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Appointments as a county Justice of the Peace were for life and/or good
behaviour.  So Washington's appointment was intended as such an
appointment.  Of course, the American Revolution changed that.
Thomas T. Hay
Supervisor, Courthouse
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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