Author: Benjamin Blake Minor

PRIMARY DOCUMENT

"Memoir of the Author," from Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery by Benjamin Blake Minor (1852)

In this introduction to Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery, a collection of rulings by George Wythe published in 1852, Benjamin Blake Minor examines Wythe's life and alleged murder. In addition to Wythe's will and codicils, Minor also publishes a letter he commissioned from the Kentucky senator Henry Clay regarding his association with Wythe.