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    <abstract id="aspace_acbb078b6e3e5eba2bc6eb34293fff0d">Four typescripts by Royal Purcell include "Revolutionary War Records of Three Purcell Brothers", "Dunmore's War and Two Purcell Brothers", "When Did the Revolutionary War Start?" (along with appendices concerning Revolutionary War pension legislation of 1832), and "Three Purcell Brothers and the War of Independence." The Purcell family resided in Hampshire County.</abstract>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82020679" source="lcsh">Hampshire County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Revolutionary War.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039988" source="lcsh">Lord Dunmore's War, 1774</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Purcell, William.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Purcell, Jonathan.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Purcell, Royal.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Purcell, Edward.</persname>
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