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	Alexander Spotswood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Spotswood was born in the Tangier Garrison, Morocco about 1676 to Catharine Maxwell (c.
		In 1710, Alexander was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, under the nominal governorship of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney.
		Their son General Alexander Spotswood of the 2nd Virginia Regiment married to Elizabbeth-a daughter of William Washington-cousin of George Washington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Spotswood (493 words)

	Alexander Spotswood Biography / Biography of Alexander Spotswood Biography
		Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740), a British soldier, became lieutenant governor of the Virginia colony in America.
		Alexander Spotswood was born in Tangier, Morocco, where his father was an army physician at an English military base.
		Spotswood's emphasis on the power of his office, however, combined with his lack of tact in dealing with members of the council, provoked bitter quarrels and demands for his removal.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alexander-spotswood (489 words)

	click on the photos to see larger images At Germanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander Spotswood built the first seat of government for Spotsylvania, consisting of a court house, gaol, stocks and pillory, and a church.
		Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood wrote to the Board of Trade in London in May 1714 stating the Germans were invited to Virginia by Baron de Graffenreid who had Her Majesty, Queen Anne's letter to the Governor to furnish them land after their arrival.
		He stated the town consisted of Colonel Spotswood's "enchanted castle on one side of the street and a baker's dozen of ruinous tenements on the other, where the Germans had lived." His description of the interior of the "enchanted castle" says that he was escorted into a room elegantly set off with pier glass.
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		This is a table that shows Spotswood's main achievements alongside major historical events and literary achievements of the period.
		Spotswood leads an expedition against the Tuscarora Indians in North Carolina; he enacts the Tobacco Act of 1713; he has a rival in William Byrd II of Westover.
		Spotswood journeys to London and finds a wife, begins having the first of his five children; King George's War (1727-29) against Spain; the new Governor of Virginia, William Gooch (1727-49).
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	Alexander Spotswood
		Spotswood, Alexander, 1676–1740, colonial governor of Virginia, b.
		One of the ablest of the royal governors, Spotswood encouraged settlement of the frontier by exempting the settlers from taxes and quitrents.
		In 1716, Spotswood led an expedition into the Shenandoah valley to hasten its settlement, and he negotiated a treaty (1722) with the Iroquois, by which they agreed to remain beyond the Potomac River and the Blue Ridge.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0846343.html (242 words)

	Governor Spotswood and the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander Spotswood became acting governor of Virginia in 1710, by which time pressure on the colony to expand had become more acute than ever.
		Governor Spotswood now, for the first time, began to have clear conceptions of the vast region which lay before him - the difficulties of the undertaking, and the hardships which would have to be endured before he accomplished his design.
		Governor Spotswood carried his thoughts into the future, and imagined the fine country which he beheld, peopled and glowing under the hands of the husbandman, and all his bright anticipations were more than realized.
	www.patc.net /history/archive/spotswood.html (1380 words)

	James Madison Museum: Hall of Agriculture
		Spotswood would manage Virginia for the crown from 1710 until 1722 by balancing the desires of the colonists with the demands of the British government.
		Spotswood made many enemies walking this tightrope and influential colonists were eventually able to convince the British government to remove Spotswood from office.
		In 1739, with the outbreak of war with Spain, Alexander Spotswood jumped at the opportunity to raise a regiment and was given the rank of Brigadier General.
	www.jamesmadisonmus.org /hoa/spotswood.htm (585 words)

	Some Descendants of Alexander Henry - pafg07.asp - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Alexander Spotswood Fontaine was born about 1836 in "Fontainebleau", King William Co., VA. He died as a child.
		George Lafayette Henry (Alexander Spotswood, Patrick, John, Alexander) was born in 1807/1836.
		Paulina Henry (Alexander Spotswood, Patrick, John, Alexander) was born in 1807/1836.
	www.juch.org /henry/pafg07.asp (545 words)

	Some Descendants of Alexander Henry - pafg15.asp - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Alexander Spotswood Creath was born on 1 Dec 1898 in Pace, Halifax Co., VA. He died on 6 Dec 1899 in Pace, Halifax Co., VA.
		Corrie Dandridge Sampson (Sarah Spotswood Fontaine, Sarah Shelton Aylett, Elizabeth Henry, Patrick, John, Alexander) was born on 1 Apr 1874.
		Edmund Tobias Winston (William Winston, Edmund Winston, Dorothea Spotswood Henry, Patrick, John, Alexander) was born on 22 Jul 1871 in Pontotoc Co., MS.
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	Alexander Spotswood
		SPOTSWOOD, Alexander, governor of Virginia, born in Tangier, Africa,, in 1676; died in Annapolis, Maryland, 7 June, 1740.
		No savage dared attack so well-appointed a party, and there was no lack of merrymaking, as they hunted by day or cooked the spoils by their camp-fires and drank of "white and red wine, usquebaugh, brandy shrub, two kinds of rum, champagne, canary, cherry punch, and cider," which were among their stores.
		They were bought from the latter's widow by the Virginia historical society in 1882, and published as "The Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1710-1722," in the collections of the Virginia historical society, with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Brock (2 vols., Richmond, 1882-'5).
	www.famousamericans.net /alexanderspotswood (811 words)

	GERMANNA COLONY NOTES, GERMANNA COLONY HISTORY, GERMANNA, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spotswood kept a list of the people for which he paid the transportation (this time, individual immigrants were assigned to the partners).
		When Alexander Spotswood investigated the potential status of silver and gold mines on lands patented from the Crown, he found the answer was clouded.
		Spotswood was afraid that if he had a silver or gold mine which was productive, the Crown might step in and demand a percentage on the basis that it was only by an error that the right had been omitted.
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		Spotswood's appointment is for twelve years and grants him "the royal prerogative"—meaning he is theoretically ruling in the place of the monarch and thus shares her "divine right of kings"—an absolutist executive power.
		Spotswood makes work on the Governor's Palace a priority, and on 9 December 1710 succeeds in getting the house of Burgesses to vote him £1,560 to continue its construction, with £635 to be spent on outbuildings, gardens, ornaments, furniture, and a four-foot wall around it all.
		Over the years ahead as he struggles to complete the Governor's Palace, Spotswood is often stymied by the frugality of the Virginia House of Burgesses, who after all don't want to spend too much outfitting the main representative of an absentee landlord, and occasionally uses his own money for the project.
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		Spotswood Elementary School is a fully accredited school and was recently recognized as meeting Annual Yearly Progress required by the No Child Left Behind Act.
		Spotswood, a one story building, is located in southeast Harrisonburg at the corner of Mountain View Drive and Carlton Avenue.
		The community served by Spotswood Elementary is the East section of Harrisonburg, from Mason Street to East Market Street, Smithland and Country Club Roads, and from Broad Street in the East to Vine Street.
	www.harrisonburg.k12.va.us /swood/learn.html (211 words)

	SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS - COL. ROBERT G. SHAVER CAMP #1655
		Colonel Alexander Spotswood Vandeventer was not an Arkansas native.
		Alexander Spotswood Vandeventer was born in Lee County, Virginia in November 1844 the son of William and Martha Clark Vandeventer.
		At the outbreak of war, in 1861, Colonel Vandeventer raised a company in his native County (Lee), was elected Captain, and then helped organize the 50th Virginia Infantry Regiment at Camp Jackson, Wytheville, Virginia.
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	History ofSpotswood High School
		Spotswood High School had its formal beginning in 1973 when the County School Board authorized an Eastern Rockingham building study and requested a report on a proposed new high school for eastern Rockingham County.
		In the fall of 1984 Spotswood became a 9-12 high school and the name was changed to Spotswood High School.
		Spotswood High School's faculty and staff have demonstrated excellence under the leadership of the following principals: Dr. James E. Upperman 1980 - 1984 Dr. Edward L. Smith 1984 - 1992 Mr.
	www.rockingham.k12.va.us /SHS/history.html (799 words)

	King William County History
		The new county was named after Alexander Spotswood, the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1710-1722 under the nominal governorship of George Hamilton, 1st earl of Orkney.
		In 1716 Spotswood led an expedition of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe from Chelsea plantation in King William County to the Shenandoah Valley in order to advance its settlement.
		It was a period of such extraordinary literature by authors such as Jonathan Swift, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope that contemporaries compared it with the legendary era of Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Livy during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus.
	www.kingwilliamcounty.us /history_tourism.htm (4653 words)

	Part II, Chapter 21.
		Spotswood also planted vines, and brought over a colony of Germans to teach the people how to grow them properly, and make wine.
		Spotswood named the highest peak he saw Mount George in honour of the King, and his companions gave the next highest peak the name of Mount Alexander in honour of the Governor whose Christian name was Alexander.
		In Virginia it was chiefly to the Shenandoah Valley that they came, that valley which Spotswood and his knights of the Golden Horseshoe had seen and claimed for King George.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/country/country-II-21.html (1074 words)

	Place Names . . .
		Alexander Spotswood appointed John Carter agent for Virginia in England, but he resigned this post when he was appointed Secretary of State for the colony in 1722.
		He represented King and Queen County in the House of Burgesses in 1710, and was elected Speaker in the sessions of 1720-1722, 1723-1726, and 1728-1734.
		He was at first a strong supporter of Alexander Spotswood, but later broke with him.
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	nature reserves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spotswood Spotswood is located in the southern sector of Middlesex County, 35 miles from New York City...
		Spotswood New Jersey Drug rehab, drug rehab centers for drugs and alcohol ad...
		Spotswood Pumping Station (Science Works) MFP headquarters (exterior) is the Spotswood MMBW Pumping Station, on Douglas Parade, Spotswood (behind Science Works).
	naturereserves.quakynature.com /spotswood (954 words)

	4. Westward Journeys
		Of the many westward journeys that compose Virginia history, two of the most significant are the Spotswood Expedition to the Blue Ridge Mountains, led by Governor Alexander Spotswood in 1716, and the 1728 survey of the Virginia-North Carolina boundary line, chronicled by William Byrd in his histories.
		The first self-consciously "literary" interpretation of the Spotswood Expedition was Expeditio Ultramontana, a 1717 poem written in Latin by Arthur Blackamore, who accompanied Spotswood on the expedition.
		This map of the Virginia-North Carolina border traversed by William Byrd is one of 50 copies printed from an original copperplate uncovered at Oxford amongst a collection of plates given to the university in 1755 by Richard Rawlinson.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/nature/westward.html (605 words)

	Alexander Spotswood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Virginia 1492-1892 A Brief Review of the Discovery of the Continent of North America with A History of the Executives of the Colony and of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
		Iron Works at Tuball: Terms and Conditions for Their Lease by Alexander Spotswood on the Twentieth Day of July 1739.
		The Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710-1722.
	www.wvculture.org /history/notewv/spotswood.html (196 words)

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		Spotswood Elementary is the best elementary school in the Commonwealth of Virginia!
		Spotswood is named after Governor Alexander Spotswood who was a past governor of Virginia.
		The community Spotswood serves is the East section of Harrisonburg, from Mason Street to East Market Street, Smithland and Country Club Roads, and from Broad Street in the East to Vine Street.
	www.harrisonburg.k12.va.us /swood/learnabout.htm (256 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexander Spotswood (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Alexander Spotswood letter to John Spotswood 1696 April 20, John Spotswood letter to Mr.
		Alexander Craig House Historical Report Block 17 Building 5 Lot 55
		Alexander Craig House Archaeological Report Block 17 Building 5 Lot 55
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	Rediscovering George Washington . Letter to Alexander Spotswood, December 15, 1779 \| PBS
		Letter to Alexander Spotswood, December 15, 1779
		Gilder Lehrman Collection Documents > Revolutionary War Years > Letters from George Washington > Letter to Alexander Spotswood, December 15, 1779
		Letter fragment: Morristown, to Alexander Spotswood, 1779 December 15.
	www.pbs.org /georgewashington/collection/war_1779dec15.html (288 words)

	El Duane's Notes about Michael Whatley, born 1720.
		It probably means Catherine Whatley was Michael Whatley's daughter, and not Spotswood's daughter.
		BUTLER SPOTSWOOD, ELLIOT BENGER and ROBERT ROSE, all executors of Last Will and Testament of ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD, late of the County of Orange, dec'd, to MICHAEL WHATLEY.
		Wit: JOHN SPOTSWOOD E. Memorandum That on 27 Aug 1746 full quiet and peaceable possession and laison afall and measuages within mentioned was delivered according to the form and effort of the within indenture to the within named MICHAEL WHATLEY and his assigns by the within named ELLIOT BENGER and ROBERT ROSE.
	www.elduanewhatley.com /whatley_michael_notes.htm (4429 words)

	An Inventory of Records for the Virtual Jamestown Project
		Copy of Will of Alexander Culpeper giving his 1/6 of the Culpeper
		Andrews, Robert Spotswood to the Laird Bogir and
		John Spotswood to "the Generall" [Alexander Spotswood].
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	The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710–1722, now first ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710–1722, now first printed from the manuscript in the collections of the Virginia historical society, with an introduction and notes by R.A. Brock.
		Richmond, Va Your current position in the text is marked in red.
		Copyright status not determined; refer to accompanying matter.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:2001.01.0037 (108 words)

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