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STOKES, Anthony, British jurist, born in England in 1736; died in London, 27 March. 1799. He was a barrister at law of the Inner Temple, London, came to this country, was appointed chief justice of Georgia in 1768, and in 1772 became councillor of that colony, retaining those offices till the evacuation of Georgia by the British in 1782. He was a loyalist at the opening of the Revolution, and was taken prisoner, bur, was soon afterward exchanged. In 1778 his estate was confiscated. He went to Charleston, South Carolina, after leaving Georgia, and at the evacuation of that city he returned to England. He published " View of the Constitution of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies" (London, 1783); "Narrative of the Official Conduct of Anthony Stokes" (1784); and " Desultory Observations on Great Britain" (1792).
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