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May 1782

William Dandridge Jr., petition to the governor and council

People he had held, taken at Yorktown and gone again, were now with the French army; one told a French major “he was a freeman.”

Where it is kept
Library of Virginia, Harrison Executive Papers, GLR03414 (reel 14, frames 590 to 592). Microfilm, bitonal.
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