George Wythe (1726–1806)
In the 1780s George Wythe and Bushrod Washington exchanged letters regarding the tobacco business.
George Wythe, the preeminent legal mind in eighteenth-century America, was born on 3 December 1726 at Chesterville, the family plantation in Elizabeth City County (present-day Hampton, Virginia). Educated by his mother, he studied law and gained admission to the bar. Thus began a distinguished legal and political career that included a lucrative practice in Williamsburg and service in the House of Burgesses, the Continental Congress, and the Virginia High Court of Chancery.
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Julian P. Boyd, “The Murder of George Wythe,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 12, Number 4 (October 1955), 513–42.
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