
    James Simpson  to The Court of Chancery
    
      
       James Simpson, commissioned to practice in the court of common pleas in 1765, was a successful lawyer of great ability. In 1768, he was acting judge of vice-admiralty; during the absence of Sir Egerton Leigh, he was attorney-general, 1774-1775; in 1772 he was surveyor-general of lands; and later he was clerk of Council. A loyalist, he was intendant of Charleston during the Revolution, presiding over the Board of Police. (McCrady, S. C. under the Royal Government, 481; The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, ijyy-iySo, 1901, p. 713; Smith, S. C. as a Royal Province, pp. 392, 413, 414; SCHGM, XI, 133.)
    
   On Reading the Petition of James Simpson praying to be admitted a Solicitor of this honourable Coúrt it is Ordered that the Petitioner be admitted to practise as such and that this his Admission be entered amongst the Records of this Court having taken the usual Oath of a Sollicitor.

John Troup Register in Chancery  