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NICHOLAS SPENCER.
Colonel Nicholas Spencer, a kinsman of Lord Culpeper, who had been
a member of the Council and its Secretary from 1679, as President became
the acting Governor of Virginia upon the departure of Lord Culpeper
for England, September 17, 1683. He was superseded April 16,
1684, by Lord Effingham. Spencer was still Secretary of the Colony
in 1689, and perhaps served later.
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