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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Virginia miscellany, 1621-1788</title>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Facsimile of a petition (1621) to the British ambassador to France to allow French and Walloon colonists to settle in Virginia; letter (circa 1658) of the Virginia Council to Richard Cromwell, another letter (1746) relating to lands in the Northern Neck purchased by Lord Thomas Fairfax, and fragment of a letter (1749) pertaining to Eleazer Robertson; three letters (1711, 1718) of the Virginia General Assembly documenting land sales by John and Frances Custis and Daniel McCarty; annotated chart (1748) showing results of a smallpox epidemic in Virginia; list (1757) of Virginia county surveyors; two letters (circa 1772-1775) of John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and governor of Virginia; photocopy, typescript, and facsimile of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776); and photocopy of a sketch (1781) of the Virginia commonwealth seal.</abstract>
  <note>Many items were previously cataloged separately.</note>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, photocopies and facsimiles. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Custis, Frances Parke</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1687-1715</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Custis, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1678-1749</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cromwell, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1626-1712</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Earl of</namePart>
      <namePart>Dunmore, John Murray</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1732-1809</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Lord</namePart>
      <namePart>Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1692-1782</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McCarty, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1678-1724</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robertson, Eleazer</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Virginia.</namePart>
      <namePart>Council.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Virginia.</namePart>
      <namePart>General Assembly.</namePart>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Virginia.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land tenure</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Smallpox</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Surveyors</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Belgium</geographic>
    <topic>Colonies</topic>
    <geographic>America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Colonies</topic>
    <geographic>America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, British</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Northern Neck (Va.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>To 1775</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1775-1793</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Seal</topic>
  </subject>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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