capt. John Hutch- ings, Capt. George Veale, Capt. Josiah Smithi. William Bradly and William Portlock pre- sided and ordered that Joshua Corprew, sher- iff, collect from each tithable person 2216 pounds of tobacco and pay the creditors of the county, whose claims amounted to 56,- 992 pounds of tobacco. There were 2,533 titli- able persons in the county. Samuel Boush was the clerk of the court at this date and his salary was 1.200 pounds of tobacco. The sheriff's salary was 1,200 pounds and the King's attorney 1,000 pounds of tobacco. Among the items of expense at a subsequent term were 100 pounds of tobacco to be paid Richard Smith for one old wolf's head.
In 1686. 3,000 pounds of tobacco were paid out of the county levy by the sheriff as rewards for wolves' heads.
On the 21st of May, 1761. the court as- signed justices to take list of tithables as fol- lows: Lemuel Willoughby to take the list for the borongh of Norfolk on the east side of Church street beginning at his lane to the ex- tent .of the bounds of the borough. Mathew Godfrey, on the south side of Tanner's Creek as far as Willis Cares, on the north side of the creek to the extent of the bounds of the
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county. Max. Calvert in the borough of Nor- folk on the west side of Church street begin- ning on line west side of Willoughby's lane, to the extent of the bounds of the borough. James Webb from Ferry Point to Great Bridge. Joshua Corprew from Great Bridge to Edmund's Bridge and New Mill Creek. Richard Tacker. Jr .. from Edmund's Bridge to the upper inhabitants, including both roads. Thomas Veale in Portsmouth and from thence to New Mill Creek. John Tucker from Portsmouth to the Western Branch, includ- ing both sides thereof.
The court held on December 30. 1761, al- lowed William Young, King's attorney, Wil- son Newton, high sheriff. and Samuel Boush, clerk of the court, their yearly salary, 1,200 pounds of tobacco each. The total county ex- penses amounted to 54.994 pounds of tobacco and each tithable person was taxed 16% pounds to be collected by the sheriff and paid over to the creditors.
The court held November 10, 1769. "Or- dered for the future that it is to be an instruc- tion that they will not be allowed for commit- ting runaways, other than those that belong to persons out of this county or those that can- not tell their master's name."
On Monday, August 15, 1796, Robert Brough furnished the court with a seal for Norfolk County, agreeable to an order of the last court, together with an account of the ex- pense thereof amounting to $50. It was or- dered that he be authorized to draw on Willis Wilson for the same.
On January 19. 1749. the court ordered "That the Sheriff for the future do keep all persons without the Bar, except the contend- ing parties, the attorneys or such other per- sons as the Court shall think proper to ask in."
Before the Revolution the justice of the peace on assuming the duties of his office took and subscribed the following oaths :
I do swear that I do from my heart abhor. detest and abjure as impious and heretical that damnable doc- trine and position that Princes excommunicated or de- prived by the Pope or any authority of the see of Rome
may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever, and I do declare that no foreign Prince. person, Prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-emi- nence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual in this reaim.
I do declare that I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacraments of the Lord's Supper or in the elements of bread and wine at or after the conseeration thereof by any person whatsoever.
At the court held on the 20th day of Feb- ruary, 1752. a writ of adjournment was re- ceived from Governor Dinwiddie permitting the court to adjourn from the Court House in the borough of Norfolk to the house of Thomas Veale on account of the smallpox: but on Au- gust 20th the court adjourned back to the Court House.
On December 20, 1820, Stephen Lynch contracted with the county to build a road from Ballahac to the Dismal Swamp Canal for $500.
Notes of Thomas Jefferson written in 17SI: "The State is divided into counties. In every community are appointed magis- trates called Justices of the Peace, usually from eight to 30 or 40 in number, in pro- portion to the size of the county, of the most discrect and honest mhabitants. They are nominated by their fellows, but com- missioned by the Governor, and act without reward. These magistrates have jurisdiction, both criminal and civil. If the question be- fore them be a question of law only, they de- cide on it themselves; but if it be of fact. or of fact and law combined, it must be referred to a jury. In the latter case, of a combination of law and fact, it is usual for the jurors to decide the fact and refer the law arising on it to the decision of the judges. But this di- vision of the subject lies with their discretion only. And if the question relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias. the jury undertake to decide both law and fact. If they be mistaken, a decision against right, which is casual only, is less dangerous to the State, and less afflicting to the loser. than one which makes part of a regular and
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uniform systém. In truth, it is better to toss up cross and pile in a cause, than to refer it to a judge whose mind is warped by any mo- tive whatever, in that particular case. But the common sense of 12 honest men gives a better chance of just decision. than the hazard of cross and pile. These judges execute their process by the sheriff or coroner of the county. or by constables of their own appointment. If any free person commit an offense against the Commonwealth, if it be below the degree of felony he is bound by a justice to appear be- fore their court, to answer it on indictment or information. If it amount to felony, he is committed to jail. a court of three justices is called; if they on examination think him guilty, they send him to the jail of the Gen- eral Court, before which court he is tried first by a grand jury of 24, of whom 13 must con- cur in opinion; if they find him guilty, he is tried by a jury of 12 men of the county where the offense was committed, and by their ver- dict, which must be unanimous, he is ac- quitted or condemned without appeal. If the criminal be a slave the trial by the County Court is final." * * "In civil matters if the matters of dispute be of less value than four and one-sixth dollars, a single member may try it at any time and place within his county. "If it be of that or greater value, it is determinable before the County Court, which consists of four at the least of those justices, and assembles at the Court House of the county on a certain day in every month." *
* "Appeal. if matter be of fro sterling or concerns title to land, to Su- perior Court."
At a court held on the 8th day of July, 1793 .- "Information having been received from the Mayor and Aldermen of the Borough of Norfolk that a number of French families have arrived within Cape Henry (in a fleet from Hispaniola) in great distress and solici- tation being made to them by an officer of the French Republic for relief to them distressed people and they requesting the assistance of this court for that purpose, it is unanimously
agreed that they may land and be accommo- dated in the Marine Hospital."
In Will Book No. 2 in the County Court . there are a number of blank pages and this inscription : "These pages were left blank.for some wills which were proved in 1775 to be recorded in that year, but the glorious strug- gle with Great Britain for our liberty and property prevented their being recorded until after Mr. Hurt, the late deputy clerk, began to record the wills following, who left those blank pages for that purpose."
The Constitution of 1851 provided "That the Justices shall receive for their services in Court a per diem compensation to be ascer- tained by law and paid out of the County Treasury: and shall not receive any fee or emolument for other judicial service." It was afterward fixed at $3 per day while they were on the bench.
At a court for Norfolk County, held No- vember 19. 1770, it was ordered that the rates for liquors sold by tavern-keepers should be :
For every quart of Punch made with best double refined Loaf Sugar. 2 shillings.
Quart of Toddy, I shilling 6 pence.
Quart of Grog. I shilling 3 pence.
Punch made with Muscovado Sugar, per quart, S pence.
On September 20, 1813, the court fixed rates for tavern-keepers :
Punch per quart, 371/2 cents.
Toddy per quart (rum), 3154 cents.
Toddy per quart (apple brandy), 19 cents.
Madeira wine, per quart, $1.25.
Port wine, per quart, $1.25.
Other wine, per quart, $1.1212.
Breakfast. 371/2 cents.
Dinner. 50 cents. Supper, 371/2 cents.
Bed, per night 25 cents.
Corne, per gallon, 25 cents.
Oats. per gallon, 121/2 cents. -
Fodder, per bunch, 614 cents. Stablage, per day. 121/2 cents.
Stablage, per night. 1216 cents.
Pasturage, per day, 121/2 cents.
The old tavern, the well-sweep and bucket, the stage coaches and the old worm fence are
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things of the past; a few of the old Dutch- roof houses remain as mementoes of the days that are gone, but the wheelwright shop still -tands and the anvil of the blacksmith still rings at the cross-roads.
On the 17th of June, 1861, the court ap- propriated Sio,ooo for the Confederate sol- diers of the county, allowing $12 each.
On Thursday. 24th day of April, 1862, the court adjourned, L. H. Kingman presid- ing, after which came the interregnum, -mili- tary despotism,-and it did not reassemble un- til the 20th day of September, 1865. and in 1869 it was dissolved by military edict and all justices and officers were appointed by the military commander of District No. I.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
The following lists embrace most of the names of the justices of the peace, between the first and last courts, covering 233 years. The first period, in colonial times, to the division of the county; the second period covers the colo- nial period of Norfolk County to 1775; the third period embraces the Revolutionary War ; the fourth period to 1800; the fifth period to the evacuation by the Confederates in 1862; and the sixth period the interregnum and post bellum or reconstruction :
FIRST PERIOD (COLONIAL).
Capt. Thomas Willoughby 1637
Col. Francis Yardley 1651
John Hill
Thomas Browne
Richard Conquest
William Moseley
Thomas Goodrich
165.4
Thomas Bridge
Col John Sidney
1655
John Porter, Sr.
John Jorter. Jr.
Thomas Bridge
Thomas Daines
Robert Powis 1657
William Daines
Capt. Richard Foster 1658
Thomas Keeling
Capt. William Robinson 1675
Maj. Francis Sayer
Malachi Thurston
George Fouler
Anthony Lawson
Adam Keeling 1678
Henry Spratt
Capt. William Robinson 1686
Capt. George Newton
Thomas Butt
William Cornix
Thomas Cock 1687
William Burroughs
William Craford
Capt. John Hatton
Patrick White
Capt. Thomas Hodges 16S9
SECOND PERIOD (COLONIAL), AFTER
SEPARATION FROM
PRINCESS ANNE ..
James Wilson 1691
John Maholy
Richard Church
Edward Moseley
Thomas Walke
1693
Maj. John Nichols
1694
Thomas Scott
1695
Capt William Langley. M. D.
1703
Capt. Meelkon Squiby
Samuel Boush
Mathew Godfrey
John Holstead 1708
Jonas Holyday
1708
Henry Cutching
Capt. William Clayborne 1643
James Wilson, Jr.
1710
Lt .- Col. Thomas Lambert
William Craford
1734
. Mathew Phillips
John Hutchings
Edward Lloyd 1645
Thomas Mears
6+91
Nathaniel Tatem
Thomas Marsh
Cant. Willis Wilson
George Kemp
John Norwood
Maj. Lemuel Mason
1650
Charles Sweny
1746
William Portlock
Edward Bowman
James Ivy
John Marten
Col. Samuel Boush 1735
Maj. Samuel Boush
Capt. Joseph Smith
1742
Capt. Francis Emperor
- John Tucker
Henry Sewell
John Gookin 1642
Henry Woodhouse
Mathew Spivy
Samuel Smith Thomas Wright
Edward Selby
Richard Owens
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Robert Todd
1748
FOURTH PERIOD,-AFTER THE REVOLUTION TO 1800.
William Nash
George Veale
William Happer 1,85
Markum Herbert
William Newsome 1788
Joseph Stewart
Edward Archer
Joshua Corprew
John Nash
Josiah Butt 1789
Josiah Smith
Robert Bonsh
Durham Hall
James Grimes
Dr. Archibald Campbell
William Wilson. Jr.
Christopher Perkins
Robert Butt
William Bradley
1753
Solomon B. Talbot
Col. Robert Tucker
1754
Daniel Sanford
Capt. John Willoughby
1755
John Hendren
Robert Tueker, Jr.
1761
John Hudson
1790
William Atkinson
William King
1791
Lemuel Willoughby
Richard Powell
Joseph Hutchings
Willis Wilson
Max. Calvert
Jolin Kearns
John Portlock
1768
Wilson Butt
1793
Samuel Happer
Robert Brough
John Taylor
William White
Malachi Wilson
Samuel Davis
Goodrich Boush
1767
John Shields
David Porter
James Holt
Kader Talbot
1774
Powell Reins 1704
James Harper
James White
James Young
Mathew Godfrey
1775
James Webb
Samuel Smith
1799
George Veale
Jordan Merchant
John Portlock
Cornelius Calvert
James G. Martin
Bassett Moseley
James S. Mathews
Robert Taylor
Thomas W. Happer
John Briekel
Jesse Nicholson
John Wilson
Arthur Boush
1776
FIFTH
PERIOD,-TO CONFEDERATE EVACUATION, IN 1862.
William Smith
James Wilson
Wright Brown 1800
James Tatem
John Crowell Mathew Callis John Wilson, Jr.
Richard Blow ISOI
Malachi Wilson, Jr.
Stephen Wright
1803
Thomas Newton, Jr. Paul .Loyall
Thomas Lee 1804
Humphrey Roberts
John Arm-trong
1805
Thomas Nash, Jr. James Nicholson
James Callis
A. C. Jordan
William Booker David Sanford Charles Conner
Joseph Seguine James Williams Thomas Talbot
Samuel Veale
Robert Thompson 1807
Charles S. Boush James Taylor George Kelly
1782
Arthur Emmerson
John Butt. Jr. 1813
Willis Wilkins
Thomas Newton, Jr.
Solomon Hodges
Thomas Brent
THIRD OR REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
Richard Silvester
1796
James Brown
Goodrich Boush
John Hutchings
1777
Thomas Veale
Wright Bowers
Gresham Nimmo
John Willoughby
David Silvester
Mathew Phripp.
William Hail
James Webb
1757
Wilson Newton
1749
James Arehdeacon
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Tapley Webb
1814
1852
Beverly Bayton Mathew Manning
Thomas R. Ballentine Robert Dickson William H. Haynes Iverson N. Hall
Mordecai Cooke
Bernard Magining
1815
Jeve Newcombe
James Robin-
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David Fentress
Bassett Butt
John Johnston
Nehemiah Foreman
John Thompson
1818
John B. Haynes
Nathaniel G. Tatem
John Powell
Amzi W. Wilson
James Davis
1823
George T. Old
Samuel W. Happer
Thomas N. Mercer
Williamn Cocke
Martin J. Ballentine
1853
W. B. Manning
John Biddle
Samuel Bartee
John P. Leigh
Amzi W. C. Wilson
Holt Wilson
1821
1856
James Warden
Josiah Wilson
18.27
John Nash
Samuel Wiles
Alexander C. W. Young Thomas B. Hanbury
William Wright
1831
Maurice L. Tabb
Wilson B Scott
1833
Robert H. Miller
Samuel Watts
Richard P. Beaton
C. N. Nimmo
1834
Girard Henderson
Dr. Arthur R. Smith
William N. Ivy
William W. Davis D. T. Driver Edward Kearns
John G. Hatton
1836
William P. Jones John S. White Tapley Portlock Griffin S. Jennings
1857
Richard W. Baugh
James G. Ball
Jame, E. Wilson
Joseph Williams
John P. Young .
John D. Berryman
William Denby
Logan Hurst
William Collins
Thomas N. Mercer
Ezekiel Powell
John T. Pumpfrey James L. Northern
Overton Bernard
Beverly A. Armistead Josiah Joliff
Isaiah Cherry Samuel Browne, Jr.
1837 1841
Jerome M. Creekmur
James C. Choate
1842
SIXTH PERIOD,-INTERREGNUM, POST BELLUM, RECON-
1843
STRUCTION.
IS66
1844
1846 .
W. H. C. Lovitt John F. Stewart Lewis H. Hall George H. Dashiel William Old James G. Martin
Sampson Crocker George T. Wallace John S. Wise Stephen B. Tatem Isaiah Cherry Jr. Thomas B. Butt John P. Biddle Maurice B. Langhorne Samuel Etheridge William G. Webb Edward P. Cowper Frederick Wilson .
William M. Gibson
Agesilaus Foreman
Richard G. Bayton
Leaven Gayle
Richard W. Silvester
Lysander H. Kingman James F. Carr Dr. Virginius B. Bilisoly William H. Etheridge
Jolin Hodges
1830
William P. Ives John K. Cooke Enoch L. Herbert
Cornelius Nash
Dennis Simmons John Foreman James Flemming Archibald T. Foster
Arthur Butt
Nathan B. Webster James C. Williams John B. MeCloud George W. Grice James G. Hodges Charles L. Cocke George F. Outten C. C. Robinson
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