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About Judge Paul Carrington
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DAR Ancestor # A019726
VIRGINIA , PATRIOTIC SERVICE
MEMBER OF HOUSE OF BURGESSES, VA CONVENTION, COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
"CARRINGTON, Paul, statesman, was born in Virginia, March 16, 1733; son of George and Anne (Mayo) Carrington, and grandson of Dr. Paul and Henningham (Codrington) Carrington. About 1748 he went to the part of Lunenburg which afterwards became Charlotte county, Va., and studied law under Col. Clement Read. He began to practice in 1754, and was licensed in 1755. He was married, Oct. 1, 1755, to Margaret, daughter of Col. Clement Read, and in 1756 he was appointed king's attorney of Bedford county. He was made major of militia in 1761, and colonel in 1764. He represented Charlotte county in the house of burgesses from its formation in March, 1765, until 1775. In 1772 he became county lieutenant and presiding justice of Charlotte county, and in the same year was clerk of Halifax county. He was a member of all the conventions from 1774 to 1776, and was chairman of the Charlotte county committee which endorsed the resolutions of the late Continental Congress. He was also a member of the first and second state committees of safety, 1775-76. On Jan. 23, 1778, he was elected judge of the first general court, and filled the office until 1807. He died at Charlotte county, Va., Jan. 23, 1818."
Source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II: "CARRINGTON, Paul, statesman
Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 states he "served his country in the capacity of a member of the Convention of 1775-1776 and a member of the Committee of Safety"
Paul Carrington was born in Charlotte County, Virginia on March 16, 1733. He studied law under Colonel Clement Read in Lunenburg County and started practicing in 1754. After practicing law in the county courts, he was elected to the House of Burgesses from Charlotte County several times. In 1779, he was appointed second judge of the general court from which he became a judge of the first Court of Appeals. In 1788, he was a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, by which Virginia ratified the United States Constitution.[1]
In 1789, he was elected to be a judge in the reorganized Court of Appeals. Since he feared that, because of his age of 75, he might not be able to fulfill the judicial requirements, Carrington resigned from the bench in 1807. Despite his fears, Judge Carrington lived in retirement another 11 years until he died at the age of 85.[1]
His home plantation Mulberry Hill near Randolph, Virginia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[2] He is buried on the plantation grounds.[1]
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Carrington_%28judge%29
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Judge Paul Carrington's Timeline
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March 5, 1733
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Goochland County, Virginia, United States
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| 1756 |
November 14, 1756
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Mulberry Hill, Charlotte County, Province of Virginia
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November 21, 1756
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Mulberry Hill, Charlotte Co., Virginia
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June 9, 1760
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Charlotte Co., Virginia
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October 26, 1762
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Virginia
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September 20, 1764
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September 20, 1764
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Mulberry Hill, Charlotte County, Virginia
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