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Sources consulted for the biography of:George Wythe (1726 or 1727 –1806)
Biographies
- William Edwin Hemphill, "George Wythe, the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1937).
- Alonzo Thomas Dill, George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty (1979).
- Robert Bevier Kirtland, "George Wythe: Lawyer, Revolutionary, Judge" (Ph. D. diss., University of Michigan, 1983).
Primary Sources
- Wythe correspondence in Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1950– ).
- Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees, by the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions, by George Wythe, Chancellor of Said Court (1852 edition), with Wythe's will on xxxvii–xxxix.
- First marriage recorded in Spotsylvania Co. Will Book A, 406.
- Death of second wife in Richmond Virginia Independent Chronicle, August 29, 1787.
- Election to the Convention of 1776 in William J. Van Schreeven, Robert L. Scribner, and Brent Tarter, eds., Revolutionary Virginia, the Road to Independence: A Documentary Record (1973–1983), 3:418–419.
- Election as Speaker of the House of Delegates in Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia (1777), 4.
- Election as judge of High Court of Chancery in Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia…on Monday the Twentieth Day of October, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven (1827), 115.
- Election to Constitutional Convention in Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia…in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Six (1828), 86.
- John P. Kaminski et al., eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the States, vols. 8–10: Virginia (1988–1993), 9:622–625 and 10:1473–1474, 1513–1515, 1540.
Secondary Sources
- Wythe Holt, "George Wythe: Early Modern Judge," Alabama Law Review 58 (2007): 1009–1039.
Obituaries
- Richmond Virginia Argus, June 10, 1806; June 17, 1806 (with funeral oration); June 20, 1806.
- Richmond Enquirer, June 10, 1806; June 13, 1806 (with funeral oration).
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