[Documents] / W. Houston. 1783-1785.

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[Documents] / W. Houston. 1783-1785.

Summons, affidavit and decision for the court case: Patton v. Holmes. On preprinted form. The document is also signed by George Walton, then the chief justice of the State of Georgia, 1783 Feb. 12. -- Notice of court sessions, 1785 Jan. 5.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Houston, William Churchill, c. 1746-1788

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William Churchill Houston (c. 1746 – August 12, 1788) was an American teacher, lawyer and statesman. He was a delegate to both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention for New Jersey. Houston was born in the Sumter District of central South Carolina. His parents, Archibald and Margaret Houston, were farmers who had emigrated to the then British colony from Ireland. He studied at the Poplar Tent Academy before attending the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), ...

Walton, George, c. 1749-1804

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George Walton (c. 1749 – February 2, 1804), a Founding Father of the United States, signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as the second Chief Executive of Georgia. Born in Cumberland County, Virginia, Walton was a studious, self-taught young man. After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter under his uncle, he moved to Savannah, Georgia to study law. Admitted to the bar in 1774, by the eve of the American Revolution, he was on...