Correspondence, 1727-1752.

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Correspondence, 1727-1752.

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Official correspondence of William Gooch as Lt. governor of Virginia. Includes letters to the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State, the Bishop of London and other British officials. Includes commissions, depositions, reports, memorials, surveying reports, instruction, Gooch's comments on acts passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses, examinations (interrogation) of Indians, accounts for duties on imported slaves, quit rent accounts, answers to questions posed by Board of Trade, notes from Board of Trade Journal and Gooch's will. Subjects include taxation, tobacco, religion (recommendations for clergy and the Great Awakening), military matters (raising troops for expeditions against Cartagena (1740) and Canada (1744), privateers, administration of the colony, appointments to the Virginia Council, pardons for criminals, relief for destitute, complaints of planters, burning of the Capitol, western lands, boundary between Virginia and North Carolina, and the Fairfax grant (Northern Neck).

3 v. ; 28 cm.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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