Edward Chilton (attorney)

[1][2] Born in Cambridgeshire, England to Katherine and Edward Chilton, who may have been the local probate registrar, he received an education appropriate to his class, including on April 24, 1674, beginning studies at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.On January 12, 1676, Chilton was admitted to St. John's College at Cambridge University, on the condition that he work to receive financial aid, his father having died the previous year.James Blair (commissary of the Bishop of London but suspended from the Governor's Council by Nicholson) and attorney and burgess Henry Hartwell.Although the report was soon consigned to archives without the reforms having been implemented, Robert Beverley consulted it and used it as a significant source in his History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts, published in 1705.He died by July 27, 1707, when the Queen issued a commission to another man to become the attorney general of Barbados, which document referred to Chilton as deceased.
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