A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 1999.10
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Alexander Spotswood letter to Edmund Pendleton, MS 1999.10, Manuscript #MS
1999.10, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Letter, 16 November 1775, from Alexander Spotswood, Surry County, Va., to Edmund
Pendleton, regarding the dispatch of William Woodford's troops to the defense of
Tidewater Virginia. Spotswood also discusses John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, and
loyalist sentiment in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.