George Mason Commissioner of the Peace

1768

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A commission of the Peace and Dedimus under the Seal of the Colony bearing the date the twenty ninth day of July 1768 directed to Lewis Ellzey, John West, George Mason, Daniel McCarty, John Carlyle, William Ramsay, Charles Broadwater, John West Junr., Bryan Fairfax, Sampson Darrell, Townshend Dade, Henry Gunnell, Marmaduke Beckwith, Robert Adam, Richard Sanford, William Payne, Benjamin Grayson, William Adams, Hector Ross, Alexander Henderson, George Washington, Daniel French & Edward Payne Gent. Being produced & read William Adams Gent. Having taken the oaths prescribed by Law repeated & subscribed the Test was sworn a Justice at Common Law in Chancery also a Justice of the Court of Oyer and Terminer who administered the said oaths & Test to John West, Daniel McCarty, John Carlyle & William Payne Junr. And present.