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Robert Spilsbe Coleman Arithmetic Book, Manuscript MS 73.4, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Gift, 1973.
Also available on microfilm (M-1317.2)
The Spotsylvania County records, 1721-1800, list several branches of the Coleman family, which included several Robert Spilsbes. This individual cannot be absolutely identified.
Arithmetic exercise book explaining and demonstrating addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, wine measure, dry measure, and long measure. Inscribed "Robert Spilsbe Coleman His Book August the 19, 1773" and probably used by him until 1775. Next used by Coleman's son, Robert Spilsbe Coleman, Jr., in 1782-1783 and 1821. Also contains a list of family births, 1851-1857.