I represent Edmund Rush Wegg. I was the Attorney General of the British colony of West Florida. While minor infractions and local problems could be handled by magistrates or justice of the peace in Mobile or Baton Rouge, more serious charges came before the Chief Justice and Attorney General in Pensacola. I was appointed to this position by Governor George Johnstone in February 1764 and I served in it until January 1782. I was elected to represent Mobile in the House of Commons for the provincial General Assembly five times: twice in 1769, 1771, 1772, and 1778. I was also elected Speaker of the General Assemby. I had a large family and an estate on the eastern short of Mobile Bay. I had a residence in Pensacola, probably on the lot I was granted, which was Lot 7 on Mansfield Street at Lindsey (present-day Zarragossa at Reus, if Zarragossa still ran through that block). Back then, my lot fronted on the bay. I appear on a list of inhabitants of the town in February 1780 and in the Spanish list of householders remaining in Pensacola at the time of the capitulation in May 1781. In March 1782, the Spanish seized everything on Mobile Bay and sold it out from under me.
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