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To all, particularly our Chesapeake experts: Gerald Mullin, in Flight and Rebellion, p. 131, has a long quote on the potential of slave allies in a British armed struggle with Virginia, from what he says is a 1772 report by Lord Dunmore to "the Secretary of the colonies." He cites an article in the WMQ, 1st Ser. 16 (1907-8), 44f, as his source. This article has no such quotation in it, nor do -- apparently -- the other citations in that note. Mullin is widely cited for this quotation. Can anyone point me to an accessible original source for this quote? Presumably the original is a manuscript in the British Archives, John Brooke --
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