Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in VirginiaWertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
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Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
Virginia -- Politics and government -- To 1775
Peter Force (ed.), _Tracts and Other Papers_ (1836), has many valuable
documents relating to early Virginia history. The accounts of Bacon's
Rebellion are of especial interest. Edward Arber (ed.), _The Works of
Captain John Smith_ (1910), is a main source for the founding and early
history of Jamestown. But Smith's tendency to glorify himself and the
probability that he colored his account to further the designs of King
James I and the court party have caused many historians to distrust much
that he has written.
Alexander Brown, _Genesis of the United States_ (1890), gives many
documents on early Virginia history which had long been inaccessible to
scholars. Other publications of documents or early histories are Susan
M. Kingsbury (ed.), _The Records of the Virginia Company of London_
(1906-1935); J. C. Hotten (ed.), _Original Lists of Emigrants to
America, 1606-1700_ (1874); _Lower Norfolk County_ Antiquary; Lyon G.
Tyler (ed.), _Narratives of Early Virginia_ (1907); Charles M. Andrews
(ed.), _Narratives of Insurrections_ (1915); Clayton C. Hall (ed.),
_Narratives of Early Maryland_ (1910); and Edmund Goldsmid (ed.),
_Hakluyt's_, _The Principal Navigations_ (1885-1890).
R. A. Brock (ed.), _The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie_
(1883-1884); while of great value, is incomplete, since many letters in
the British Public Record Office have been omitted. R. A. Brock (ed.),
_The Original Letters of Alexander Spotswood_ (1882-1885), from the
manuscript collection in possession of the Virginia Historical Society,
is also far from complete.
Among the historical magazines which have published documents relating
to Virginia the most important are _The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography_, _William and Mary College Quarterly_, _Tyler's Quarterly
Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, and the _Massachusetts Historical
Society, Proceedings_.
Three narratives, Henry Hartwell, James Blair, and Edward Chilton, _The
Present State of Virginia and the College_; Robert Beverley, _The
History and Present State of Virginia_; and Hugh Jones, _The Present
State of Virginia_, have all the value of primary sources. The Hartwell,
Blair, and Chilton history was written in 1697 and first published by
John Wyat at the Rose, in St. Paul's churchyard, London, in 1727. It was
republished in 1940, with an able introduction by Hunter D. Farish.
Beverley's volume appeared in 1705, and a new edition was published in
1947. Hugh Jones' history came out in 1724, was reprinted in 1865 in a
limited edition, and republished in 1956. The last edition, edited by
Richard L. Morton, has a valuable introduction, and more than a hundred
pages of illuminating notes.
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