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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William Dawson family papers, 1728-1775</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dawson, William</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1705?-1752</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>1</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, financial and administrative records, certificates, commissions, ecclesiastical papers, sermons, addresses, poetry, and other material concerning the ecclesiastical affairs of the Anglican Church in Virginia, administrative matters of the College of William and Mary, and professional and social affairs of William Dawson and his brother, Thomas.  Correspondents include Thomas Bacon, Philip Bearcroft, John Blair, Thomas Broughton, Edwin Conway, Samuel Davies, Robert Dinwiddie, Benjamin Dodd, George Fothergill, Edmund Gibson, Rebecca Staunton Gooch, Sir William Gooch, Patrick Henry (d. 1777), Patrick Henry (1736-1799), Philip Ludwell, John Potter, James Scott, Alexander White, and Thomas Wilson.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,471.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.</note>
  <note>Anglican clergyman, commissary of Virginia, and president of the College of William and Mary.  Includes papers of William Dawson's brother, Thomas Dawson, also an Anglican clergyman, commissary of Virginia, and president of the College of William and Mary.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bacon, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1700-1768</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bearcroft, Philip</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1697-1761</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blair, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1687-1771</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Broughton, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1737</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Conway, Edwin</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davies, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1723-1761</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dinwiddie, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1693-1770</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dodd, Benjamin</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fothergill, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1705-1760</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gibson, Edmund</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1669-1748</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gooch, Rebecca Staunton</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Gooch, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1681-1751</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Henry, Patrick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1777</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Henry, Patrick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1736-1799</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">governor</namePart>
      <namePart>Ludwell, Philip</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Potter, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1673 or 1674-1747</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">clergyman</namePart>
      <namePart>Scott, James</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1738-1804</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1703-1784</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dawson family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Church of England</namePart>
    </name>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>College of William and Mary.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American poetry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sermons, American</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Church history</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>To 1775</temporal>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Clergy</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>College presidents</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Public officials</occupation>
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      <title>Thomas Dawson papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dawson, Thomas,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1761</namePart>
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