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Davis, William. Personal narrative, 1779.

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Personal narrative, 1779.

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Includes account, 1779, by William Davis, describing his experience with the Virginia militia during the American Revolution, his refusal to serve because he was Quaker, and his subsequent imprisonment, court-martial, and whipping, with reference to captured British soldiers held in the Barracks near Charlottesville, Va.