A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 1977.3 1X
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Colonial Williamsburg Foundation P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 USA Phone: (757) 565-8520 Fax: (757) 565-8528 Email: speccoll@cwf.org URL: http://www.history.org
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.
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.
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