William Roscoe Wilson Curl

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William Roscoe Wilson Curl was a Virginia lawyer and judge. Born in Tidewater, Virginia, Curl studied law and then practiced in the county courts. He was made a judge of the Court of Admiralty in 1777 and thus automatically became a justice of the first Virginia Court of Appeals (now the Supreme Court of Virginia). He died a short time later, by February 1782. [1] [2]

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  1. "Judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia". Encyclopedia of Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities . Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  2. Call, Daniel (1902). Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880. Michie Company. p. 626. Retrieved March 16, 2015.