A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 2002.7
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Robert Dinwiddie was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant
governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Dinwiddie's actions as lieutenant
governor are commonly cited as precipitating the French and Indian War. In January
1758 he left Virginia and lived in England until his death at Clifton, Bristol.
A political and military letter in which Dinwiddie comments at length about the
French and Indian War. He complains to Gov. DeLancey about the tardiness of his
troops. Dinwiddie then comments on the Albany Plan.