Legal manuscripts : 1767-1768.

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Legal manuscripts : 1767-1768.

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Opinions of Richard Stockton, William Smith, Jr., and John Morin Scott on the effect of some recently discovered papers on the case of the Earl of Perth's claim to 7/8 of a proprietorship in East Jersey, and advice on his course of action. Stockton's opinion, DS, 12 Jan. 1768, is followed by copies in another hand of Smith's, dated 21 Dec. 1767, and Scott's, dated 26 Dec. 1767.

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Stockton, Richard, 1730-1781

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Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 – February 28, 1781) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born at the Stockton family home now known as Morven in the Stony Brook neighborhood of Princeton, New Jersey, attended Samuel Finley's academy at Nottingham, which later became West Nottingham Academy, and the College of New Jersey located in Newark, graduating in 1748. He studied law with David Ogden, of Newark, who was at that ...

Smith, William, 1728-1793

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William Smith (1728-1793) was an American lawyer and historian of New York. An influential leader of the New York Presbyterian Whigs, he served as the last Royal Chief Justice of the Province of New York and Chief Justice of the Province of New York and Chief Justice of Lower Canada. From the guide to the William Smith papers, ca. 1631-1883, 1770-1780, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey

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Scott, John Morin, 1730-1784

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John Morin Scott (1730 – September 14, 1784) was a lawyer, military officer, and statesman before, during and after the American Revolution. Born in Manhattan, Scott attended public school in New York before graduating from Yale College. After graduation from Yale and further study, he was admitted to the New York bar association in 1752, and practiced law in Manhattan. In 1752, along with William Livingston and William Smith, he founded a weekly journal, the Independent Reflector. From 1756 ...

Kountze, De Lancey, d. 1946,

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Perth, James Drummond, Earl of, 1707-1781

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