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William Byrd Papers, 1728-1729.

William Byrd, 1674-1744.

Writings of William Byrd II (1674-1744), of Westover, Charles City County, Va., including a fragmentary rough draft, in his hand, of the November 5-22, 1728, entries in his Secret History of the Dividing Line, which he later revised as the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. When Thomas Jefferson sent a contemporary fair copy from Berkeley to the American Philosophical Society in 1817, the text of these pages was missing. Also included is a contemporary transcript of Byrd's entries for October 29 through November 5, 1728, in the History of the Dividing Line.

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