https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/law-and-lawyers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=law-and-lawyers Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:27:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/law-and-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-1519713 Thu, 17 Jan 2019 01:22:09 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=17580#comment-1519713 Old family letter says my Great Grandfather worked as an apprentice for a lawyer named Temple in Philadelphia. This would have been around 1875. My Great Grandfather’s Name was John Michael Rielly Green. Any history on this?

]]> https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/law-and-lawyers/comment-page-1/#comment-1519196 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 02:52:38 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=17580#comment-1519196 I descend from John Murray born in 1737 in Ireland who died in 1790 in Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland where he was President of the Cecil County Bar Assn. who was long in Philadelphia as a merchant, 1st Trooper, shipbuilder, shipper, and presumably a lawyer. I’d like to find a record of his admission to a Philadelphia Court to practice law.

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