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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1877-02-07/1877-02-10" type="inclusive">1877 February 7-10</unitdate>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Property deed (Lexington, Va.) (WLU Coll. 0556), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>This collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.</p>  </userestrict>
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<p>Donated in 2023</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>This collection consists of a property deed between A. T. Wade and T. M. Wade for a house and lot on Main Street in Lexington "adjoining the National Hotel and the building now occupied by the Bank of Lexington." The document was completed and signed between February 7-10, 1877.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="Source not specified">Lexington (Va.)</geogname>
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    <persname rules="dacs" source="local">Wade, T. M.</persname>
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