Jenings, Edmund, fl. 1752 [Prepared statement and depositions in case of Brown vs. Payne]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.246 Author/Creator: Jenings, Edmund, fl. 1752 Place Written: Virginia Type: Document signed Date: December 6, 1752 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy
The depositions are signed as witnesses by Andrew Monroe and Augustine Washington, George Washington's half-brother. Consists of a three page statement plus docket summarizing the plaintiff's case, prepared and signed by Edmund Jenings, and addressed to Sir William Gooch and the judges of the general court; and one page of depositions plus docket of William Brown and William Rowe.
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