E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 26632-h.htm or 26632-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/6/3/26632/26632-h/26632-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/6/3/26632/26632-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Research indicates that the copyright on this book was not renewed. THE BOUNTY OF THE CHESAPEAKE Fishing in Colonial Virginia by JAMES WHARTON * * * * * JAMESTOWN 350TH ANNIVERSARY HISTORICAL BOOKLETS _Editor_--E. G. SWEM, Librarian Emeritus, College of William and Mary COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS: JOHN M. JENNINGS, Director of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, _Chairman_. FRANCIS L. BERKELEY, JR., Archivist, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. LYMAN H. BUTTERFIELD, Editor-in-Chief of the Adams Papers, Boston, Mass. EDWARD M. RILEY, Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia. E. G. SWEM, Librarian Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. WILLIAM J. VAN SCHREEVEN, Chief, Division of Archives, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia. 1. _A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699._ By E. G. Swem, John M. Jennings and James A. Servies. 2. _A Virginia Chronology, 1585-1783._ By William W. Abbot. 3. _John Smith's Map of Virginia, with a Brief Account of its History._ By Ben C. McCary. 4. _The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, with Seven Related Documents; 1606-1621._ Introduction by Samuel M. Bemiss. 5. _The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624._ By Wesley Frank Craven. 6. _The First Seventeen Years, Virginia, 1607-1624._ By Charles E. Hatch, Jr. 7. _Virginia under Charles I and Cromwell, 1625-1660._ By Wilcomb E. Washburn. 8. _Bacon's Rebellion, 1676._ By Thomas J. Wertenbaker. 9. _Struggle Against Tyranny and the Beginning of a New Era, Virginia, 1677-1699._ By Richard L. Morton. 10. _Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century._ By George MacLaren Brydon. 11. _Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century._ By Henry Chandlee Forman. 12. _Mother Earth--Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699._ By W. Stitt Robinson, Jr. 13. _The Bounty of the Chesapeake; Fishing in Colonial Virginia._ By James Wharton. 14. _Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699._ By Lyman Carrier. 15. _Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in Virginia, 1607-1699._ By Susie M. Ames. 16. _The Government of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century._ By Thomas J. Wertenbaker. 17. _Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century._ By Annie Lash Jester. 18. _Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia._ By Ben C. McCary. 19. _How Justice Grew. Virginia Counties._ By Martha W. Hiden.