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Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802 [Legal document concerning the confiscation of James Wright's property with an opinion by Lloyd Kenyon]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08734.01 Author/Creator: Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802 Place Written: England Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 13 March 1784 Pagination: 4 p. : address ; Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Explains the laws and process whereby the estate of James Wright, the loyalist governor of Georgia, was confiscated during the American Revolution. With a autograph signed note at the end containing the opinion of the recipient of the document, G.T. Kenyon (a.k.a. Lloyd Kenyon), then Master of the Rolls, who presided over the Civil Division of the British Court of Appeal. Address leaf detached. Creator of the document's main body unknown. Wright permanently returned to England in 1782 and sought redress for his lost estate.

Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
Wright, James, Sir, 1716-1785

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