Dabney Carr

The younger Carr attended Hampden-Sydney College from 1786 to 1789 and returned home to study law with William Wirt, who was just one year older.

An extensive collection of their letters can be found in the Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[3] On February 24, 1824, Virginia legislators elected Carr a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals and he moved to the outskirts of Richmond and held this office until his death.

In April 1825 he declined Jefferson's offer to become a professor of law at the University of Virginia, believing himself unqualified to teach.

[4] Judge Dabney Carr died at his home on January 8, 1837, and is interred in Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery.