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From: John Saillant <oieahc@YAHOO.COM>
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Editor's Subject: Re: Dunmore on slaves as allies 1772 [J Clark]
Author's Subject: Re: Dunmore on slaves as allies 1772 [J Clark]
Date Written: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:57:16 -0500
Date Posted: Wed, 19 Nov 2013 07:57:16 -0500

In answer to the query – the quotation comes from a letter of May 1,
1772 -- Public Record Office Class C.O. 5/1350. Letters to the Secretary
of State from the Governor, Lord Dunmore, with enclosures and replies;
Attached is the record from the Library of Virginia’s catalog as well as
the paragraph from the summary report.

I found it through Percy Caley’s dissertation, “Dunmore, Colonial
Governor of New York and Virginia, 1770-1782” [University of Pittsburgh,
1939, pp 120-121]. Caley quotes the same passage and footnotes it:

May 1, 1772, “Virginia: Official Correspondence, 1768-1776”, in Bancroft
Transcripts; George Livermore, An Historical Research Respecting
theOpinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as
Citizens, and as Soldiers, 4th ed. (Boston, 1863), 169.

Juleigh Muirhead Clark

Public Services Librarian

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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