Data:Oath of Office First Officers of Washington County, VA, 1776

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Daniel Smith Papers, 1784 et seq.

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January 28th, in the first year of the commonweath [sic] of Virginia, and in the year of our Lord Christ 1777, being the day appointed by act of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, for holding the first court of the county of Washington at “Black’s Fort.” A commission of the Peace and Declimus [?] of this county, directed to Arthur Campbell, William Campbell, Evan Shelby, Daniel Smith, William Edmiston, John Campbell, Joseph Martin, Alexander Buchanan, James Dysart, John Kincaid, John Sanderson, James Montgomery, John [Coale? – illegible], John Snoddy, George Blackburn and Moses Marten, gentlemen, bearing date the 21st day of December, 1776, were produced and read: Thereupon, pursuant to the Declimus William Campbell and Joseph Martin two of the aforesaid justices, administered the oath of a justice of the peace, and of a justice of the county court of chancery, to Arthur Campbell, the first justice named in said commission, and he afterwards administered the aforesaid oaths to William Campbell, William Edmiston and others named as aforesaid in the said commission.”