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From: John Saillant <oieahc@YAHOO.COM>
List Editor: John Saillant <oieahc@YAHOO.COM>
Editor's Subject: Re: Dunmore on slaves as allies 1772 [J Kukla]
Author's Subject: Re: Dunmore on slaves as allies 1772 [J Kukla]
Date Written: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:22:09 -0500
Date Posted: Thu, 20 Nov 2013 04:22:09 -0500

Working from the PRO citation provided by Juleigh Muirhead Clark, one can
determine that the letter is described in Virginia Colonial Records Project
Survey Report 222 (old SR # 241) and appears on VCRP microfilm reel #2.

The quickest way to find the Survey Report in the LVA online catalogue is a
keyword search on "5/1350":

http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/I1NN53Q2IM6L6RV1T4YUMRY4BF3LL5KDN9QVHBY93BBS3GJFJA-04916?func=full-set-set&set_number=000522&set_entry=000001&format=999
The letter and its enclosures are described on pp 3-4 of this report (which
can be downloaded and printed as a TIFF file).

Then, armed either with the Survey Report number or the PRO citation,
one can find the microfilm reel via the published *Key to Survey Reports
and Microfilm of the Virginia Colonial Records Project (*John T. Kneebone,
Jon Kukla, et al. eds (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1990).

VCRP microfilm is held at Library of Virginia, CW Rockefeller Library, UVA
Alderman, and Virginia Historical Society.

Jon Kukla
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www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:57 AM, John Saillant <oieahc@yahoo.com> wrote:

 > > 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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