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near the junction of the Little Roanoke with Staunton river on a beautiful site. He was appointed King's attorney of Bedford coun- ty, May -3, 1756; major of Lunenburg militia, 1761 ; colonel of Charlotte militia, December 3, 176^1 ; represented Charlotte in the house of burgesses from its first forma- tion from Lunenburg in March, 1765, until 1772 : was appointed King's attorney of Mecklenburg, November 3, 1767; of Bote- tourt, May 4, 1770; of Lunenburg, October 18, 1770; county lieutenant and presiding judge of Charlotte, April 11, 1772; clerk of Halifax county, November 17, 1772. He was a member of the Mercantile Association of 1770; of the Convention of August, 1774; chairman of the Charlotte county commit- tee, 1774-76. This committee, at its meeting on January 13, 1775, indorsed the resolu- tions of the late Continental congress, and at its meeting on February 6 passed strong resolutions respecting persons suspected of disloyalty to the American cause. He was a member of the Convention of March 20- 27. 1775, and of that of July 17 to August 26, 1775. He was a member of the first state committee of safty, August to December, 1775 ; of the convention of December i, 1775, to January 20, 1776; of the second state committee of safety, January to July, 1776; of convention of May 6 to July 5, 1776. He was a member of the house of delegates from 1776 to 1778. He was elected a judge of the first general court of the new repub- lican form of government, January 27,, 1778, under the act of October session, 1777, and commissioned, February 28, 1778. and so continuing became one of the judges of the court of appeals, as organized by the act of May session, 1779, which exalted position he continued to fill until the constitution of the court of appeals was changed by the act passed by the general assembly, December 22, 1788. He was again chosen under the new constitution a member of the same court, and continued to discharge the duties thereof until 1807, when he resigned. He was a member of the celebrated convention of June 2-27, 1788, and voted for the consti- tution. His letter of resignation, dated Jan- uary I, 1807, addressed to Governor Wil- liam H. Cabell, begins thus: "Having served my country for forty-two years, without intermission — twenty-nine of those years devoted to the judiciary Department — and being now in the seventy-fifth year of my

age, I think it time for me to retire from public business to the exalted station of a private citizen." He was for many years vestryman and church warden of Cornwall Parish.

Judge Carrington married (first) October I, 1755, Margaret, daughter of Colonel Clement Read. She died May i, 1766. He married (second) March 6, 1792, Priscilla Sims. She died September, 1803. Judge Carrington died January 23, 1818, at his lesidence in Charlotte. Among his children were : Henry, Mary, Robert, Paul, Lettice. Paul (2) Carrington. son of Judge Paul and Margaret (Read) Carrington, was born Sep- tember 20, 1764. He was speaker of the legislature ; a member of the general court nineteen years, and as such held the first circuit court of Charlotte. He was a man of fine mind, and of the highest integrity, wielding much influence in the community in which he lived. He married Mildred H. Coles, daughter of Walter Coles, of Halifax county. She was a woman of strong char- acter and great intelligences. He died on January 8, 1816, leaving a widow and seven children, five sons and two daughters : Gen- eral Edward, who married Eliza Preston, sister of William C. Preston ; William Allen, married Sarah Scott; Paul S., of whom fur- ther ; Walter, married Alice Cabell and Anne Hix; Annie, married Dr. Fontaine and Mr. William B. Green, of Charlotte county; Lightfoot, who married Isaac Coles; Isaac, married Sarah E. Read ; he was his father's youngest child, and inherited his home, Syl- van Hill, in Charlotte county.

Paul S. Carrington, son of Judge Paul (2) and Mildred H. (Coles'^ Carrington, was born in Charlotte county, Virginia, 1798, died at his residence, "Ridgeway," located on Staunton river, Charlotte county, Vir- ginia, July 9, 1866. He was a farmer by occupation. He married, March 10, 1826, Emma Catherine Cabell, born March 10, 1808, daughter of W'illiam H. and Agnes S B. (Gamble) Cabell, granddaughter of Colonel Nicholas and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell, and great-granddaughter of Dr. Wil- liam Cabell, the founder, and his wife, Eliz- abeth (Banks) Cabell. Children: i. Isaac Howell, born March 7, 1827; married (first) Mary Coles, daughter of John Coles, of Pittsylvania, Virginia; she died in i860; married (second) November 7, 1863, Anne Seddon Smith ; four children by first wife,