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and kept one of the most informative, if not scandalous, diaries of the colonial period. When he died in 1744, he left an estate of almost 180,000 acres. William Byrd III dissipated the family fortune, fell into disgrace for not being an early advocate of revolution, and committed suicide in 1777.

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