Archives of Maryland
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Elie Valette/Vallette (1734-1780)
MSA SC 3520-1936

Born 1734. Naturalized 22 April 1764. Married to Elizabeth; three children: Elie, Wilhemina, and Charlotte (m. Thomas Harwood, 1805).  Died 1780.

Commissioned as Clerk of the Prerogative Office on December 19, 1764 and served in this position until it was abolished on April 20, 1777.1 Took oath as Clerk of the Secretary's Office and of the Provincial Court on May 19, 1766 and served until 1773.2 Register of Wills, Anne Arundel County, 1777-80.

1. Donnell M. Owings, His Lordship’s patronage: offices of profit in colonial Maryland (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1953), 144.
2. Ibid., 141.

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