Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699Robinson, Walter Stitt
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Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699
Robinson, Walter Stitt
Land grants -- Virginia -- History; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Craven, W. F., _Dissolution of the Virginia Company: The failure of
a Colonial Experiment_, New York: Oxford University Press, 1932.
----, _The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,
1607-1689_. Volume I of _A History of the South_, Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1949.
Harrison, _Fairfax, Virginia Land Grants: A Study of Conveyancing
in Relation to Colonial Politics_, Richmond: The Old Dominion
Press, 1925. Valuable for its emphasis upon the Northern Neck.
Osgood, H. L., _The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century_,
New York: Macmillan Company, 1904-1907. 3 vols.
Voorhis, M. C., The Land Grant Policy of Colonial Virginia,
1607-1774, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia.
Valuable study with emphasis upon analysis of land policy. Does not
include the Northern Neck.
Wertenbaker, T. J., _Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia; or, The
Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion_,
Charlottesville, 1910.
----, _The Planters of Colonial Virginia_, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1922.
----, _Virginia under the Stuarts, 1607-1688_, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1914.
Wright, L. B., _The First Gentlemen of Virginia: Intellectual
Qualities of the Early Colonial Ruling Class_, San Marino: The
Huntington Library, 1940.
VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY COMMISSION
_Honorary Chairman_
THOMAS B. STANLEY, Governor
LEWIS A. MCMURRAN, JR., _Chairman of the Commission_
_Members of Senate appointed by President of the Senate_:
LLOYD C. BIRD, Vice Chairman HARRY F. BYRD, JR.
EDWARD L. BREEDEN, JR. W. MARVIN MINTER
_Members of the House of Delegates appointed by the Speaker of the House_:
RUSSELL M. CARNEAL FELIX E. EDMUNDS
HALE COLLINS LEWIS A. MCMURRAN, JR.
JOHN W. COOKE W. TAYLOE MURPHY
EDMUND T. DEJARNETTE FRED G. POLLARD
_Members appointed by the Governor_:
MISS ELLEN BAGBY CARLISLE H. HUMELSINE
ALVIN D. CHANDLER VERBON E. KEMP
ALLEN R. MATTHEWS
PARKE ROUSE, JR., _Executive Director_
* * * * *
THE JAMESTOWN-WILLIAMSBURG-YORKTOWN
CELEBRATION COMMISSION
_Appointed by the President of the United States_
ROBERT V. HATCHER, Chairman SAMUEL M. BEMISS, Vice Chairman
FRANK L. BOYDEN BENTLEY HITE
DAVID E. FINLEY WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER
CONRAD L. WIRTH
_Appointed by the Vice President of the United States_
HARRY F. BYRD A. WILLIS ROBERTSON
_Appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives_
EDWARD J. ROBESON, JR. RICHARD H. POFF
H. K. ROBERTS, _Administrative Director_
_FEVDIGRAPHIA._
THE SYNOPSIS
OR EPITOME OF
SVRVEYING METHODIZED.
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