The official records of Robert Dinwiddie : Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758 . rds, must havebeen systematically regular. It should not be forgotten that the government of Virginiawas bestowed on him as the meed of singular integrity andvigilance in previous stations; that he was the warm friend of re-ligion, and, withal, entirely tolerant of all mere differences of creed;that he sought the enforcement of morality, and was the patron ofknowledge and education. The library of the ancient seat oflearning, William and Mary College, until its destruction by fire,during our l
The official records of Robert Dinwiddie : Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758 . rds, must havebeen systematically regular. It should not be forgotten that the government of Virginiawas bestowed on him as the meed of singular integrity andvigilance in previous stations; that he was the warm friend of re-ligion, and, withal, entirely tolerant of all mere differences of creed;that he sought the enforcement of morality, and was the patron ofknowledge and education. The library of the ancient seat oflearning, William and Mary College, until its destruction by fire,during our late internecine war, preserved many tokens of hisgenerosity, each marked with his book-plate. Another memo- / Among them, as stated in the manuscript Letter Book of JamesAbercromby, in the possession of the editor (and more particularlynoted on a succeeding page) were the re-imbursement from the Quit-rents of the depleted fund, from the duty on tobacco, and the pro-vision by Parliament, of measures for the protection of the colony inthe manufacture of iron, and in salt-makin;^:. XIV mm ik\ rial still exists in Virginia—the silvermace presented by him to the cor-poration of Norfolk.^ ^It is now in the custody of Hon. JohnB. Whitehead, President of the ExchangeNational Bank of Norfolk, who has kindlypresented a pliotograph of it to the Mr-ginia Historical Society. A descriptionand cut of the mace, contributed ,by thelate Hon. Thomas \l. Wynne, may befound in the A}Herican Histoj-ical Record,vol. iii., no. 36, December, 1874, p. 53S. Itis of silver, in six sections, which screw to-gether, making a length of 43 inches. Thestaff is 28 inches long, 2>2 inches in diam-eter and elaborately ornamented. Thebowl, 7 inches in height by 8J4 in diameter,bears in panels the arms of Great is surmounted with a crown formed byfour bands, supporting upon their top in-tersection a globe and cross. Around thebase of the bowl, in curved line, is theinscription: The gif
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