A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699Swem, E. G. (Earl Gregg)
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A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699
Swem, E. G. (Earl Gregg)
Virginia -- Bibliography; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Bibliography
=Jones, Lewis H.= Some recently discovered data relating to Capt Roger
Jones who came to the colony of Virginia with Lord Culpeper in
1680, including several letters written by him while a captain in
the British navy. W & M quar. (ser. 1), 27 (1918), 1-18.
=The vain prodigal= life, and tragical penitent death of Thomas
Hellier ... who for murdering his master, mistress and a maid,
was executed according to law at Westover in Charles City, in the
country of Virginia. London, 1680. 40 p.
=Godwin, Morgan.= A supplement to the Negro's & Indians advocate: or,
Some further considerations and proposals for the effectual and
speedy carrying of the Negro's Christianity in our plantations ...
London, 1681. 12 p.
[=Purvis, John=] A complete collection of all laws of Virginia now in
force. London [1684?] 300 p.
=Byrd, William=, 1652-1704. Capt. Byrd's letters [1683-1685]. Va. hist.
register, 1 (1848), 60-66, 114-19; 2 (1849), 78-83, 203-9.
____ Letters of William Byrd, first [1685]. Va. mag., 24 (1916),
225-37; continued to 28 (1920), 11-25.
=Godwin, Morgan.= Trade preferred before religion, and Christ made to
give place to mammon: represented in a sermon relating to the
plantations. London, 1685. 34 p.
[=Durand=, ____ of Dauphiné] A Huguenot exile in Virginia; or, Voyages
of a Frenchman exiled for his religion [1687] ... introductions
and notes by Gilbert Chinard. N. Y., 1934. 189 p.
Portions printed earlier [Richmond] 1923. 146 p.
=Clayton, John.= A letter ... to Dr. Grew, in answer to several queries
relating to Virginia, sent to him by that learned gentleman, 1687.
Royal society of London, Philos. trans., 41 (1739), 143-62.
____ John Clayton [to Dr. Grew(?), April 24, 1684]. W & M quar. (ser.
2), 1 (1921), 114-15.
=Custis, John= (1653-1713). Letters of John Custis, 1687. Colonial soc.
Mass. Publications, 19 (1918), 367-79.
=Page, John.= A deed of gift to my dear son, Captain Matt. Page, one
of his Majesty's justices for New Kent county, in Virginia. 1687.
Philadelphia, 1856. 276 p.
=Clayton, John.= A letter ... to the Royal society, May 12, 1688,
giving an account of several observables in Virginia, and in
his voyage thither, more particularly concerning the air. Mr.
Clayton's second letter, containing his farther observations
in Virginia. A continuation of Mr. John Clayton's account of
Virginia. His letter to the Royal society giving a farther account
of the soil, and other observables of Virginia. A continuation of
Mr. Clayton's account of Virginia. In: Edmund Halley, Miscellanea
curiosa, 2nd ed., London, 1723, v. 3, p. 281-355.
Reprinted: Force tracts, v. 3, no. 12. 45 p.
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