The History of Virginia: In Four Parts

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By Robert Beverley
, Charles Campbell

Published 1855
J. W. Randolph

264 pages

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Feb 17, 2006

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Originally published London, 1705, with title: The history and present state of Virginia.

Contents

BOOK I	8
greenvile, manteo, caribbee
The Bristol voyages	16
caribbee, seacoast, chesapeake
The first Christian marriage in that colony	23
jamestown, powhatan, pocahontas
Pocahontas brought to England by Sir Thomas Dale	29
yardly, powhatan, pocahontas
He defeats the French northward of New England	35
argall, yardly, biencourt
Inferior courts in each plantation	39
dispersi, massacre, invulnerable

Lord Baltimore in Virginia	46
insomuch, lordship, usurper
He proclaims King Charles II before he was proclaimed	52
glebes, manufactures, berkeley
A plot to subvert the government	55
batt, birkenhead, sectaries
Third new duties by act in England on the plantations	62
sloop, mischiefs, hath
The governor makes head against him	69
jeffreys, malcontents, occasioned
He imposes the perquisite of ship money	72

He by proclamation raises the value of Spanish coins and 122 Sir Henry Chicheley deputy governor	74

His advantage thereby in the propriety of the Northern Neck	75

He dismantled the forts on the heads of rivers and appointed 127 Secretary Spencer president	77

Complaints against him	78

Colonel Bacon president	79

The assembly address King William and Queen Mary for a col The education intended by this college	80

Gentlemen of the council complain of him and are misused	81

The college further endowed and the foundation laid	82

Francis Nicholson governor	83
manufactures, edmund, woman
Governor Nott arrived	88

Edmond Jennings esq president	89
chesapeake, capes, brigadier
Earths and Soils	96
freshes, bigness, earths
Wild Fruits	102
faintish, bigness, hickories
Myrtle tree and myrtle wax	108
tulip, stalk, sassafras
CHAPTER V	117
freshes, weirs, cods
Pishing hawks and bald eagles	121
tieing, coronet, gashed
Towns Building and Fortification of the Indians	135
rive, bark, towns
Their seats and lodging	136

Their several sorts of food	139
roasting, sorts, diet
Their drink	140

Their ways of dining	141
dish, drunk, legs
CHAPTER V	142

Manner of their reception of strangers	143

Their entertainment of honorable friends	145
calumet, mats, pipe
CHAPTER VI	147

Their treaties of peace and ceremonies upon conclusion of peace	150

CHAPTER VIII	152

Their notions of God and worshiping the evil spirit	155
edging, idol, deity
Reasons of this custom	164
persons, young, themselves
Their offerings and sacrifice	165

Their superstition and zealotry	166
romish, geese, devotion
Their regard to the priests and magicians	167
likewise, church, stone
Places of their worship and sacrifice	168

Their care of the bodies of their princes after death	169
corpse, shrinking, bones
Diseases and Cures of the Indians	171
puccoon, rattles, brazilians
County levy	204
levies, endeavored, appeals
Officers attending this court	206
pannel, venire, vestry
Induction of ministers and precariousness of their livings	213
vestries, militia, pence
Servants and Slaves	219
servants, slaves, planters
CHAPTER XII	225

Their kitchen gardens	237

THE TABLE	123
tithable, okee, puccoon
Occasions of its ill character	241

Annoyances or occasions of uneasiness	243

Winters	250
ticks, seedlings, worms
Sudden changes of the weather	251
distempers, rains, diseases
CHAPTER XX	253

CHAPTER XXI	254

Taking wild turkies	256

Hospitality	258
horses, himself, mark
Grain	261

Bees and cattle	262
hogs, plant, winter
Usefulness of the woods	263

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by James Mooney - 1894 - 101 pages
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