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

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    An eulogy on the life of General George Washington : who died at Mount Vernon, December 14th, 1799 / written at the request of the citizens of Newburyport, and delivered at the first Presbyterian Meeting-House in that town, January 2nd, 1800 by Thomas Paine, A.M. Printed at Newburyport, by Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

    This state includes the urn on page 22.

    Rockefeller Library copy with the signature of James Sever.

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    The Journal of Major George Washington Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq; His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of Virginia, to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio. To which are Added, the Governor's Letter, and a Translation of the French Officer's Answer. Williamsburg : Printed by William Hunter. 1754.

    Rockefeller Library copy bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, England.

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    Virginia Lt. Governor John Page writes to North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell concerning British naval operations in the region. The British had blocked Ocracoke Inlet and Page urges Caswell to send one of the galleys constructed at the joint expense of the two states to dislodge the British vessels blockading the inlet. Page notes he will have Champion Travis, a member of Virginia's Naval Board, work to get some of Virginia's galley fleet into action. Page also thanks Caswell for making part of the N.C. militia available during the British Army and Navy's move up the Chesapeake as they advanced to Philadelphia and discusses the outcome of the action between Washington and Howe at Brandywine on September 11, 1777.
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    Anonymous manuscript journal, by a member of the Light Infantry, chronicling the events of the Yorktown campaign from the arrival of George Washington in Williamsburg on September 14th and culminating with the British surrender on October 19th. The author describes the digging of parallels, artillery fire, the burning of the British warship Charon, a lackluster sortie by the British and their surrender. Also mentioned are Admiral de Grasse, Generals Lafayette, Muhlenberg, and Steuben as well as Colonel Alexander Scammell who died of his wounds in Williamsburg.
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    Colonel James Wood, commander of the 12th Virginia Regiment, letter to Captain Michael Bowyer. Wood writes to inform Bowyer that the battalion has been instructed to join the main army under General George Washington in New Jersey. Wood details the route and means Bowyer is to follow in carrying out this order.
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