Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1752, Jan. 4 | Born, Caroline Co., Va. |
| 1773-1776 | Practiced law, Bedford County, Va. |
| [1776] | Married Elizabeth Calloway (died 1791) |
| 1776-1777 | Administered powder mills and lead mines in Virginia under the Virginia Committee of Safety |
| 1779 | Appointed by Virginia legislature to determine claims to unpatented lands in district around Abingdon, Va. Appointed escheator, Bedford County, Va. |
| 1781 | Appointed commissioner of the specific tax, Bedford Co., Va. |
| 1782-1783 | Superintendent over commissioners of the specific tax of six Virginia counties |
| 1784 | Appointed to succeed Walker Daniel as attorney general for the western district of Virginia |
| 1785 | Moved to Kentucky |
| 1785-1792 | Member, board of trustees, Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. |
| 1789 | Member, Kentucky Manufacturing Society, which established a cotton factory, Danville, Ky., in 1790 |
| 1789-1816 | Judge, United States District Court for Kentucky |
| 1792 | Married Ann Shields |
| 1816, Sept. 20 | Died, Frankfort, Ky. |