John Robinson Estate Scandal
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John Robinson Estate Scandal- was a scandal in the Virginia Colony which invoved John Robinson (Virginia). When Edmund Pendleton (Robinson's protege) was looking over Robinson's financial records he was shocked to see the prestigious speaker and treasurer had fifty thousand pounds of debt. Pendelton then went to the Virginia Gazette writing on the front page to all people in debt to Robinson, " make immediate payment". Later records showed from the colonial treasury that Robinson was taking the paper money he was suppose to destroy and using it to pay his debt. In December 1766, a staggering report came to the House of Burgesses that John Robinson Estate owed the colony over one hundred thousand pounds.
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- Mayer, Henry "A Son of Thunder, Patrick Henry and the American Republic". New York: Franklin Watts, 1986.
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