Uses primary and secondary sources to present biographies of the residents of pre-revolutionary Virginia in the first half of the seventeenth century, along with historical background on plantations and early settlements.
Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary
In this volume Martha W. McCartney gives us a detailed look at the people associated with Jamestown from its founding in 1607 to 1800.
1645 Isle of Wight Census of 1623/4 Muster of 1624/5 , Burgess Smith , Arthur 1680-1692 , d . 1697 Isle of Wight Burgess Smith , John 1685-1692 Gloucester Burgess Smith , John ( alias Francis Dade ) 1658 Warwick Speaker of House of ...
Jordan's Point, a nearly triangular promontory in the James River, is situated in Prince George County, just east of the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers. A broad terrace...
Captain William Tucker; Captain Nicholas Marteaw; Lieutenant Edward Barkly; Daniell Tanner; John Morris; George Thomson; ... Virginia Laydon; Alice Laydon; Katherae Laydon; William Evans; William Julian; William Kemp; Richard Withe; ...
"The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.
Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.
BY: George Harrison Stafford King, Pub. 1966, reprinted 2021, 236 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-580-4Richmond County was created in 1692 from Old Rappahannock County. This is a very important...
... 551 , 577 , 596 , 597 , 607 , 649,677 , 679,682 , 683 , 688 ; Walter 162 ; Capt . 333 . Harrison , Benjamin 193 , 447 , 656 , 673 , 707 ; Elizabeth Hill 265 ; Geo . ... Hartwell , Henry 618 ; Secty . 103 . Harvey , Giles 410 ; Gov.
With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers at ...