A Guide to the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 1761 August 15
A Collection in the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s
John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 1977.3 1X
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Preferred Citation
Commission of Oyer and Terminer, Manuscript #MS 1977.3 1X, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1977
Biographical/Historical Information
Francis Fauquier (1703-3 March 1768) was a Lieutenant Governor of the colony of Virginia and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768.
Scope and Content
Commission appoints John Hutchings, Charles Sweeny {sic} {Sweeney}, William Ivey, Wilson Newton, Joshua Corprew, James Webb, Robert Tucker, Jr., William Achison, Matthew Godfrey, John Tatem, Thomas Veal, Maximilian Calvert, Lemuel Willoughby, and Joseph Hutchings to serve as justices at a court of Oyer and Terminer in Norfolk County, Virginia to try Jamey, a slave of John Jones, for a felony. Printed form with manuscript insertions, signed by Fauquier.
Arrangement
1 item.
Index Terms
- Achison, William
- Calvert, Maximilian
- Corprew, Joshua
- Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768
- Godfrey, Matthew
- Hutchings, John
- Hutchings, Joseph
- Ivey, William
- J. W.
- Jones, Jo
- Newton, Wilson
- Sweeney, R. C. H
- Tatem, John
- Tucker, Robert
- Veal, Thomas
- Willoughby, Lemuel, d. 1763
- Virginia. Court of Oyer and Terminer
- African American criminals-Virginia-History-18th century
- Criminal courts-Virginia-Norfolk County
- Judges-Selection and appointment-Virginia-History-18th century