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near Staunton and practiced law, and at first was very poor and walked to his courts with his clothes and papers in a bag on his shoulders. He was, first, attorney for the commonwealth, and in 1809 he was ap- pointed a judge of the general court. On May II, 181 1, he was promoted to the court of appeals. About 1821 he removed to Richmond, and soon after purchased "Chat- ham," in Stafford county, opposite to Fred- ericksburg, where he resided until the time of his death, which occurred February 2, 1838. **Chatham" was formerly one of the elegant estates of the Fitzhugh family, and Charles Augustus Murray, grandson of Lord Dunniore. draws in his "Travels'* (1839) a flattering picture of Judge Coalter in these noble surroundings. His face portrayed with singular force, "frankness, energy* and shrewdness," a combination of qualities which had raised him to the highest rank in his profession. Judge Coalter married three times, (first) Maria* Rind, daughter of William Rind, of Williamsburg, editor of one of the Virginia "Gazettes.*' published in that city at the time of the revolution. He married (second) Margaret Davenport, of Williamsburg, and (third) Frances Bland Tucker, daughter of Judge St. George Tucker. By the last wife he left issue sur- viving.

Green* John Williams, son of William Green and Lucy Williams, his wife, daugh- ter of William and Lucy (Clayton) Wil- liams, was born in Culpeper county. Xo- vcmber 9. 1781. His grandfather was Colo- nel John Green, of Culpeper, a gallant officer of the American revolutipn. who served with distinction with Washington in New York and with Greene in the South. He was descended from William Green, an

English yeoman in the bodyguard of Wil- liam, Prince of Orange, whose son, Robert, father of Colonel John Green, came to Vir- ginia about 1710 with his uncle, William Duff, a Quaker of large means. He was educated as a lawyer, and served in the war of 1812. He became one of the chancellors of the state, and in 1822 elected judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals. He married (first) December 24, 1805, Mary Brown, daughter of John and Hannah Ball (Cooke) lirown. of Stafford county; married (sec- ond) October 9, 181 7, Million Cooke, daugh- ter of John Cooke. By the first marriage he was father of the distinguished lawyer and learned scholar, William Green, LL. D., o: Richmond. He died February 4, 1834.

Carr, Dabney» son of Dabney Carr (q. v.) and Martha Jefferson, his wife, was born three weeks before the death of his father, in Albemarle county, in April, 1773. He attended Hampden-Sidney College, and after his return home studied law and be- came intimately acquainted with the cele- brated William Wirt, who had married a daughter of Dr. George Gilmer, and was then settled in Albemarle. Carr practiced in Albemarle county, and in 181 1 became chan- cellor of the Winchester district, and in 1824, on the death of Judge Fleming, was made a judge of the Supreme Court of Ap- peals. His profound investigations of the questions which came before him for deci- sion made for him a great reputation. He helAhi.< office on the Supreme bench till his death. January 8. 1837. He was buried in Sbockoe Cemetery. Richmond.

Tucker, Henry St George, eldest son of Judge St. George Tucker by his first wife, Frances Bland, daughter of Theodorick

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