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The first Judge to be impeached was
Nicolas More, chief justice of colonial Philadelphia. He fell under such displeasure that the assembly on May 15, 1685, presented 10 charges of impeachment against him to the council. Among other offenses he was charged with "assuming to himself an unlimited and
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A letter including More's impeachment was forwarded to Penn, who was then in
England. He did not grant his official approval of More's impeachment, and expressed confidence in More's abilities. In 1686, Penn nominated him as one of the five commissioners for the executive branch of the Province of
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Pennsylvania's government. More was later given back his position as chief justice of the colony of
Pennsylvania and his job as judge. More made a jail at his country home grounds at Green Spring, and developed a court for hearing cases for prisoners.
178:, he set up "The Free Society of Traders", and became its president. Along with other English merchants, More obtained a parcel of land including just under ten thousand (9,815) acres from Penn for the society in 1684, which became known as the
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Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions that Have Occurred Throughout American History from 10,000 B.C.E. the Date of the Earliest Human Artifacts Found in America, to
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More was the presiding judge of
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on May 15, 1685 for "high crimes and misdemeanors", charged with abusing his powers. Ten charges were brought against him in what was the first case impeachment case of a judge in
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