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Robert Dinwiddie : his career in American colonial government and westward expansion
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Robert Dinwiddie (1693-1770) was born in Germiston, Scotland, son of Robert Dinwiddie and Elizabeth Cumming. He married Rebecca Affleck and served the British government in Bermuda and later as Lie...
Robert Dinwiddie (1693-1770) was born in Germiston, Scotland, son of Robert Dinwiddie and Elizabeth Cumming. He married Rebecca Affleck and served the British government in Bermuda and later as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He later died in Clifton, England.
Details
- Creator
- by Louis Knott Koontz
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Glendale, California, U.S.A. : The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (429 pages) : facsimiles, map, portrait
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-410) and index.
- By way of introduction -- Family background -- Collector of customs -- Surveyor-General -- Reports on the state of the colonies -- Dinwiddie versus Lascelles -- Governor -- Patron of learning -- Life and labor in Old Williamsburg -- Friends and quasi-friends -- The Ohio Company -- First address to the assembly -- Enter: George Washington -- The Pistole Fee dispute -- "Repell force by force" -- Appeals to fellow governors -- Military aspirations -- Undeclared warfare -- Co-defender of the frontier -- Lord Loudoun and the embargo -- Place in history