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Complaint of Wilson Miles Cary

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	the lands adjoining containing 20' acres as men<sup>d</sup> in the said agreement, and your Orator charges that the consideration money agreed to be paid by the said George W. Fairfax to the said John Carlyle & John Dolton for the part of the Mills and Lands adjoining; was, as he hath reason to believe, shortly after paid the said John Carlyle and John Dolton in consequence of which the s<sup>d</sup> George W. Fairfax became entitled to a conveyance from the said Carlyle & Dolton of the part of the said Mills Lands and appurtenancies stipulated to be conveyed to him the said William Ramsay having as your Orator has been informed and believes, transfered all his title to the same to the said Carlyle and Dolton, and your Orator further showeth that the said John Carlyle departed from this life sometime in the year 1780 leaving one daughter the wife of W<sup>m</sup>. Herbert and one Son, having first duly made and published his last Will and testament bearing date the 5th day of April 1780, which after his death was duly proved and admitted to record in the County Court of Fairfax, a true copy of which is hereto annexed as part of this Bill, that in and by the s<sup>d</sup> Will, the said John Carlyle amongst other devices therein contained bequeathed all the rest and residue of his Estate real and Personal unto his Son George W. Carlyle but in case his		the lands adjoining containing 20' acres as men<sup>d</sup> in the said agreement, and your Orator charges that the consideration money agreed to be paid by the said George W. Fairfax to the said John Carlyle & John Dolton for the part of the Mills and Lands adjoining; was, as he hath reason to believe, shortly after paid the said John Carlyle and John Dolton in consequence of which the s<sup>d</sup> George W. Fairfax became entitled to a conveyance from the said Carlyle & Dolton of the part of the said Mills Lands and appurtenancies stipulated to be conveyed to him the said William Ramsay having as your Orator has been informed and believes, transfered all his title to the same to the said Carlyle and Dolton, and your Orator further showeth that the said John Carlyle departed from this life sometime in the year 1780 leaving one daughter the wife of W<sup>m</sup>. Herbert and one Son, having first duly made and published his last Will and testament bearing date the 5th day of April 1780, which after his death was duly proved and admitted to record in the County Court of Fairfax, a true copy of which is hereto annexed as part of this Bill, that in and by the s<sup>d</sup> Will, the said John Carlyle amongst other devices therein contained bequeathed all the rest and residue of his Estate real and Personal unto his Son George W. Carlyle but in case his
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	Right Worshipful Peter ~~Cobert?~~ Doct. of Laws, Master ~~Kuper?~~ or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; that the said George W Fairfax, of his said Will did thereby and therein appoint your Orator, and George Washington, and George Nicholas who are prayed to be made Defendants to this Bill, executors? (or exors.?) and trustees of his Estate lying in Virginia and further did in and by the said Will devise unto the said Excors.? and trustees in all his Lands lying in Virginia, not therein otherwise disposed of together with his fourth part of the Bloomery Mills and the Lands adjoining thereto and his Lotts? in Towns not otherwise disposed of and all other his Real and Personal Estate in the said State of Virginia not otherwise disposed of to sell the said real Estates for the best prices that a could be obtained, for the uses and purposes therein particularly set forth, to which will for greater certainty your Orator begs leave to refer: And your Orator further showeth that he has proved the said Will in the General? Court of this Commonwealth and hath taken upon himself the burden? of the Exe. thereof as will more fully appear by a reference to the Records of the said Court of which a certificate of probate is hereto annexed as part of this Bill your Orator further showeth that the said George Washington and George Nicholas mentioned in the said will have refused to take upon themselves the Execution of the said will or in any manner to act or intermeddle in the Estate of the said G.W. Fairfax as Exors. or Trustees; and your Orator desireous of		Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doct. of Laws, Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; that the said George W. Fairfax, of his said Will did thereby and therein appoint your Orator, and George Washington, and George Nicholas who are prayed to be made Defendants to this Bill, executors? (or exors.?) and trustees of his Estate lying in Virginia and further did in and by the said Will devise unto the said Excors.? and trustees in all his Lands lying in Virginia, not therein otherwise disposed of together with his fourth part of the Bloomery Mills and the Lands adjoining thereto and his Lotts in Towns not otherwise disposed of and all other his Real and Personal Estate in the said State of Virginia not otherwise disposed of to sell the said real Estates for the best prices that a could be obtained, for the uses and purposes therein particularly set forth, to which will for greater certainty your Orator begs leave to refer: And your Orator further showeth that he has proved the said Will in the General? Court of this Commonwealth and hath taken upon himself the burden? of the Exe. thereof as will more fully appear by a reference to the Records of the said Court of which a certificate of probate is hereto annexed as part of this Bill your Orator further showeth that the said George Washington and George Nicholas mentioned in the said will have refused to take upon themselves the Execution of the said will or in any manner to act or intermeddle in the Estate of the said G.W. Fairfax as Exors. or Trustees; and your Orator desireous of
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			[[Category:Imogene E. Brown Papers]]
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Complaint of Wilson Miles Cary

Lktesar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:11:42 GMT

Created page with "==Document text, 16 May 1800== ===Page 1=== <blockquote> To The Honorable George Wythe Esquire Judge of the high Court of Chancery - Humbly complaining your orator Wilson M. Cary only acting Executor and trustee in Virginia of George Wm. Fairfax died sheweth unto your honor that some time in the year of our Lord _____ the said George Wm. Fairfax and a certain John Carlyle & John Dolton agreed to take up and obtain a grant for a certain Tract of land..."

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Letters and Papers

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	*[[Francis Fauquier to Robert Carter, 14 July 1760]], John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg.		*[[Francis Fauquier to Robert Carter, 14 July 1760]], John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg.

	*[[~~William~~ Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen]],		*[[Thomas Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen]],

	*[[John Page to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1776]], in ''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia'', vol. 1, ''The Letters of Patrick Henry'', ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 9-11.		*[[John Page to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1776]], in ''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia'', vol. 1, ''The Letters of Patrick Henry'', ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 9-11.

William Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen

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In this letter, a student of Wythe's writes to his parents to update them on his time studying in Williamsburg.

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Feby. 19. 1784

:My very dear Papa
:and Mamma,

The last letter I had the pleasure to receive from you was dated the 6th of Jany. The pain and mortification however, which I always feel at not hearing from you is at present considerably alleviated by the reflection that the severity of the winter rather than your forgetfulness has been the cause of your late silence. as I have found for several weeks past, that there has been no mail at all from the Northward. Very few circumstances indeed could induce the painful belief that my dear Papa or Mamma had forgotten me, so long and so sensibly have I experienced their kindness.

I am very much afraid that none of my folio letters have reached you, which (though I find you are already heartily tired of the proclivity of my letters,) I wish you to have received as they contain an account of my situation and necessities. Nothing on Brown had then or have now sent me the money you taught me to expect from them. What I shall do, unless you send me some very soon, my creditors perhaps better than I can, may be able to say. I was prevented from writing last week by some unexpected business on the morning of the past day until which time I had deferred writing. For this however I dare say you will pardon me. You tell me in your last letter what delighted me not a little, that you would be happy to see me in May. I was pleased to hear it for two reasons, because I should dread to pass the summer months here on account of the intensity of the heat and for that reason wish to come to the Northward and because the pleasure that I shall enjoy at any rate in seeing you, will be greatly enhanced by your
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participating it you ask me how I would wish to come, I answer that my desire is to come by land, and to travel in the same manner that I travelled when I came to this place, if you can prevail on my Uncle A to let me keep the horses I have here until May. if not with any horses you may please to send. This much I may mention that you are well enough acquainted with your son to know that he would prefer handsome to ugly, matched to unmatched horses.

The bill which I informed you in my last, I had attacked in its first stage, and had been committed, has been since reported without an amendment, so that it will be engrossed the next meeting, and then we are again to exert our united force to cast it into endless night. I have never known people more warmly attached to any thing, than the members of our Legislature here at first to this abominable bill. However so many of them have been converted to our opinion already, that I trust we shall be able to carry our point in the end, you shall know the count. You desired me in your last letter to inform you how I spend my time. I will now comply with your request. Before breakfast, I generally read an hour and a half, sometimes two hours in Blackstone, or else am employed in composition which by the advise of my instructions, I pay a good deal of attention to. From breakfast to dinner, I read Blackstone, Hume or Montesquieu. After dinner if I dine at home, I either walk out to see my friends, or play a piece of musick on the violin or read some entertaining book in French, or amuse myself by recurring to some favorite Roman author. Horace, Virgil and Terence I have principally attended to. At night again I very often read very attentively until 10, 11, or 12 oclock according to the subject I am reading on, or my feelings at the time. But as Mr Wythe lectures every

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:Doctor William Shippen
:Professor of Anatomy
::Philadelphia

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Tuesday, and Mr Madison every Thursday and Saturday, you must conceive that I can read very little on those days between Breakfast and dinner, asume one at College from 10 to 12, and we live very near a mile from College. The exercise which this necessarily gives one I find of the greatest service I never enjoyed so uninterrupted a state of good health in my life, as I have done since I came to Williamsburg. On those days too, where the hospitality of my acquaintences carry in me to dine abroad, I generally give myself up to mirth and jollity from dinner time to night. I was very much astonished to hear that my friends Hollingsworth and Sally Shippen were engaged, and almost as much so that he had never written person? the subject, as I had always flattered myself I shared some part of his confidence, Please to give my [damaged] to them both, and assure them of my constant [damaged] for them complete happiness union [damaged] this letter has been spun out to a [damaged] length, therefore knowing your aversion to long letters I must reserve until another time what I have yet to communicate. I bet to be remembered with great duty and affection to my dear G. Papa, sister, aunt &c and all my friends of either sense. I expect to receive very long letters from you y dear Mamma, from my good sister, from Grand papa from Hollingsworth and by my friend Washington who comes here in March.

Adieu my dear P &M the ? man has called upon me 3 times your very affect son
Thomas Lee Shippen

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I will thank you to enclose it in a letter to me unsealed. The night is very far advanced, and as I have determined to read my letter tonight, I must take leave of yore with an ardent wish that your happiness may never know an alteration.

:Doctor William Shippen Jun
:Professor of Anatomy in the
:University of Philadelphia

With the most heartfelt affection love and regard I sign myself as in truth I am your dutiful son
Thomas Lee Shippen
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[[Category:Imogene E. Brown Papers]]
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William Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen

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William Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen

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Feby. 19. 1784

:My very dear Papa
:and Mamma,

The last letter I had the pleasure to receive from you was dated the 6th of Jany. The pain and mortification however, which I always feel at not hearing from you is at present considerably alleviated by the reflection that the severity of the winter rather than your forgetfulness has been the cause of your late silence. as I have found for several weeks past, that there has been no mail at all from the Northward. Very few circumstances indeed could induce the painful belief that my dear Papa or Mamma had forgotten me, so long and so sensibly have I experienced their kindness.

I am very much afraid that none of my folio letters have reached you, which (though I find you are already heartily tired of the proclivity of my letters,) I wish you to have received as they contain an account of my situation and necessities. Nothing on Brown had then or have now sent me the money you taught me to expect from them. What I shall do, unless you send me some very soon, my creditors perhaps better than I can, may be able to say. I was prevented from writing last week by some unexpected business on the morning of the past day until which time I had deferred writing. For this however I dare say you will pardon me. You tell me in your last letter what delighted me not a little, that you would be happy to see me in May. I was pleased to hear it for two reasons, because I should dread to pass the summer months here on account of the intensity of the heat and for that reason wish to come to the Northward and because the pleasure that I shall enjoy at any rate in seeing you, will be greatly enhanced by your
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participating it you ask me how I would wish to come, I answer that my desire is to come by land, and to travel in the same manner that I travelled when I came to this place, if you can prevail on my Uncle A to let me keep the horses I have here until May. if not with any horses you may please to send. This much I may mention that you are well enough acquainted with your son to know that he would prefer handsome to ugly, matched to unmatched horses.

The bill which I informed you in my last, I had attacked in its first stage, and had been committed, has been since reported without an amendment, so that it will be engrossed the next meeting, and then we are again to exert our united force to cast it into endless night. I have never known people more warmly attached to any thing, than the members of our Legislature here at first to this abominable bill. However so many of them have been converted to our opinion already, that I trust we shall be able to carry our point in the end, you shall know the count. You desired me in your last letter to inform you how I spend my time. I will now comply with your request. Before breakfast, I generally read an hour and a half, sometimes two hours in Blackstone, or else am employed in composition which by the advise of my instructions, I pay a good deal of attention to. From breakfast to dinner, I read Blackstone, Hume or Montesquieu. After dinner if I dine at home, I either walk out to see my friends, or play a piece of musick on the violin or read some entertaining book in French, or amuse myself by recurring to some favorite Roman author. Horace, Virgil and Terence I have principally attended to. At night again I very often read very attentively until 10, 11, or 12 oclock according to the subject I am reading on, or my feelings at the time. But as Mr Wythe lectures every

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:Doctor William Shippen
:Professor of Anatomy
::Philadelphia

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Tuesday, and Mr Madison every Thursday and Saturday, you must conceive that I can read very little on those days between Breakfast and dinner, asume one at College from 10 to 12, and we live very near a mile from College. The exercise which this necessarily gives one I find of the greatest service I never enjoyed so uninterrupted a state of good health in my life, as I have done since I came to Williamsburg. On those days too, where the hospitality of my acquaintences carry in me to dine abroad, I generally give myself up to mirth and jollity from dinner time to night. I was very much astonished to hear that my friends Hollingsworth and Sally Shippen were engaged, and almost as much so that he had never written person? the subject, as I had always flattered myself I shared some part of his confidence, Please to give my [damaged] to them both, and assure them of my constant [damaged] for them complete happiness union [damaged] this letter has been spun out to a [damaged] length, therefore knowing your aversion to long letters I must reserve until another time what I have yet to communicate. I bet to be remembered with great duty and affection to my dear G. Papa, sister, aunt &c and all my friends of either sense. I expect to receive very long letters from you y dear Mamma, from my good sister, from Grand papa from Hollingsworth and by my friend Washington who comes here in March.

Adieu my dear P &M the ? man has called upon me 3 times your very affect son
Thomas Lee Shippen

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I will thank you to enclose it in a letter to me unsealed. The night is very far advanced, and as I have determined to read my letter tonight, I must take leave of yore with an ardent wish that your happiness may never know an alteration.

:Doctor William Shippen Jun
:Professor of Anatomy in the
:University of Philadelphia

With the most heartfelt affection love and regard I sign myself as in truth I am your dutiful son
Thomas Lee Shippen
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Homērou Odysseia

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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

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	==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==		==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
	Wythe definitely owned this title—a copy of the 1750 Oxford edition at the [https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/john-d-rockefeller-jr-library/ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library] at Colonial Williamsburg includes [[George Wythe's bookplate\|his bookplate]]. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed it in the [[Jefferson Inventory\|inventory]] he made of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Odysseus. Gr. Oxon. 8<sup>vo</sup>." in the section of titles he kept for himself. Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023) Microsoft Word document (on file at the Wolf Law Library, William & Mary Law School).</ref> includes this edition with an explanatory note about the book's condition.<ref>"The original copy in Colonial Williamsburg's Library has Wythe's engraved bookplate, but it had been rebound in the twentieth century with the Wythe bookplate pasted down inside of the front board. There are no other Wythe markings in the work, neither are there any Jefferson markings in the book, which is a pattern for many of the Wythe books inherited by Jefferson in 1806." Brown, ''The Library of George Wythe''.</ref> Similarly, [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on July 11, 2025</ref> on LibraryThing refers to the copy at Colonial Williamsburg in ~~it's~~ entry for this title. The Wolf Law Library has been unable to find a copy of this edition of Homer's ''Odyssey''.		Wythe definitely owned this title—a copy of the 1750 Oxford edition at the [https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/john-d-rockefeller-jr-library/ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library] at Colonial Williamsburg includes [[George Wythe's bookplate\|his bookplate]]. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed it in the [[Jefferson Inventory\|inventory]] he made of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Odysseus. Gr. Oxon. 8<sup>vo</sup>." in the section of titles he kept for himself. Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023) Microsoft Word document (on file at the Wolf Law Library, William & Mary Law School).</ref> includes this edition with an explanatory note about the book's condition.<ref>"The original copy in Colonial Williamsburg's Library has Wythe's engraved bookplate, but it had been rebound in the twentieth century with the Wythe bookplate pasted down inside of the front board. There are no other Wythe markings in the work, neither are there any Jefferson markings in the book, which is a pattern for many of the Wythe books inherited by Jefferson in 1806." Brown, ''The Library of George Wythe''.</ref> Similarly, [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on July 11, 2025</ref> on LibraryThing refers to the copy at Colonial Williamsburg in its entry for this title. The Wolf Law Library has been unable to find a copy of this edition of Homer's ''Odyssey''.

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