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Type: Real
Size: Medium (101 - 500)

Dr. William Dawson
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Library Information
Library date
1752-10-06
Location
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Virginia
USA
Library size (titles)
Unknown: "a choice collection of books"
Library size (volumes)
Sources
Sale mentioned in Virginia Gazette (6 October 1752); noted in "Libraries in Colonial Virginia," WMQ 6:1 (July, 1897), p. 41
Library notes
Advertisement in Virginia Gazette (20 October 1768) for the sale of Dawson's estate, including "a choice collection of books, ..."
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Legacy categories
Libraries of Early America
18th Century
Total book value
Total inventory value
Contributors
Entity Information
Date of birth
1704
Date of death
1752
Gender
male
Places of residence
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Virginia
USA
Education
Queen's College, Oxford
Occupations
Clergyman
Educator
College president (College of William & Mary)
State official
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