Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: King's Attorney?


The King's Attorneys were appointed by the Governor (often based upon
recommendation by the Council) and were "...men of high distinction in the
community independently of the honor and influence achieved from that
position."  Those appointees then appointed assistants in the counties where
legal business required such appointments.
 (Bruce, "Institutional History of VA in the 17th Century" (Knickerbocker
Press, NY, 1910) vol. 1, pp. 685-689, pps. 570 & 571,and see "Index"
generally  under "Attorney-General".

The Crown also was represented from time to time by a "Solicitor General",
Richard Povey having been sent out by the Crown shortly before the capital
was moved to Williamsburg.

It is interesting that Richard Lee seems to have been the first King's
Attorney, he having occupied that office shortly prior to Bacon's Rebellion.
Paul

  London
----- Original Message -----
From: Wesley E. Pippenger
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Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 7:19 PM
Subject: King's Attorney?


Question as to how one was appointed king's attorney in Virginia.  I have
someone who died in 1767 and is claimed to have been king's attorney.  He
died in the Alexandria/Fairfax Co. area.  I don't spot such appointments in
Hening's statutes.  What other record might be search to document such a
claim?  What people could or could not be so appointed?
W.

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