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Delegates. In 1785, the Virginia General Assembly elected Tazewell as a judge, so Innes filled the remainder of his term, then won election in his own right. In the 1786 Williamsburg City tax list, Innes owned seven adult slaves and eight slaves under 16 years of age, three horses, a cow and a 2-wheeled carriage.
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Virginia bar. In 1780, voters in James City County near Williamsburg elected him as one of their two representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served alongside William Norvell. The following year, the district was split, and Innes became Williamsburg's
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Virginia Ratification Convention of 1788, at which he supported the new federal Constitution, though his brother was a supporter of Patrick Henry (one of the leaders of the anti-ratification faction).
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Scotland to the Virginia colony, and accepted a position as rector (Anglican clergyman) in Caroline County. Innes received a private education locally, then followed in his elder brother
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Brothers of the F.H.C. (Williamsburg Research Studies published by Colonial Williamsburg and distributed by the University Press of Virginia 1965)
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Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Virginia: Genealogical Books in Print) Vol. 2 p. 1449
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Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 138, 143, 158, 162
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was trying to take out to a ship in the Chesapeake Bay. The faculty then remaining loyal to the Crown, he was expelled.
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