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FITZHUGH, WM .: books, 142; education of sons, 142; granddaughter, 141: lawyer, 159, 179; opinion on English Statutes, 159; sketches of, 179, 245.
FITZHUGH, HENRY: brother of Barradall's wife, 142; books, 142. FRAUD: action for in sale of slave, B45: patent affected by, B166.
FREDERICKSBURG: early description, 118; tobacco warehouses, 118.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: acts to be approved, 61; acts made public, 166, 190; appeals, 64; burgesses, 61, 74; capitols, 123, 124; chosen how, 74; church place of first session, 78; church regulated by, 168; composition of, 61, 64; council part of, 61, 62; court's power over, 63; court, sat as, 13, 63; crimes punished, 64: Cromwell's time, 69; dissolution, 129: Dunmore and, 129; English forms, 62: English law, 159; first assemblage, 60; governor's part, 61: jurisdiction, 61, 62, 63; members, 74; paternalistic laws, 163; penalties imposed,
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64; publication of acts, 166, 190; revolutionary movements, 129; revisals of acts, 166; sessions, 74; subjects of legislation, 164; trials before, 64; veto power of governor, 62.
GENERAL COURT: appeals, 177; arguments, 218; chief tribunal, 208; common law, 217; composition, 208; council became, 71; criminal jurisdiction, 208, 217; divorce, 168; English law, 217; equity jurisdiction, 217; forms for procedure, 208, 214; juries, 217; jurisdiction, 208, 217; lawyers, 176; name changed, 208; number, 209; opinions, 218; penalties, 217; place of session, 209; pleadings, 215; proceedings, 208, 214; Quarter, 209, 214; records, 208, 209; sessions, 208, 209; time of sitting, 215; sketches of mem- bers, 210; terms, 209.
GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY: death, 25; expedition, 24; Elizabeth's message, 24; Sir Walter Raleigh's brother, 24.
GOSNOLD, BARTHOLOMEW: vessel commanded by, 26; wisdom, 26. GOVERNMENT: charters, 28, 58; council, 58; Cromwell, under, 67, 69; governors, 61, 62, 68, 69, 70; general assembly authorized, 60; habeas corpus, 102, 162; London company, 64; representative government, 62, 68; taxation, 58.
GOVERNOR: appointment, 68, 69; appointing power, 200; charter power, 59; commonwealth time, 213; councilors and, 212, 213; council, head of, 61, 71; counties named after, 70; Cromwell, under, 69, 213; deputy, 70; judicial functions, 208, 209; veto power, 62.
GRAHAM, REV. J. R .: loyalty of clergy, 106; Presbyterianism, 106 GREEN, WM .: books, 6; manuscript, 6, 7; notes, 5, 10, 17, 19; sale, 7. GRENVILLE, SIR RICHARD: expedition, 25.
GRYMES, JOHN: sketch, 212.
HABEAS CORPUS: formal adoption in Virginia, 162; right to domicile in Virginia, 102; Spotswood brings the writ, 102, 162.
HARRISON, NATHANIEL: sketch, 211.
HARVARD COLLEGE: manuscript, 7.
HENRY, WM. WIRT: defence of Smith, 27; eulogy of Smith, 27; Pocohontas' story, 26.
HEIRS: ancestor's debt, liability for, B192, 229; words of purchase, R111; words of limitation, B85.
HITE, JOIST: dead soldier, 41; home, 41; missionaries visit, 37; name, 38; sketch, 38; Washington visits, 39.
HOLLOWAY, JOHN: character 181, 182; lawyer, 179; offices, 182; opinion by, B29; Randolph's sketch, 180.
HOPKINS, WM .: death, 182; lawyer, 180; manuscript, 1; Randolph's sketch, 182; reports 1, 12, 184.
HOUSES: description, 52; furniture, 52; libraries, 52; material, 52; on the rivers, 34; rooms in, 52; Williamsburg, in, 121.
HUDSON, HENRY: expedition, 24.
HUNDREDS: divisions so called, 72.
HUSTINGS COURT: jurisdiction, 219; Norfolk, 220; Williamsburg, 219.
INDIANS: preachers to, 58, 76.
INDICTMENT: assault for, B39; felony, for, B90, 92; sufficiency, R30. INFANTS: deeds, R77; savings of statute, R10; wills, R33, 77; plea, R42; seating of land by, B174.
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INTEREST: on legacy, R104; payment released by circumstances, B29; running and stated accounts, B7, B9, B10, B17, B29; usury, B201. IRON WORKS: laws regulating, 120; methods crude, 120; ore beds, 120; Spotswood's enterprise, 36; unsuccessful, 55, 120.
ISSUE: dying without, R86; pleadings, in, R14, 42, 77, 54, 56, B117; word of purchase or limitation, B85.
JACKSON, STONEWALL: type of Scotch-Irish, 85.
JAMES RIVER: chart, 31; explorations, 28; Indian names, 28; settle- ments, 34.
JAMES, KING: charters by, 28, 58; death of, 67; description, 57; despotic tendencies, 67; instructions drawn by, 28.
JAMESTOWN: abandonment, 119; burning of, 29; church at, 30, 77; city by law, 114; date of settlement, 29; General Assembly, first at, 29; location bad, 29; restoration, 30; removal of capitol, 92; site selected, 29; settlement at, 29; story of, 29; statue of Smith, 30; State House, 30; Tyler's story of, 29; village always, 117; Wise's eulogy, 29.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS: ancestry, 45, 207; capitol described by, 128; cases reported by, 1, 9; children, 187; dances with Belinda, 131; extracts from MSS. by, 9; father-in-law, 187; law student, 131; marriage, 187; MSS. used by, 8; MSS., account of, 8; newspapers, views of, 147; reports by, 1, 9.
JOINT TENANTS: estates to, R30; survivorship, B140.
JONES, GABRIEL: aids Washington's election, 132; character, 189; education, 139; lawyer, the, 139; sketch of, 188.
JONES, REV. HUGH': capitol described, 124; conditions described, 47; palace described, 133; people described, 38; sketch of, 47.
JUDGMENT: arrest of, B34; confession of, B33.
JURIES: charter provision, 58; county courts, in, 197, 199; General Court, in, 217; grand juries, 200; selection, 199; trials by, 197, 199. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE: appeals from, 197; chosen, how, 195; commanders compared with, 73; county courts, in, 195, 205; elec- tion of, 196; first known as such, 73; monthly courts held by, 195.
LAND, THE: birds of, 23; debts, liable for, B105; descent, 58; diffi- culties in reaching, 23; discovery, 23; early voyages to, 24; Florida settlements on, 24; more or less sale, B123; northern voyages to, 25; rivers in, 33; seating, effect of, B45; Shenandoah Valley, 34; southern track, 24; speculations in, +1; Southwest Virginia, 36; superstitions about, 23; trees as marking boundaries, B10.
LAW: administration of, 157; books used by lawyers, 167; charters under, 158; church, acts concerning, 167; community of goods, 58; courts, the, 63, 72, 159, 71, 197, 219, 15, 125; common law in the colony, 162; common law and equity, 159; crimes, 156; descents, 163; early administration, 60; entails. 163: English model, 159, 217; English, bound by, 159, 217: Gates, under, 155: habeas corpus writ, 162; improvement in, 158; iron making regulated by, 120; lawyers regulated by, 171; marriages, of. los: money regulated by, 163; paternalistic character, 163; pleadings at, 177; prices fixed by, 164; revisals of, 166; severity of, 156, 157; study of, 139; tyrannical, 60.
LAWYERS: books used by, 165, 178, 189; county courts, in, 176, 201; character of, 170, 179; compensation of, fixed, 172: eminent lawyers, 179, 187; fees fixed by law, 56, 172; fees taxed costs, B45; forbidden to practice, 172; General Court, in, 176; licenses of, 171; list of, 186; mercenary, 172; oaths required, 172, 176, 177; reasons for regulating,
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171, 173; regulated by law, 171; reports used, 189; legislated about, 171; sketches of, 179, 187.
LEASE: assignment, R73.
LEDERER, JOHN: sketch of, 36; Shenandoah Valley, in, 36.
LEE, ROBERT E .: ancestry, 45, 211; type of older stock, 85.
LEE, THOMAS: sketch of, 211.
LEGACY: conditional, R103, 106; interest on, R104; legatee preferred to remainderman, R104.
LEGISLATURE: (see General Assembly) charter powers, 60; first in America, 29, 60; Jamestown, at, 29; seats denied members, 34. LEWIS, JOHN: sketch of 210.
LIGHTFOOT, PHILIP: sketch, 211.
LODGE, HENRY CABOT: attacks on clergy, 106; lawyers, opinions of, 179; writings of, 107.
LONDON COMPANY: appeals to, 64; books and papers preserved, 66; colony established by, 58; free government by, 64; history of, 65; passing of, 65.
LUDWELL, PHILIP: abridgement of laws by, 165; ancestry, 210; councilor, 210; sketch of, 210.
MANUSCRIPTS: account of, 1; age, 17, 19; authority, 5; Barradall's, 2, 13; black letter, 20; cases, 1, 4, 12, 13; complete, which, 8; Congressional Library copy, 13-20; conditions, 2, 17, 19; copies, 2, 6; Green's copy, 7, 17; Harvard copy, 7, 19; handwriting, 2, 11, 15, 20; history of, 5, 6, 8; Historical Society copy, 14, 17; Hopkins', 1, 12; identity, 6, 10, 11, 20; index to, 11, 14; ink, 20; Jefferson's use of, 8; Jefferson's narrative about, 8, 11; Law Library copy, 5; loss of pages, 17, 18, 21; Myers' copy, 10; notes to, 5, 7, 10, 17, 19; obliteration, 2; origin, 5; originals, search for, 8, 10, 11, 14; ob- scurities in, 2; paging of, 7, 12, 18; Randolph's, 2, 13; Robinson's copy, 2, 5, 7, 12; tests of, 10, 11, 14, 20; Virginia Historical Society copy, 14, 17; Virginia State Law Library copy, 2, 5, 7, 12.
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MARRIAGES: annulled when, 168; confusion resulting from remarriages, 238; divorce, 168; estates, R99; frequency of, 226; laws regulating, 168; property rights, 238, R110, B107 short intervals between, 238; suits caused by, 238; wife sister invalid, B18, B20; void, when, R55.
MARRIED WOMEN: deed, R51, R111, B93; estate, R99; debts, lia- bility for, R99, R100; husband's property rights, R110, B107; savings to statute of limitations, R52; separate estate, B294; trust estates, R110.
MARSHALL, JOHN: ancestry, 45, 227; church affiliations, 111; opinion of newspapers, 147; student of law, 153.
MARYLAND: carved from Virginia, 31.
MARY, QUEEN: contribution to college, 150; Elizabeth, the enemy, 57; James, son of, 57.
MASON, GEORGE: ancestry, 45; time of, 9.
MASSACHUSETTS: Smith's voyages to, 27, 28; praise of, by Smith, 27. MEADE, RT. REV. WM .: builder of church, 112; clergy's loyalty, 107; persecutions, on, 103.
MERCHANDISE: country stores, 115, 116; importations, 53.
MIDDLE PLANTATION: see Williamsburg.
MONEY: coinage, 58; coins used, 55; differences in values, 55; foreign. 55; prices affected by, 55; regulated by law, 163; tobacco used as, 55.
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MORAVIAN MISSIONARIES: account of country by, 38; Episcopal minister, account of, 39; Hite, visits to, 38; Presbyterians and, 38; Shenandoah Valley, in, 37; Scotch-Irish, and, 38; Thompson, Rev. John, and, 39; Waddell's note about, 38; Winchester visited by, 38.
MYERS, H. H. B .: note of, as to MS., 11.
NEEDLERS, BENJ .: sketch, 186.
NEWPORT, CHRISTOPHER: explores the river James, 28; fleet of, 26. NEWSPAPERS: absence of, 50; advertisements, 145, 148; Berkeley on printing, 137; colonies, in the, 145; contents of, 145; description of, 145, 147; first in Virginia, 145; Jefferson's opinion of, 147; printing of, 145; Marshall's opinion, 147; publishers of, 146; truth- fulness of, 147; Virginia Gazette, 146, 147.
NICHOLAS, PHILIP CARY: copy of MS. by, 3.
NICHOLSON, GOV. FRANCIS: advowson controversy, 93; Blair's controversy with, 151; character, 100; love affair, 99; removal, 100; sketch, 99; William and Mary College and, 99; Williamsburg's streets named for, 124.
NORFOLK: advantages, 117; chief city, 117; Hustings court, 220; population, 117; revolution, before, 118.
NORTH CAROLINA: carved from Virginia, 31.
OPINIONS: by Barradall, B31; Chesshyre, B9, 16; Dee, B10; Hinch- man, B5; Holloway, B29; Jones, B1; Mead, B21; Northey, B2, 4; Paul, B18; Pigot, B17; Powys, B7; Raymond, B5, 9, 26; Reeves, 10, 16; Randolph, B29; Strahan, B20; Stanyan, B22; Thomson, B29; Thomson, Sir Wm., B10, 22; Yorke, B25.
OYER AND TERMINER COURT: composition, 221, 223, 224; claim of the councilors, 222; disputes about, 222; jurisdiction, 223; pirates tried in, 223, 224; terms of, 222, 223.
PAGE, MATHEW: sketch, 211.
PENALTIES: county court by, 200; general court by, 64; general assembly by, 63; life or limb, 200; Oyer and Terminer court, 221; pirates, on, 222, 223; rape, for, 200; slaves, imposed on, 200.
PENDLETON, EDMUND: distinction of, 187; license to practice law, 187.
PEOPLE, THE: cavaliers, 45, 46; convicts among, 44; church attend. ance, 79; early deaths, 226; early marriages, 226; education, 49- 50, 137; first settlers, 43; Fithian's opinion, 87; families, 45, Germans, 36; Hugenots, 45; indented servants, 44; Jones, Rev; Hugh, describes, 47, 135; land owners, 46, 50; loyalty of, 68; mar- riages, 226, 238; maidens imported, 44; newspapers, 50, 145; occupations, 54, 55; planters, 49; poor gentry, 43; religions, 89; Scotch-Irish, 38, 83; slaves, 44; small landowners, 46; Washington's opinion of some Valley settlers, 40.
PERSONAL ESTATE: primary fund for debts, RS2, B105; exhausted before slaves sold, RS2; life estate in, R109.
PETERSBURG: early description, 118; tobacco warehouse, 118. PIZARRO, JOSE ALFONSO: expedition, 24.
PLANTERS: amusements, 49, 51, 53: beds, 52; clothing, 51, 53; church attendance, 79; country life, 117; city question, 113: dress of men and women, 53; education, 50; family, relations, 51; furniture, 52; home life, 51; hospitality, 51; horses, 50; houses, 52; libraries, 52; life among, 49; musical instruments, 53; patriotism, 51; por- traits, 52: purchases by, 119; religion, 50, 51; shippers, 119; social life, 51; sports, 51; wine drinkers, 51.
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PLEADINGS: abatement, R42; assumpsit, R14; demurrer, R77; former judgment, B117; issues, R54; next friend, B256; nil debet, B64; non assumpsit, 77; pleas, R56; plene administravit, B155. POCAHONTAS: Henry's defence, 26; rescue of Smith, 26.
PONCE DE LEON, JUAN: expedition, 24; Florida settlement, 24; St. Augustine, 24.
PORTEUS, ROBERT: sketch, 211.
POWHATAN: description, 33; river so named, 28.
PRESENTMENT: obstructing the King's highway, B19.
QUAKERS: persecution, 101, 103; Spotswood's course, 101.
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER: expeditions, 25; Roanoke settlement, 25; Virginia named by, 25.
RANDOLPH, EDMUND I .: attorney-general, 188; death, 188; distinction, 188.
RANDOLPH, GEORGE: proposed publication by, of Barradall's reports, 5.
RANDOLPH, JOHN: attorney-general, 8, 188; burial of, 188; death 188; MS. owned by, 8, 11; parentage, 188; revolution, his course towards, 188.
RANDOLPH, PEYTON: death, 188; lawyer, 188; sketch of, 188; time of, 9.
RANDOLPH, SIR JOHN: ancestry, 226, 229; birth, 2, 92, 226; character, 231; cases reported by, 1; children, 228; death, 2, 229; debater, 237; education, 228, 231; epitaph, 233; funeral, 229; knighted, 228, 229; lawyer, 8, 178, 179, 226, 277; marriage, 228; offices, 124, 228; opinion by, B29; reports, 1, 236, R1 to R114; pew, 93; sketches by, 180; sketch of, 226; tablet to, 233; vestryman, 93. RANDOLPH, WILLIAM: ancestry, 227; character, 227; distinguished posterity, 227; marriage, 227; offices held by, 227; sons and daugh- ters of, 27; Turkey Island, 227; wealth, 227.
REAL ESTATE: personal first liable for debts, R83.
RECORD: purchase affected by, B129.
RELIGION: clergymen, '82, 107; compulsory, 50; Fithian's account, 80; forms required, 58, 76; denominations, 89; Indians, 58; loyalty of clergy, 107: morality of clergy, 82, 108; persecutions, 84, 85, 101, 103; Presbyterians, 83; standards of, 110; Whitfield's preaching, 80.
REMAINDER: construed, B40; increase of slaves, in, B29: legatee preferred to, R104; in personal property subject to a life estate, B29, B56.
REPORTERS: arguments, 218; cases, 12; environment, 21; Jefferson's account, 8; MSS., 2; names, 1, 226; sketches, 266; Edward Barra- dall, sketch of, 243; Sir John Randolph, sketch of, 226.
REPORTS: arguments, 236-242; Barradall's, 1-5, B1-B383; English form, 276; Hopkins', 1; Jefferson's account, 8, 11; plan of, 4, 236; reasons for publishing, 250; Randolph's, 1, R1-R114; samples of cases reported, 232; style, 236; subjects, 237; synopses, 4; writing, 249. RIVERS: commerce on, 33; Chickahaminia, 32; Elk, 32; highways, 33; James, 32, 34; Ohio, 84; Pamaunkee, 32: Potowmeke, 32; Powhatan, 28; Payankatanke, 32; Rappahannock, 34; Sassafras, 32; Sasqusahanough, 32; settlements on, 33; Shenandoah, 38; Shipping on, 33; Toppahanock, 32; vessels on, 33; voyages of Smith, 32, 33; wharves, 33; York, 34.
ROANOKE SETTLEMENT: abandonment, 25; Dare, Virginia, 25; romance of, 25; settlement, 25.
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ROBINSON, CONWAY: story of his MS., 2, 5, 7, 12; reports, 5. ROBINSON, WILLIAM: sketch, 212.
SCOTCH-IRISH: Augusta Co., 38, 46; character, 42; Moravian mis- sionaries and, 38; settlements by, 38, 86, 87; Shenandoah Valley and, 38; southwest and, 42; Stonewall Jackson, 85.
SCOTT, W. W .: copies by, 2; notes of, 4.
SETTLEMENT: causes of, 28; cities, 33; date, 28; growth, 34; limits, 31; maps, 34; progress, 33, 34; rivers, 33, 35; site of Jamestown, 29. SHENANDOAH CO .: named, 70.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY: Byrd's proposal to cross mountains, 36; earliest settlers, 36; early grave in, 36; Scotch-Irish, 38; diary, 34; early visitors to, 37; Fithian's visit, 118; Germans, 36; Lederer, claims of, 36; Moravian missionaries, 37; Presbyterians, 86; settle- ment, 36; Spotswood enters, 36; Washington in, 37.
SHERIFF: action on bond of deputy, B87, B157; escape, action for, B64, 80, B64; judgment and attachment against, B80; action against, for discharge, R78.
SHIRES: divisions called, 72.
SLAVES: barbers, 120; duty on sale of, B38; execution on increase, R39; increase of devise, R35; detinue for, B71; executor respon- sible for increase, R81; increase of, 45; penalties imposed on, 200; real estate, when held as, R39, 82, B372, 289; sales under execu- tion, R61, 62; successive estates in, R61; other personalty first applied to debts, R82; mechanics, 119; introduced first, 44; suits about, 239.
SMITH, JOHN: admiral of New England, 27; credibility, 26; defence, 27; descriptions by, 33; eulogy, 27; explorations, 32, 33; founder, 27; maps of, 28, 31, 33; Massachusetts, in, 27, 28; mountains, 31; New England voyages, 27, 28; Pocohontas and, 26, 27; rivers, on, 31, 32; statue of, 30; voyages, 31, 32; writings, 26.
SPOTSWOOD, ALEXANDER: age, 102; Blair and, 103; Byrd and, 103; crosses the mountains, 35, 103; college, 153; iron works, 36; governor, 102; Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, 35; marries, 102; palace for, 102, 134; Quakers and, 101; soldier, 102; widow re- marries, 39.
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS: actions, for, B372; adverse possession, 51, B272; bill of exchange, B51, 80; ejectment, R10: entry, R52, 64; coverture and infancy, 10, 54; legacies, R63; state claims, B232. STAUNTON: "Augusti Courthouse" 38; early account of, 119; roads, 3S. SUBSTITUTION: on payment of an execution, R81.
TAYLOE, JOHN: sketch, 211.
THOMAS, R. S .: clergy's loyalty, as to, 106; clergy's morality, 108; oldest church, 78.
THOMPSON, REV. JOHN: marriage, 39; Moravian missionaries' account, 39.
TOBACCO: currency, used as, 55; planting regulated, 94; salaries paid in, 39; staple in trade, 55; trade in, 33; warehouses for, 1IS. TRADE: agriculture chief pursuit, 55; boat building, 55; exports, 33; imports, 34; iron making, 55; objects of, 33; rivers used, 33; to- bacco, 33, 55; vessels, 33; wheat exported, 54; wharves, 33. TRESPASS: civil action, though a felony, R1; property in declaration, RI; title to land involved in, BENT ; slave taken away, B331. TROVER: bar to. R21; judgment, 22.
TRUSTS: husband's interest in wife's estate, RI10; will by. R.15.
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VERDICT: special, R36; ejectment, R55.
VESPUVIUS, AMERICUS: voyage of, 24.
VIRGINIA: boundaries, 31; causes of settlement, 28; charters, 28, 30, 31; cities, 33, 113; education, 137; libraries, 140; limits, 31; Maryland taken from, 31; named, 25; North Carolina and, 31; rivers of, 32; settlement, 28, 29; Shenandoah Valley, 34; southwest, 41; trade and commerce, 33; Smith the founder, 27.
WADDEL, REV. JAMES: blind preacher, 110; character, 110; grave of, 110; hot coffee, and, 110.
WAREHOUSEMEN: liability of, R70; servants, for, R71; statute as to "Rolling Houses," R70.
WARRANTY: effect of, R13; sale of slave, in, B45.
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WASHINGTON, GEORGE: education, 138; Fairfax and, 39; Joist Hite and, 40; marriage, 53; opinion of people, 40; South Branch, visit to, 40; surveys by, 39, 40; Williamsburg, at, 131, 132; Win- chester, at, 39.
WAYLES, JOHN; daughter marries Jefferson, 187; lawyer, 187; sketch of, 187.
WHATELY, REV. SOLOMON: controversy as to incumbency of Bruton Church, 93.
WHITE, JOHN: disaster to his settlement, 25; grandfather of Virginia Dare, 25; governor of Roanoke, 25.
WHITFIELD, REV. GEO .: preaches at Williamsburg, 80.
WILLIAMSBURG: act to establish, 121; Blair and, 89; Bruton Church, 91; capitol, 123; capitol building, 123, 124; churches at, 91, 104, 121; city by brevet, 121; courts held at, 125; early description, 118; fires at, 121; gaiety, 121; houses, 121; Hustings Court, 219; layed off, 123; Middle Plantation, 91; palace, 133; people described, 135; population, 121; Raleigh tavern, 129; removal of capitol attempted, 127; removal, 130; seat of government, 92; streets, 121, 124; trade, 121; Washington at, 131; Whitfield preaches, SS. WILLS: after born children, R102, B42, R35; after purchased land, R33; contingent devise, R39; deed compared with, R95; entail created by, R40; estate upon condition, R67; established at law, must be, B60; executors interest under, R44; gift to unborn child, R36; heirs, use of word, R40; issue, effect of use of word, R40, 62, B85; lands devised to be sold, R44; law governing the execution of, B1; legacies affected by statute of limitations, R63; partial intestacy, R44; probate of, B5; residuary clause in, B68; rules of construc- tion, R62, RS5, R94, R96; trusts established by, R45.
WINCHESTER: early description, 118; Fithian's visit, 86; Frederick- town, 38; Moravian missionaries visit, 37; revolutionary beginnings, 87; Washington visits, 38.
WITNESS: competency affected by interest, B51.
WRIT OF ENQUIRY: when new writ not awarded, R7S.
WYTH, GEO .: law professor, 153; Marshall studies under, 153.
YEARDLEY, SIR GEORGE: character of, as governor, 68. YEO, GEORGE: books of, 143.
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MANUSCRIPT PAGING OF CASES RE- PORTED BY SIR JOHN RANDOLPH
NOTE .- The paging here given is that of the original manuscript (shown in brackets in the text).
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Abbot v. Abbot
132
Lawson v. Connor 177
Allen v. Stafford
158
Legan & Vanse v. Latany 149
Armistead v. Swiney
204
Lightfoot v. Lightfoot 192
Barrett v. Gibson 179
Marks v. Dunn 154
Barryman, etc., v. Cooper, etc., 168
Marston v. Parish 145
Blackgrove v. Addison 131
McCarty v. Fitzhugh 219
Booth v. Dudley
122
Meekins v. Burwell
199
Burgess Admx. v. Chichester Admr. 133
Meekins & Vadin v. Burwell et al. 126
Mutlow v. Ballard 121
Churchill v. Blackburn 136
Churchill Ads. Machen 140
Denn v. Smith
161
Digges v. Lilly 119
Edmonds v. Hughes 146
Eppes v. Radford
183
Fleming v. Diggs 187
Swiney v. Dandridge 216
Thornton v. Bucknor 141
Thurston v. Pratt 173
Goodright v. Batson
174
Graves v. Boyd 155
Harrison v. Blair
165
Waughop v. Tate et al. 185
Willard v. Perry 181
Jones v. Langhorn
216
Nicholas & Ux v. Burwell Exr. 209
Powell v. Farrel
166
Ross Exor. v. Cooke et al.
152
Smith v. Brown
114
Freeman et al. Ads. Hurst Admr. 166
Goddin v. Morris & Ux. etc. 188
Tucker v. Sweeney 148
Waugh v. Bogg 186
Waddy v. Sturman et al. 170
MANUSCRIPT PAGING OF CASES RE- PORTED BY EDWARD BARRADALL
NOTE .- The paging here given is that of the original manuscript (shown in brackets in the text).
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Anderson et ux v. Ligan 142
Anderson, quitam, v. Winston 188
Anonimous 42, 49, 101
Armistead v. Newton 163
Hill & ux v. Henry & ux 128
Hunt v. Harratson's Exors. 42
Banks v. Banks & al 283
Bernard v. Stonehouse
58
Bernard v. Washington Parish & al. 254
Berryman v. Booth
39
Boys v. Hoggatt
75
Jones v. Langhorn 50
Jones &c. v. Porters 88
Brooking v. Dudley Dixon
v. Brooking and Collier 239
v. Brooking
Harrison 63
The King v.
McClanahan 37
Moore
35
Oldner & Brilehan 85
Pryor 36
Chew v. Stevens 156
Coleman & ux v. Dickinson 111
Collier v. Brooking 239
Corbin v. Chew's admors. 146, 223
Cross Case
87
Curle v. Sweney
109
Dancy & al v. Willards admx. 327
Darby v. Stringer 42
Dixon v. Brooking 239
Dudley v. Booth
239
Dudley v. Perrin & al 317
Dunn & al v. Wythe. Et. c. con. 76
Edmondson v. Tabb. 331
Nance v. Roy 260
Nelson v. Seayres 126
Nicholas & ux v. Burwells Ex'rs. 33
Farron v. Farron 24S
Field v. Cocke 173
Fitzhugh v. Burwell 163
Giles & ux & al v. Mallicote 68
Godwins v. Kinchen's Exors. 644
Goodloe v. Dudley &c. 81
Graves v. Kennan 41
Harrison v. Hally
75
Harwood v. Grice
43
Hawkins v. Thornton
227, 357
Cross 87
Buckner v. Chew & al 114
Burges v. Hack 182
Burwell &c. v. Ogilby &c. 99
Knight v. Triplet 118
Lightfoot v. Lightfoot 38
Lutwidge v. French 170
McCarty v. McCarty's Exors. 32
Major v. Dudley 63
Mason's Case
49
Meggs v. Bates
37
Micon v. Corbin
35
Morris v. Chamberlayne
49
Morris v. Chamberlayne 148
Murdock v. Thornton 31
Myhil v. Myhil 152
Edwards v. Bridger 109
Ewell v. Miller & ux Admix. &c. 249
Oldum v. Allerton & Pope 307
Palmer v. Word 268
Parsons v. Lee 62
Powell & ux v. Thurmer 73
Reeves v. Waller 32
Richardson v. Mountjoy 194
Robinson v. Armistead & al 208
Roger's Admix. v. Spalden 76
Rose, Exor. Bagg v. Cooke & al 179, 213
Hawkins v. Bonghan &c. 249
Hayward & al v. Chisman & al 64
Hill v. Hill's Executors 54
Isbel & ux v. Butler & al 40
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