Elizabeth McCarty to the Court of Westmoreland County, 1821 February 26

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To the County Court of Westmoreland

Gentlemen

My Indisposition is such as to prevent my attendance in person on you, But I must beg of you to take the Guardianship of me & my Estate from the hands of Majr. Henry Lee & be so good as to nominate appoint my respected father in Law Mr. Richard Stuart my Guardian, and oblige your Obt. Sevt.

Elizabeth McCarty

Mount Rose

Feby. 26^th, 1821

Test. Townsh C. S. Dade

Ann W Rose

Source: The Archives of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Papers of the Lee Family, Box 2, M2009.132, Jessie Ball duPont Library, Stratford Hall

Transcribed by Colin Woodward, 2016 April 21

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