biography
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Spotswood, Alexander
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1676–1740)
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| biography:
| Colonial official, born in Tangier, Morocco. He was the lieutenant-governor of Virginia (1710–22). Identified with frontier expansion, he led several expeditions to the Blue Ridge Mountains area, and negotiated a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to protect Virginia from Iroquois raids. |
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