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Manuscript document signed, appointing Richard Cary and Cuthbert Bullitt as District Court Judges.
Richmond: 24 June 1789. 1 p., folded sheet with integral leaf (232 x 180 mm). Signed by members of the General Court James Mercer, St. George Tucker, Richard Parker Richard Cary, John and Bullitt Cuthbert. Affixed with their individual seals. Condition: light browning, usual folds. 1789 document appointing cary and cuthbert as district court judges signed by several prominent virginians. Cuthbert Bullitt was a prominent lawyer and planter who, along with Cary and Mercer, served on the committee which drafted the Declaration of Rights and later was a member of the Virginia convention which ratified the U. S. Constitution in 1788 before serving as the District Court Judge. Cary had served with Bullitt in ratifying the Constitution. The second signer, Tucker, had fought at Guilford Court House and Yorkville during the revolution and is best known for his 1796 Dissertation on Slavery, with a Proposal for its Gradual Abolition in Virginia.