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Manuscripts and Documents
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This collection consists of manuscripts and documents which were acquired as individual items not forming part of a large collection of personal papers or corporate records.
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<h4><strong>Recto</strong></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;">THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY FOR THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA</p>
<br /><p>To George Givins, Gent</p>
<br /><p>BY Virtue of the Power and Authority invested in us, by the Delegates and Representatives of the several Counties and Corporations in General Convention assembled, we, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, do, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of the Militia of the County of Botetourt ; and you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Trust reposed in you, by disciplining all Officers and Soldiers under your Command. And we do hereby require them to obey you, as their Captain . And you are to observe and follow all such Orders and Directions as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Convention, the Committee of Safety for the Time being, or any superiour Officers, according to the Rules and Regulations established by the Convention.</p>
<br /><p>GIVEN under our Hands, at Williamsburg This<br />14<sup>th</sup> Day of May - ANNO DOMINI 1776.</p>
<br /><p style="text-align:right;">Dudley Digges<br />P. Carrington<br />J<sup>s</sup>. Mercer<br />Thos. Lud: Lee<br />W: Cabell<br />Thomas Walker</p>
<br /><h4>Verso</h4>
<br /><p>Capt. Geo. Givins May 1776<br />Sworn in before the Committee<br />D May</p>
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Ink on paper
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Virginia. Committee of Safety
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George Givens militia commission, 1776 May 14
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1776-05-14
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George Givens was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1740. At some point, he moved his family to Botetourt County. He had served as a lieutenant in Lord Dunmore's War and was at the Battle of Point Pleasant. For his service in the Revolution, Givens was awarded 400 hundred acres of land in Lincoln County. He died in Kentucky in 1825.
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MS1984.1
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Givens, George, 1740-1825
Virginia. Militia
Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Military commissions
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Cabell, William, 1730-1798
Carrington, Paul, 1733-1818
Digges, Dudley, 1718-1790
Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 1730-1778
May, David
Mercer, James, 1736-1793
Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794
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Bowyer-Hubard family papers
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1767-1816
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Correspondence and family papers of Michael Bowyer, captain (Continental Line) of Augusta County, VA, including various state and continental commissions; leave certificates; certification of his marriage to Frances Carpenter in 1766; letters from John Page and James Wood containing military orders for Bowyer; and a letter (traditionally written to Bowyer) from Lafayette, introducing the French engineer Bernard. Also, correspondence and mementos of the Hubard family of Williamsburg, VA, united with the Bowyers when Elizabeth, daughter of the Loyalist lawyer James Hubard, married Michael Bowyer’s son. Included are letters from James Murray and Matthew Hubard to Mrs. Frances Hubard, Williamsburg; the engraved plate for James Hubard’s bookplate; and a framed silhouette of James Hubard.
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MS1929.1
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<h5>Recto</h5>
<p>THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY FOR THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA</p>
<p>BY Virtue of the Power and Authority invested in us, by the Delegates and Representatives of the several Counties and Corporations<br />in General Convention assembled, we, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Fidelity, Courage, and good<br />Conduct, do, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Captain of a Company<br />of the Militia of the County of Augusta; and you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Trust<br />reposed in you, by disciplining all Officers and Soldiers under your Command. And we do hereby require them to obey you as their<br />Captain. And you are to observe and follow all such Orders and Directions as you shall<br />from Time to Time receive from the Convention, the Committee of Safety for the Time being, or any superiour Officers, according to<br />the Rules and Regulations established by the Convention.</p>
<p>GIVEN under our hands at Williamsburg this 11<sup>th</sup><br />Day of November ANNO DOMINI 1775.</p>
<p>Edm<sup>d</sup> Pendleton<br />John Page<br />Tho<sup>s</sup>. Lud Lee<br />P. Carrington<br />Dudley Digges</p>
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Ink on paper
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Michael Bowyer militia commission, 1775 November 11
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MS1929.1.3
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Bowyer, Michael, 1730-1809
Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Military commissions
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Virginia. Committee of Safety
Date
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1775-11-11
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Militia commission issued by the Virginia Committee of Safety appointing Michael Bowyer a captain for Augusta County. The commission is signed by Edmund Pendleton, John Page, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Peter Carrington and Dudley Digges.