Paul Carrington (judge)

Paul Carrington was a Virginia lawyer, judge and politician. He served in the House of Burgesses before being elected a Justice on the Virginia Court of Appeals . He was a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788, and cast his vote for ratification of the United States Constitution.

Carrington was born at Boston Hill in Cumberland County, Virginia on March 16, 1733, the son of Col. George Carrington and Johanna Mayo . His paternal grandparents were Dr. Paul Carrington and Henningham Codrington who had migrated from England to the Island of Barbados his father immigrated to the Colony of Virginia in 1723. Carringtons maternal grandparents were Major William Mayo and Frances Gould.

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