I represent William Clifton. I was Chief Justice of the British colony of West Florida. Before that, I had been attorney general of the colony of Georgia. While minor crimes and conflicts could be handled locally by the justices of the peace in each town, more serious charges were brought before me and Attorney General Wegg in Pensacola. I had a run-in with Governor Johnstone over “who was in charge of what” and I was suspended in 1766. I had to go to London to clear my name and be reinstated in 1767. I sat on the Council until the last General Assembly in 1778, and I appear on the list of inhabitants made by the Spanish after the capitulation of Pensacola in May 1781. My 1783 British probate record gives administration of my estate to my niece, Ann Raincock.
Sources: 3, 5; 6, 7, 12, 14, 67