Ridgely’s Notebook III, 573
1821
WILLIAM WARNER, Esquire, the senior puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and senior puisne Judge of the Bench of Judges, died at his dwelling-house near Dover, on Thursday, January 17, 1822. Mr. Warner had received a pretty good English education. When a lad, I think he had worked in a tanyard. His mother was a sister of Colonel French Battell, who died in 1780, or before, or a short time after. His father I never knew. Early in life he married the daughter of [____][1] Wharton long before deceased. By the death of Garret Wharton, the brother of Mrs. Warner, a valuable farm and grist-mill descended to her. There Mr. Warner resided the most of his life after his marriage, and at the time of his death. He was capable of discerning the
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true points of a legal question and of deciding pretty judiciously. The High Court of Errors and Appeals afforded me the only opportunity of forming an opinion of his capacity or impartiality as a judge; and on no occasion did I ever perceive any deficiency of talent, such as might be expected from a man who never had read any law: nor any the slightest departure from integrity. He was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by Governor Truitt, on the resignation of ANDREW BARRET, Esq., about the [_____].[2]
JACOB STOUT of Leipsic in Kent County, Esq., was appointed by Governor Collins a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, about the 21st or 22nd January, 1822, ut audivi.