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May. 26, 2015
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Summary
A selection of materials related to the earliest settlers of Virginia
General
Books
  • Adventurers of purse and person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5
  • Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800
  • A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia, by Thomas Hariot
  • The complete works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631)
  • Early child immigrants to Virginia, 1618-1642
  • Journals of the House of burgesses of Virginia including the records of the Committee of correspondence
  • Narratives of early Virginia, 1606-1625
  • The Old Dominion in the seventeenth century : a documentary history of Virginia, 1606-1700
  • The original lists of persons of quality
  • The records of the Virginia company of London
  • The statutes at large; being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, from the first session of the Legislature in the year 1619 (Hening's Stautes)
  • Three proclamations concerning the lottery for Virginia, 1613-1621
  • Virginia genealogy : sources & resources
  • Virginia historical index
  • Virginia history in documents, 1621-1788
  • Virginia immigrants and adventurers, 1607-1635 : a biographical dictionary
  • Virginia settlers and English adventurers; abstracts of wills, 1484-1798, and legal proceedings, 1560-1700, relating to early Virginia families
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  • America
  • America pars, Nunc Virginia dicta
  • Novi Orbis Pars Borealis, America Scilicet
  • Virginiae partis australis et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentium regionum nova descriptio
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Records in England
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  • American colonists in English records
  • American wills & administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857
  • English duplicates of lost virginia records
  • English estates of American colonists : American wills and administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1699
  • Genealogical gleanings in England; abstracts of wills relating to early American families, with genealogical notes and pedigrees constructed from the wills and from other records
  • Immigrants to America appearing in English records
  • The British Public Record Office: history, description, record groups, finding aids, and materials for American history, with special reference to Virginia
  • Virginia gleanings in England : abstracts of 17th and 18th-century English wills and administrations relating to Virginia and Virginians
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  • The National Archives (UK)
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Jamestown History
Books
  • Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklets
  • Jamestown narratives : eyewitness accounts of the Virginia Colony, the first decade, 1607-1617
  • The Jamestown project
  • The Jamestown voyages under the first charter, 1606-1609
  • The Three charters of the Virginia Company of London : with seven related documents, 1606-1621
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Websites and Databases
  • Documentary History of Jamestown Island, Volulme III, Biographies of Owners and Residents
  • Genealogical Research for a Jamestowne Ancestor (National Park Service)
  • Virtual Jamestown
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Jamestown Settlers and Descendants
Books
  • Historical highlights of the Jamestowne Society's first quarter of a century : roster of members, 1936-1976
  • Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders
  • Jamestowne ancestors, 1607-1699 : commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the landing at James Towne, 1607-2007
  • The Jamestowne Society register of qualifying seventeenth century ancestors
  • Pocahontas : alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April 1614 with John Rolfe, gentleman ... with biographical sketches
  • Pocahontas' descendants
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Bibliograhies and Manuscript Collections
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  • The Edward Pleasants Valentine papers
  • A guide to Bible records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library
  • Index to printed Virginia genealogies
  • National union catalog of manuscript collections
  • Virginia genealogies
  • Virginia genealogies and family histories : a bibliography of books about Virginia families
  • Virginia genealogy : sources & resources
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