Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for William DRAYTON

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Drayton, William, jurist, was born in South Carolina in 1733. He was graduated in law from the Inner Temple, London, England, 1754, and practised his profession in South Carolina. He was older justice of the province of East Florida, 1768-76. He was suspended from office during a portion of the period of the American Revolution by reason of suspected sympathy with the patriots, but was reinstated by the crown before the close of the war, On the formarion of the Federal union he was made judge of the admiralty court of South Carolina. He was associate justice of the state in 1789 and the first U.S. judge for the district of South Carolina serving from October, 1789, to the time of his death which occurred May 11, 1790.

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