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“An anecdote of Sir William Gooch"
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Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:54:50 -0400
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“An anecdote of Sir William Gooch, sometime [i.e., former] Governor of
Virginia”

which I stumbled upon in *The Dublin Magazine for the Year 1764*:

Sir William Gooch being in conversation with a gentleman in a street of
Williamsburgh,
returned the salute of a negro, who was passing by about his master’s
business.    Sir,
said the gentleman, does your honour descend so far as to salute a
slave?  Why (replied
the governor) Yes: I cannot suffer a man of his condition to exceed me in
good manners.



Jon Kukla
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