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See also:SPOTSWOOD (SPOTTSwooD or SPOTTISwOOD), See also:ALEXANDER (1676-1940) , See also:American colonial See also:governor, was See also:born, of an old Scotch See also:family, in See also:Tangier, See also:Africa, in 1676. He served under See also:Marlborough in the See also:War of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession, and was wounded at See also:Blenheim. He became See also:lieutenant governor of See also:Virginia in See also:June 1710, when he was received with some See also:enthusiasm, because he brought to the See also:colony the See also:privilege of habeas corpus; his See also:term as governor closed in See also:September 1722—probably because he meddled in ecclesiastical matters; but he remained in Virginia, living near his ironworks in Germanna, a See also:settlement of Germans, on the Rapidan in See also:Spottsylvania See also:county (named in his See also:honour) and he was See also:deputy postmaster-See also:general of the colonies from 1.730 to 1739. He was the first representative of the See also:British See also:government in See also:America who fully appreciated the value of the western territory. As governor he recommended the See also:establishment of a Virginia See also:company to carry on See also:trade with the
See also:Indians, he urged upon the provincial government and also upon the British authorities the See also:wisdom of constructing forts along the frontier, and he personally organized and conducted an exploring expedition (Aug. 17 to See also:Sept. 20, 1716) into the See also:Shenandoah Valley reaching the See also:water-parting between the See also:Atlantic and the See also:Ohio See also:river.' These ambitious and expensive schemes, coupled with his haughty and overbearing conduct, involved him in a controversy with the rather niggardly See also:House of Burgesses. He See also:developed the See also:iron See also:industry of Virginia, promoted the religious See also:education of the Indians and tried to advance the interests of education, and especially of the See also:College of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William and See also:Mary. In 1740 he was commissioned See also:major-general to conduct the expedition against See also:Cartagena, but died while attending to the embarcation, at See also:Annapolis, See also:Maryland, on the 7th of June 1740. His library he See also:left to the College of William and Mary.
See R. A. See also:Brock (ed.), " The See also:Official Letters of Alexander Spots-See also:wood " (with a memoir), in The Collections of the Virginia See also:Historical Society (2 vols., See also:Richmond, 1882-1885).
End of Article: SPOTSWOOD (SPOTTSwooD or SPOTTISwOOD), ALEXANDER (1676-1940)
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