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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">.1 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">1/2 in. (1 folder)</extent>
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    <unitdate certainty="inferred" datechar="creation" normal="1834/1834" type="inclusive">ca. 1834</unitdate>
    <physdesc id="aspace_a21e0ec557a82dffb4f56bf13c68bc3b">Please note, some of the pages are partially torn already (due to age of item and tightness of binding).</physdesc>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Reverend John Spotts Manuscript Notebook, A&amp;M 4268, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Bound manuscript notebook belonging to Reverend John Spotts (1784-1838).  The notebook includes manuscript notes by Rev. Spotts recording the subjects of sermons he gave in various settlements, baptisms, his notes on the Ten Commandments, notes on intemperance, and a 6 page list of names of subscribers to the building of the Big Levels Baptist Church of Christ (today known as Mount Tabor Baptist Church) to be built in Lewisburg, WV. Additional information about the church, and some information about Spotts, can be found on the church's National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form (filed with the collection).</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the <a href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright" target="_blank">Permissions and Copyright page</a> on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <subject source="ingest">Sermons.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025854" source="lcsh">Church buildings</subject>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071540" source="lcsh">Lewisburg (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname source="local_LC">Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History</geogname>
    <corpname source="ingest">Mt. Tabor Baptist Church (Lewisburg, W. Va.)</corpname>
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