The John Robinson estate scandal was a major financial scandal in Colonial Virginia.
After the 1766 death of John Robinson, the powerful and aristocratic Virginia planter who served as both Speaker of the House of Burgesses and the colony's treasurer, Robinson's protégé Edmund Pendleton discovered that Robinson's estate had significant debts. Robinson had been Speaker since 1738. Because of rumors concerning his handling of Treasury accounts, and because Robinson was widely considered one of the colony's richest men, the supervising judges appointed three executors and required an unprecedented bond of £250,000 (half as much as the colony had spent during the French and Indian War) from eight sureties (later shown to have been themselves indebted to the estate).[1] Pendleton[2] placed many notices in the Virginia Gazette and other venues, asking that all people in debt to Robinson "make immediate payment." However, the estate was not closed until 1808, and Pendleton's decision to pay debts owed the Commonwealth in depreciated currency produced a famous legal decision concerning federal/state relations.
^Mays, David J., Edmund Pendleton (Virginia State Library 1984 reprint of Harvard University Press, 1953) vol. I, p. 180.
^Co-executor Peter Randolph, did little with respect to the estate before his own death in 1767. The remaining executor Peter Lyons ultimately denied much involvement in the estate's administration and handed over £1000 of his fees to Pendleton's estate. Mays at p. 194.
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