Letter of Alexander Spotswood to the Council of Trade, 1711 Oct. 15. Contemporary copy.

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Letter of Alexander Spotswood to the Council of Trade, 1711 Oct. 15. Contemporary copy.

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Report to the Council of Trade contains accounts of a massacre committed by a troup of Tuscarora Indians upon Enlgish, Swiss, and Palatine settlers of North Carolina and complaints about pacifist Quakers refusing to work on fortifications.

3 leaves 30 cm. tipped to a large sheet; in a folding case.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Spotswood, Alexander, 1676-1740

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Lieutenant governor of Virginia, 1710-1722; encouraged exploration of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains; entrepreneur of iron industry. From the description of Proposals for leasing ironworks at Tuball, 1739. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135435 ...

Virginia. Lieutenant-Governor (1710-1722 : Spotswood)

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Great Britain. Board of Trade

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Founded in 1784. Responsibile for the merchant fleet 1854-1939. Absorbed by the Dept. of Trade and Industry in 1970, but continues as a legal presence. From the description of Certificate of competency as master 1876. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 45671728 In 1851 it became compulsory for the masters and mates of foreign-going British merchant ships to hold the appropriate government licence, issued through the newly-created marine section of the Board ...