My ancestor, Patty Bowden, was an Indentured Servant to Elizabeth 
Washington, the wife of Alexander Spotswood. When her Indenture was 
complete, Spotswood wrote her freedom papers, stating that she had 
successfully completed her thirty year indenture.

Anita


>From: Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
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>Subject: search for Gov. Spotswood's wife
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:53:37 -0500
>
>talk about synchronicity, this was in today's Fredericksburg Va.  
>newspaper...
>
>>
>>
>>" HISTORY & MYSTERY: Searching for graves  Lady Spotswood's final  resting 
>>place still hidden"
>>http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/012007/01302007/255156
>>
>>  Search for Lady Spotswood's 250-year-old grave turns up empty, but  
>>organizers vow to keep looking
>>
>>
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