Volume 13 , Issue 17

First Court Justices & Judges of Pittsylvania County, VA

When the dividing line was run between Pittsylvania and Halifax, it was found that Peytonsburg, the country seat of Halifax, lay in Pittsylvania, and here at Halifax old Court House was held on Friday, June 29th, the first court of Pittysylvania county. A commission had been received from Governor Fauquier appointing justices or judges, to preside over the courts, which read as follows:

"Virginia, to-wit:
George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britan, France and Ireland, King, Defendant of the faith, and so forth, To Thomas Dillard, Sr., James Roberts, Jr., ARchibald Gordon, Thomas Dillard, Jr., Hugh Innes, John Donelson, Theophilus Lacy, John Wilson, Peter Coperland, John Smith, John Dix, George Jefferson, Peter Perkins, John Vanbibber, Hamon Critz, John Hanby, John Wimbush, . . . . "

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