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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Alexander Spotswood correspondence, 1775</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Spotswood, Alexander</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">approximately 1746-1818</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource 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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  <abstract>ALS (1775 December 19) written by Spotswood to Dudley Digges, William Fitzhugh, Joseph Jones, Mann Page, and other members of the Virginia Convention in which Spotswood volunteers to raise a Virginia regiment for service in the Revolutionary War.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Continental Army officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Digges, Dudley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1780</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fitzhugh, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1741-1809</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1727-1805</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Page, Mann</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1749-1781</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Army.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Virginia.</namePart>
      <namePart>Convention</namePart>
      <namePart>(1775-1776)</namePart>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79001808</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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