John Ferrell and William Patterson, indenture to Edmund Randolph, 1788 May 26.

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John Ferrell and William Patterson, indenture to Edmund Randolph, 1788 May 26.

This is an agreement binding William Patterson and John Ferrell to Edmund Randolph, then Governor of Virginia, for unspecified duties at a salary of fifty pounds. The agreement includes a provision that Randolph would issue a licence for marriage between William Patterson and Margaret Hippard. The place the document was signed is not specified and it lacks the signature of a government official attesting to its validity.

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Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

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Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney and politician. He was the 7th Governor of Virginia, and, as a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail. He was the first United States Attorney General (1789-1794) and the second Secretary of State (1794-1795) during George Washington's presidency. Born in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virgini...

Patterson, William, 1789-1838

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Ferrell, John, fl. 1788.

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None available. From the guide to the Indenture, John Ferrell and William Patterson to Edmund Randolph, 1788 May 26, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Hippard, Margaret.

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