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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Alexander Balmain papers, 1782-1821</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Balmain, Alexander</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1740-1821</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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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>2</extent>
    <extent>1</extent>
    <extent>0.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Volume consisting of Balmain's accounts while serving as the rector of Frederick Parish, Winchester, Va., following the American Revolution; register of baptisms, marriages, and funerals 1783-1819; lists of subscribers for the support of the parish church; and a list of slaves with birthdates.  Also includes correspondence concerning the economic impact of the war on Episcopal ministers in Virginia; Balmain's efforts after the war to collect back pay and title to land due for his service as chaplain with the13th Virginia Regiment of the U.S. Continental Army; the founding of Washington College, Chestertown, Md.; Robert Morris service as U.S. Superintendent of Finance, 1781-1784; and the Asgill Affair, 1782, involving New Jersey Patriot militia commander Joshua Huddy, British Army officer Charles Asgill, and Loyalist Richard Lippincott.  Also includes a document recording purchases made by Balmain.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Negative photocopies of originals in private hands. Place of reproduction unidentified.</note>
  <note>Private</note>
  <note>Clergyman.  Rector of Augusta Parish, Va., before the American Revolution, rector of Frederick Parish during the postwar period; and chaplain in the Virginia Line.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Asgill, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1760?-1823</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Huddy, Joshua</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1782</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1734-1806</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Pay, allowances, etc</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Virginia Regiment, 13th</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Office of Finance.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Washington College (Chestertown, Md.)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American loyalists</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Registers of births, etc</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>Winchester</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Church records and registers</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>Winchester</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Episcopal Church</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Episcopal Church</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Clergy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Finance, Public</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1789</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Marriage records</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>Winchester</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slave records</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>Winchester</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <geographic>Chestertown</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Winchester (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Church history</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Clergy</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn" invalid="yes">mm 83086389</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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