Abstract
Edward Barradall was born in London, the son of Henry Barradall and Catherine Blumfield Barradall. He was baptized on 17 October 1703 in the parish church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Both of his brothers and two of his sisters came to Virginia in the 1730s. Edward Barradall was in Virginia by February 1731. From at least then until about 1733, he practiced law in the county courts of Caroline County and the Northern Neck. His law reports begin in 1733, and so it is to be presumed that that is the year he moved his practice from the county courts to the General Court in Williamsburg. He lived in Williamsburg from then until his death in 1743. The excellence of his legal mind is demonstrated by the high quality of his arguments in that court as published herein...
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2023
Recommended Citation
Edward Barradall's Reports of Cases in the General Court of Virginia (1733-1741) (W. H. Bryson ed., 2023).