Petition for judgement and summons for failure to pay debts, brought by George Stubblefield against John Bates, Thomas Childree, and William Mays, in a manuscript document, signed "Robt. Munford", Halifax County Courthouse, 22 July [1766]; docketed on the verso. 1 sheet, 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches, laid paper. Folded, tanned, edges slightly worn, but the ink clear and unfaded.
Munford was a prominent Virginian by virtue of family associations, education, land-holding, military service, and local and legislative office-holding. This document dates from the period of his Halifax County clerkship service (1760-1773) and may or may not be in his hand. Very few letters and documents identified as his are..... More