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Samuel Spruill

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ7412683 ↗
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Samuel Spruill served in the Provincial Assembly of North Carolina from 1754 until his death in 1760. He was the son of Dr. Godfrey Spruill, the patriarch of the Spruill family in the United States and the first doctor in North Carolina.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Spruill” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.