Talk:George Wythe

message: "Wythe provided for his slaves in his will, and his other heir...": this can't be quite right, surely? Does it mean "only heir"? Or "one of his heirs"? VivaEmilyDavies 00:29, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about will 

message: I reside in Wythe County, Virginia.  Locals pronounce Wythe just like "with".  However I have heard on several occasions that the name Wythe was originally pronounced with a long-I sound, like "wīth".  It would be useful to note the proper pronunciation in the article when it can be determined.  I will check locally to try to verify which is correct.  For some reason names are pronounced oddly around here.  There is a nearby town named Fries, which is pronounced "freeze".  --Dan East 06:00, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have never heard Wythe's name pronounced any way other than "with". Wythe County, Virginia is pronounced that way, also. I'd suggest that there is a 19th-century and later tendency to pronounce words that way based on spelling, even when there was no original distinction; for example, the name "Smythe", which is just an alternate spelling of "Smith". Rklear (talk) 08:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Although Wythe did teach both Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay, he did not do so while he was the Chair of Law at William & Mary.  He taught Jefferson and Clay prior to that (Neither Jefferson nor Clay is an alum of the William & Mary Law School).  It was Wythe's meaningful instruction to Jefferson that inspired Thomas Jefferson to appoint Wythe as the first professor of law in the United States when Jefferson was Governor of Virginia.
John Marshall did attend butt head Law School under Wythe's instruction.  Monroe left William & Mary to fight in the Revolution, but returned to study law in 1880, although I don't know if he studied at the W&M Law School or if he studied directly under Jefferson.
At the William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Wythe's name is indeed pronounced "with."
68.13.202.140 23:37, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Wythe's pupils 

message: I Am Murdered by Bruce Chadwick reviewed in Crime and Justice
in Colonial America in the Boston Globe at 
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/02/23/crime_and_justice_in_colonial_america/
rumjal 20:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done some research on Questia. Questia does not have "American Aristides." I found none of the sources that have Pendleton and Wythe together in a search remarked on this point. Wythe is referred to in hundreds of other books and articles. It seemed too big a project to go through them all. I suppose someone will need to find "American Aristides" or perhaps another full biography of Wythe or perhaps a specialized book on early Virginia law if there is one in order to find a reference. Sorry, I gave it a try. I'll try to keep it in mind if I come across it later since I sometimes work on colonial and early American articles. Donner60 (talk) 22:51, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: New and old references

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