Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0523-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "John Troup Register in Chancery", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Present, His Excellency, the Governor; His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The Honorable Henry Middleton, John Guerard, Egerton Leigh, Charles Shinner, John Drayton, Daniel Blake, Esquires for executing the Office of Chancellor. William Burrows Esq. Master.
    Benjamin Guerard  to The Court of Chancery
    
      
       Benjamin Guerard (c. 1740-1789), son o£ John and Elizabeth Hill Guerard, was commissioned to practice in the court of common pleas, Charleston, January 9, 1761. He was governor of South Carolina, 1783-1785. (St. Philip’s Register, 1720-1J58, p. 141; Salley, Death Notices, p. 33.)
    
   Upon reading the Petition of Benjamin Guerard Attorney at Law to the Court setting forth that he had served a regular Clerkship to John Rattray Esquire deceased formerly a Sollicitor of this Court and that he was willing and desirous of soliciting Causes therein and praying to be admitted a Sol-licitor in this Honorable Court and his Name inrolled as such. It is Ordered accordingly the Petitioner having taken the usual Oath of a Sollicitor.

John Troup Register in Chancery