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[Bibliography entry], Bibliography of Jamestown Sources, Colonial National Historical Park, National Park Service, 2004
The scope of a comprehensive bibliography on Jamestown must necessarily be broad, spanning the whole range of the site's history from 1607 to 2007, from English exploration and colonization to the era of American hegemony and nostalgia, from the matchlock to ground-penetrating radar, from iron-helmeted mercenaries seeking gold and glory for King and Church to the denim-clad troops of Historical Archaeology and High Academe digging carefully into earth and archive for nuggets of the past, from the enigmatic daughter of a tribal leader to a larger-than-life heroine of Hollywood hype, from the early proselytizers of adventure and fortune to historians describing in turn the mythical and the factual, from the coffee klatch of gentlewomen hoping to preserve their visions of ancestral valor to the planners and promoters of past and future celebrations of Jamestown's "firsts."
The variety of formats represented among the entries of such a bibliography must also be extensive, covering the range of technologies used to record data and dreams throughout the period. There are manuscripts and archives; books and pamphlets; periodical articles, research reports, and lectures; songs, poems, plays, and novels; maps, charts, paintings, sound recordings, and films; and, yes, even computer programs.
This document has all of the above and more, but it does not have everything. From the beginning it has been understood that the bibliography would be not only a lengthy listing of resources, but also an exercise in compiling such a tool using computer software, thereby creating a database which could easily be supplemented in the future. The resources dedicated to the bibliography were never sufficient to generate an exhaustive compilation covering the four centuries of Jamestown's recorded history. The database, however, can be augmented as new materials are produced and as earlier documents are discovered and cataloged.
The bibliography has been created under a Cooperative Agreement between the National Park Service and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The entire project is known as the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment. Its goal has been to undertake archaeological, historical, and bibliographic studies that can be used by the Park Service in evaluating and managing the cultural resources on Jamestown Island.
Much of the bibliographic work of the assessment project was undertaken by the project's historian, who visited depositories and record offices, scanned newspapers and periodicals, identified relevant maps and other charts, and created databases citing references to Jamestown in all of these sources. The databases are invaluable resources which, as of the publication of this report, exist outside the formal bibliography.
The bibliography itself was generated principally by two methods-searching online bibliographic databases and perusing published works and their reference lists. Initially, a large number of foreign and domestic depositories were queried in search of documents that might contain clues to Jamestown's past. This strategy, however, rarely produced sufficient information to comprise an entry in the bibliography, though it did provide the project historian with a few intriguing leads. (Most depositories do not have finding aids at a level of detail that would allow a busy staff person to locate relevant citations without extensive research. Such a task would require on-site visits by experienced historians possessing adequate language and research skills. The responses to our polling of the depositories indicate that this is an area of inquiry that is worthy of pursuit. Archives in Spain and the Netherlands seem to offer especially good prospects for useful results.)
The online databases searched were the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, the RLIN Bibliographic Files of Research Libraries Group, and the DIALOG service of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. Records relating to Jamestown, Virginia, were downloaded from these databases and transferred by way of Biblio-Link into ProCite databases. Biblio-Link and ProCite are computer programs published by Research Information Systems. ProCite is the bibliographic management software that was designated by the National Park Service for use in creating the assessment project's bibliography.
Depositories known to be holding the original or a copy of the map are noted in each entry. Most maps are available at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The bibliographer examined the maps at the Rockefeller Library and used the title and imprint information as it appears on each chart, with some punctuation changes to enhance logic and clarity.
Entries on audiovisual materials in sections 14 through 18 often include information on accompanying literature, such as a teacher's guide. Pictorial Works, in Section 19, include paintings, posters, prints, and stereographs.
Section 21 has entries describing conference papers, periodical articles, and project reports generated by assessment project staff during the five years of the Cooperative Agreement.
References in the indexes are to entry numbers, not page numbers. Numerous index listings have been added in order to cite authors and titles which are noted in the bibliography but which do not have separate entries of their own.
After the principal bibliography was compiled, The National Park Service reviewed and noted about thirty additional entries that they would like to have included. Rather than reformat the text and indexes, these were added to the end of the ProCite database and then individually inserted in the printed document. For this reason, occasionally entry numbers may appear "out of order" (for example, 1217 may be between 470 and 471). To facilitate ease of use, in this case both the entry number and page number are included in the index (e.g., 1217 (PAGE 172)).
The Author Index includes individual authors, corporate authors, illustrators, editors, compilers, cartographers, surveyors, engravers, composers, producers, directors, and any other contributors that might be noted in entries.
The subject headings used in the Subject Index, and also in the Keywords fields of the ProCite database, are based on Library of Congress Subject Headings, 18th ed. (Washington: 1995), with some adaptations. Since this bibliography is about a particular place, most geographic subdivisions would be redundant. The main heading "Jamestown (Va.)" is used, however, with such general subdivisions as "Description and travel" and "History" and with form subdivisions such as "Guidebooks," "Juvenile literature," and "Pictorial works."
Listings in the Index to Place Names on Maps appear as they are spelled on the maps. References to Jamestown, for example, might be found under lames T., Iamestown, James To., James Town, and several other forms. The index includes sites on or near Jamestown Island. References to Williamsburg (established in 1699) are given only for eighteenth-century maps.
The ProCite database of bibliographic records has additional information that does not appear in this printed bibliography. A few items have not been included if they could not be examined directly and if their records are too incomplete to be useful. Some records in the ProCite database contain references to book reviews or to microform versions of the work. If the form of the author's name on a work differs from uniform entry, the variant is cited in a note. For obscure items entered from OCLC records, the name of the cataloging library is given as a suggestion of availability. The ProCite database will be in the possession of the National Park Service at the end of the assessment project. Its subsequent availability is yet to be determined.
The Jamestown Archaeological Assessment's first bibliographer was Susan Shames, Decorative Arts Librarian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. In the early months of the project, she developed a plan for the bibliography, installed ProCite and entered the first records, sent query letters to more than 130 foreign and domestic archives, and generously bestowed upon her successor the benefits of her hard work and knowledge.
Among those at the outset who provided counsel and suggested a course of action were John Haskell (Swem Library, College of William and Mary), Karen Ordahl Kupperman (University of Connecticut), Helen Wallis (Map Division, British Library), David and Alison Quinn (Liverpool), David Ransome (Rhode Island School of Design), Lorena Walsh (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation), and Martha McCartney. As the project's historian, however, Ms. McCartney has been a valued colleague for the duration. She identified most of the maps listed in Section 13, and her tireless sleuthing has produced files of data from countless sources detailing the story of Jamestown.
The central role of computers in the assembling of this bibliography produced a heavy reliance on technical support. Beth Nagle (Information Technology, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) gave sound advice on hardware and later installed software for the project. Bettina Manzo (Swem Library, College of William and Mary), Chuck Ralkind (National Park Service-Yorktown), and librarians Effie Nicosia, Don Dowdey and Garland Gouger (NASA-Langley) shared their experiences as ProCite users. Much helpful assistance was sought and obtained from customer service personnel at Personal Bibliographic Software, SOLINET, OCLC, RLIN, and Research Information Systems, most notably Karen Jordan (PBS) and Diane Brown (SOLINET).
Seventy-five percent of the depositories that were queried at the beginning of the project graciously responded. As leads developed or questions arose regarding a specific collection or document, other inquiries were dispatched. Helpful responses came from W. J. Hitchens at the University of Sheffield; Donald Gibson at the Kent County (England) Archives; Mary Sampson at the Royal Society in London; Mrs. P. Thomson at the William Salt Library, Stafford, England; R. M. Haubourdin at the Algemeen Rijksarchief in The Hague; Pilar Lazaro de la Escosura at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville; William R. Erwin, Jr., at Duke University; Eva M. Chandler, Margaret D. Hrabe, and Robin D. Wear at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library; E. Lee Shepard at the Virginia Historical Society; Mary Dessypris and John Kneebone at the Library of Virginia; Gretchen Schneider and Ann Berry at the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; Margaret Cook at Swem Library, College of William and Mary; Eric G. Ackermann at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and staff at Macalaster College's DeWitt Wallace Library and at the Montgomery County (Ohio) Records Center and Archives.
Assessment project team members submitted copies of reports, articles, and conference papers for inclusion in the bibliography. Cary Carson, senior principal investigator, provided guidance within an atmosphere conducive to independent work. Greg Brown has been very helpful with the preparation of the final report. Administrative and clerical support was ably supplied by Wendy Sumerlin and Lynn Fletcher. National Park Service staff, including Jane Sundberg, Jim Haskett, David Riggs, and Diane Stallings, gave advice, information, and encouragement.
The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library and its predecessor, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, have provided "headquarters" for the bibliography project, as well as the bibliographer's other job. The cooperation and support of the library staff have been crucial to the accomplishment of this work. Numerous interlibrary loans were arranged by Lois Danuser. Suggestions from Mary Haskell and Julie Conlee helped facilitate access to online services. John Ingram, Gail Greve, and George Yetter in the Special Collections Department gathered maps, acquired microfilm, and located obscure uncataloged items in the vault. A willing assist and a smile were always available from Inge Flester.
The bibliographer's participation in this project would have been impossible without the encouragement and support of Susan Berg and Liz Ackert, Director and Public Services Librarian respectively at the Rockefeller Library. Among their many contributions were a boost at the start, clarification of goals, ongoing advice, work space, flexible scheduling, technical support, and practical solutions to unforeseen problems.
The ten-volume Jamestown Archaeological Assessment (JAA) represents the culmination of six decades of archaeology conducted by the National Park Service on one of the most significant sites in North America. In the 1930s, J. C. Harrington, the father of historical archaeology, conducted the first surveys of New Towne that identified the foundations of major buildings from the seventeenth-century capital city. In the 1950s, John L. Cotter developed a grid system for New Towne that resulted in the development of a historical base map, which proved to be invaluable for the JAA team. Then in the late 1980s, James N. Haskett, Assistant Superintendent, identified the need to survey the entire portion of Jamestown Island owned by the National Park Service. The objectives of this survey were to test new methods of locating archaeological sites, evaluate their effectiveness, and ensure a comprehensive and integrated approach. The Assessment included the relationship of the natural environment to the historical events, historical documentation of land ownership and those who lived on Jamestown Island, an analysis of artifacts and skeletal material previously uncovered, and using the latest technology, i.e., Geographical Information Systems, to document the discoveries. As we approach the 400th anniversary of Jamestown in 2007, this assessment will serve as a guiding light for the preservation and interpretation of America's birthplace well into the next century.
I wish to thank for their dedicated service and enthusiasm: James Haskett, Dr. David G. Orr, Jane Sundberg, David Riggs, Diane Stallings, Chuck Rafkind, Karen G. Rehm, and other members of the park staff. The research teams of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, as directed by Dr. Cary Carson and Dr. Marley Brown, III, and The College of William and Mary, under the direction of Dennis Blanton, who prepared the studies, are to be commended for their scholarly and thorough approach. Last but not least, I acknowledge the support of Kate Stevenson, Associate Director, Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships, National Park Service, and the Jamestown Rediscovery project team under the direction of Dr. William Kelso of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in their roles as partners in preserving and studying Jamestown. The printing of this study is funded in part by the Valley Forge Center for Cultural Resources.
Alec Gould, Superintendent, Colonial National Historical Park
Family members represented include John Ambler (1762-1830), lawyer and planter of Jamestown, James City County, Richmond, and Williamsburg, and lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia; and his son Phillip St. George Ambler (1806-1877). Materials include John Ambler's correspondence (1792-1832, 81 items) concerning the Virginia militia, slaves, the James River Company, and the War of 1812; accounts (1797-1836, 28 items); deeds for land and slaves; and Virginia militia muster rolls and other materials (1797-1814, 19 items). Also included are letters (1830-1852, 10 items) written to Phillip St. George Ambler and scattered correspondence and accounts of other Ambler family members. Unpublished description available.
Includes an 1800 overseer's agreement relating to John Ambler's "James Town" plantation.
Concerned with the descendants of Richard Ambler of "Little York" and Elizabeth Jaquelin of Jamestown, who were married in 1729. John Jaquelin Ambler, the eldest son of John and Catherine Norton Ambler, was born in Williamsburg in 1801. Includes an index of names.
Land grants, deeds, surveys, bonds, indentures, and other land papers from the vicinity of Jamestown and the Fairfax Proprietary estates of the Northern Neck. Names represented include Richard Ambler and family, Sir Edmund Andros, Nathaniel Bacon, Sir William Berkeley, the Beverley family, Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir William Gooch, Henry Hartwell, Francis Nicholson, and Alexander Spotswood.
The collection contains items relating to the operation of the Association's historic site at Jamestown, including three volumes of accounts (1907-1936), mostly kept by Mary Washington Ball (Minor) Lightfoot, chair of the Jamestown Committee, and a few loose accounts (1936-1947). Also, an 1892 membership list; a record of correspondence (1889-1893) kept by Lucy Parke (Chamberlayne) Bagby; and letters (1889-1904) to an early president, Isobel Lamont (Stewart) Bryan. Unpublished description available.
Mimeographed. Includes a copy of the agreement, a statement by an attorney for the Association, and a cover letter.
Includes correspondence, financial and legal documents, minutes and photographs. The long run of minutes, 1900-1976, document the development and work of this preservation group, which took an interest in the historical sites of Jamestown and Williamsburg. Also included are photographs of Jamestown Island (1900-1910). Inventory available in library.
Most materials in this collection date from 1946 to 1955, when Emily Withers was Director. Included are minutes of meetings, annual reports, information about special events, clippings, photographs, and pamphlets concerning specific tours and speakers. Topics include APVA activities and historic properties, such as Jamestown. Guide available.
The papers consist of reports submitted to APVA concerning the remodeling of the Museum and Relic House, possible construction of a new building, and a possible agreement of cooperation between the National Park Service and APVA
The correspondence of Lucy Parke (Chamberlayne) Bagby (1842-1927) includes items relating to the APVA. The papers of Parke's daughter Ellen Matthews Bagby (1879-1960) include correspondence concerning the operation of APVA properties at Jamestown in the mid-twentieth century.
The papers of Philip Lemont Barbour (1898-1980) include research notes for his historical writings on the settlement of North America. Most articles, clippings and notes concern people associated with Captain John Smith. Correspondents include Lawrence W. Towner, 1960-1967, and representatives of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, 1964-1969. There is also some printed material (mostly copies) dating back to 1603. Inventory available in library.
Philip Barraud (1757-1830) was a physician who lived in Williamsburg from 1782 to 1799, when he moved back to Norfolk to be head of the Marine Hospital. Subjects of letters include a trip to Jamestown, yellow fever epidemics in 1800 and 1821, and the War of 1812. Chronological card inventory available. Originals are in the Tucker-Coleman Collection, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg.
Reference: Thomas J. Wertenbaker,
Prominent businessman and civic leader, of Richmond, Va., who served as vice-president of the U.S. Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission and as a board member of the Jamestown Foundation. Correspondents discussing the Jamestown Festival of 1957 include Francis Lewis Berkeley, Frank Learoyd Boyden, Thomas Bahnson Stanley, Earl Gregg Swem, and Conrad Louis Wirth.
James Blair (d. 1743) was appointed commissary of the Bishop of London and minister of Jamestown Church in 1689 and rector of Bruton Parish Church in 1710. He was instrumental in founding the College of William and Mary and served as its first president. Papers include biographical material, correspondence, sermons, and a copy of Blair's commission as commissary of the Bishop of London in Virginia. Inventory available in library.
Political papers from Breeden's career in the Virginia House of Delegates and the State Senate constitute the bulk of the material. Included are papers relating to Breeden's work on the Jamestown Festival Commission.
Burrell emigrated from Siberia to Chesterfield County, Va., as a child. As an adult she was a school teacher and journalist until her marriage. Among her papers are manuscripts of unpublished children's books set in historic Virginia locations. Titles include "Chanco," "The Maid of Jamestown," and "Rural Retreat."
Burwell was stationed on Jamestown Island with the 14th Virginia Infantry. His letter to his brother describes the quality of rations the layout of the island, its fortifications, and the number of men stationed there.
Circular, 1901 February 12, of the Jamestown Tercentennial Committee of the Business Men's Association of the City of Williamsburg, Va., requesting support for a national celebration, 1907 May 13, of the tercentennial anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va. The circular was issued by authority of John S. Charles, H. Denison Cole, B.D. Peachy, William T. Roberts, J.B.C. Spencer, Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Bears engraving of Jamestown, Va.
Original in Boyle Papers 39 miscellaneous - Item 3, "An Account of Vjirginia," Archives of the Royal Society of London.
Includes superintendent's monthly reports, park history files, land records and deeds, photographs, maps, and architectural drawings for both Jamestown and Yorktown since the establishment of Colonial National Historical Park in 1930.
A literary account of Bacon's Rebellion, written shortly after the event and usually attributed to John Cotton (fl. 1660-1678) of York and Northampton counties. It includes references to Bacon's use of women at Jamestown to protect his supporters from the opposition. The manuscript was published several times in the nineteenth century.
Cronin was a member of 1st N. Y. Mounted Rifles and served as provost marshal of Williamsburg, Va. The manuscript contains background information on Confederate defenses and the Battle of Williamsburg (1862), but it is mainly an account of Williamsburg under Union occupation. Cronin re-visited the town in 1901 and recorded his impressions of that trip. Subjects covered include Jamestown Island, the Vest mansion, slavery, and male and female spies. Original at New York Historical Society.
Subjects mentioned include Robert Beverley, Sir Henry Chicheley, a fire at Jamestown, the tobacco riots of 1682, and Lord Culpeper's desire to return to England. From the Dartmouth Papers, Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford, England.
The papers contained in this collection date from 1812 to 1918. They include family diaries, speeches and essays about the Confederacy during the Civil War, newspapers and booklets, and various legal documents and certificates. Of particular note are Camilla Frances Loyall's first hand accounts of Norfolk during the Civil War, and its capture by General Wool and the Union in 1862. This collection contains some materials from the 1907 Jamestown Exposition.
Includes a letter, dated 16 January 1907, from Robert Alexander Lancaster, Jr. (1863-1940) of Richmond to Daniel regarding the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the Jamestown Exposition of 1907.
A lawyer in Louisville, Ky., and New York, Davie collected legal documents and land records relating to England and Virginia. Among the papers are an indentured servant agreement (1627), orders to pay money owed (1660-1665), and land patents and deeds (1679-1777) in several Virginia localities, including Jamestown. Letters (1709-1825) concern business affairs, Indian attacks against the Virginia militia, the removal of forces in the Continental Army from the Southern Department, the sale of coal, and the sale of tobacco. Unpublished description available.
Davis (1907-1981) was professor of American literature at the University of Tennessee. Papers are chiefly correspondence compiled in the course of researching
Printer's copy with author's corrections. This historical novel was published by Garrett & Massie, Richmond, Va., in 1957.
The collection contains the business, political, and family papers of E. Griffith Dodson, clerk of the House of Delegates (1936-1962), and his son E. Griffith Dodson, Jr., member of the House of Delegates (1948-1954). The 350th Anniversary Commission's tour to England in 1955 and the British goodwill mission to the Jamestown Festival are frequently mentioned.
Fernstron, who served as the Swedish Vice-Consul in Norfolk, discusses Sweden's participation in the Jamestown Exposition and the arrangements for the visit of Prince Wilhelm.
Family, personal and business papers of three generations (Williamsburg and Norfolk, Va.) focussing primarily on Dr. John Minson Galt (1819-1862), pioneer in mental health treatment, including extensive papers of Mary Jeffery Galt, co-founder of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities which was instrumental in saving Jamestown Island.
Gatchell was a naval officer. Manuscripts (1900-1901), typescripts (1880-1933), publications (1881-1957), and cartoons (1884-1942) deal with cotton expositions held throughout the southern United States from 1881 to 1937, including an exposition held at Jamestown. Inventory available in repository.
Dr. Goodwin was rector of Bruton Parish Church and the principal force behind the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in the 1920s and 1930s. His records include a file on Jamestown Island, which contains correspondence (1928-1934) concerning the disposition of property belonging to Louise Barney.
Gregory compiled this material in 1931-1934. It includes maps of the Jamestown area, research notes, transcriptions of land patents, and lists of early Virginians, 1607-1704.
Lawyer; banker; entrepreneur; and genealogist, of Richmond, Va. Papers include photographs, map, newspaper and magazine articles, essays, and correspondence relating to archaeological discoveries made at Jamestown, Va.
John Lesslie Hall (b. 1856) was Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. Papers include biographical material, speeches, notes concerning Bruton Parish Church and churches at Jamestown, and a small amount of correspondence. Inventory available in library.
Confederate passes for civilians from Halifax County, Va., to visit Jamestown Island.
James Barron Hope (1829-1887) practiced law and was commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk, Va. Known primarily for his poetry, he served as the official poet of the 250th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement. Papers (chiefly 1847-1887) include manuscript poems and Hope's address at the Yorktown Centennial. Inventory available in library.
Notes, collected articles, and photographs concerning the history and archaeological excavations of Jamestown and Green Spring, and colonial artifacts.
Notes on Tidewater, Va. colonial churches including Jamestown, gathered by J. Paul Hudson, U. S. National Park Service curator and member of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg.
The Hughes papers range in dates from 1767 to 1950 with the bulk of the papers falling between 1860 and 1938. The collection includes the correspondence of Robert M. Hughes and his relatives; drafts of Hughes' biography of General Joseph E. Johnston; Hughes' historical writings; business papers; political papers; photographs; scrapbooks and memorabilia, including some materials from the 1907 Jamestown Exposition.
Assumed to be the will of Robert Hunt, minister at Jamestown with the first settlers in 1607. A different version was printed in the
Elizabeth Hogg Ironmonger (1891-1985) was a genealogist. Papers contain genealogical data on numerous families. Also included is a map of the Jamestown Exposition grounds in Norfolk, Va. Inventory available in library.
This collection contains assorted reports, pamphlets, magazines, newspaper articles, fliers, brochures, programs, etc. relating to Hampton Roads history and the early history of Old Dominion University. Material of importance is a compilation of articles, speeches, and editorials of Louis Jaffe, Alice's husband, correspondence and legal documents of Captain Samuel Davis from the early 1800's, and material relating to the construction of a house in Virginia Beach, built in 1936 for Colonel Henry L. Rice, Alice's father. Also contains memorabilia from the 1907 Jamestown Exposition.
Reports, correspondence, and notes concerning administrative details at Jamestown, ca. 1930s-1950s.
Reports, field books, notes, correspondence, photographs, maps, architectural drawings, and miscellaneous material, primarily of the archaeologists who excavated Jamestown and Green Spring. Major excavations were 1934-1936, 1937-1941 under J. C. Harrington, 1948-1949 under J. C. Harrington, and 1954-1956 under John L. Cotter.
Reports, miscellaneous documents, and souvenir publications concerning the celebration of Jamestown anniversaries, including the Tercentennial in 1907, the Festival in 1957, and other commemorative events.
The Jamestown Corporation was responsible for two of Paul Green's outdoor dramas,
Documents in this exhibit relate to Virginia history and were used in the 1907 Exposition. Includes Confederate travel passes, land grants, and letters from noted Virginians.
Consists of 21 photographs that depict the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, the tercentennial of the settlement at Jamestown in 1607.
Includes correspondence, written notes from interviews, and transcripts of documents concerning Jamestown's history from 1607 to the early twentieth century, but primarily concerning the seventeenth century.
Records of a Jamestown farm leased by L. M. Beebe from Louise J. Barney. Includes correspondence, an indenture, promissory notes, and receipts, with references to crops, business operations, wharfage, tourism, charter boats, and the APVA. Collection guide and inventory available at the repository.
Papers include promotional literature advertising the site as a tourist attraction; an engraving of the landing at Jamestown; a print (1828) depicting the first legislative assembly in America (taken from Goodrich's
Includes photocopies used in the preparation of
The Jamestowne Society was founded by George Craghead Gregory in 1936 for descendants of stockholders in the Virginia Company and the descendants of those who owned land or who had domiciles on Jamestown Island prior to the year 1700. Papers include correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of meetings, lists of seventeenth-century inhabitants of Jamestown, and lists of members. The collection also contains papers of George Craghead Gregory. There is biographical material about Gregory as well as his correspondence; drafts of articles written by him about Jamestown; photographs and negatives of Jamestown buildings and maps; plats of lots around Jamestown; copies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maps of Jamestown; twentieth-century maps of Jamestown; and navigation charts of the James River near Jamestown. There are two works compiled by Gregory:
Contain materials, 1936, relating to the Jamestowne Society including the constitution; lists of officers, members, and eligible ancestors for admittance to membership; invitations; and application forms for membership.
Correspondence and reports relating to the production by the Film Production Service of the Virginia State Board of Education of a motion picture film keyed to the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Virginia in 1957.
Correspondence and reports relating to the status of Jamestown Festival Park following the official termination of the Jamestown Festival in 1957.
Johnstone, serving with the Continental Army in Virginia, describes the battle of Green Spring Plantation and the damage caused by the British occupation in and around Jamestown and Williamsburg.
Anonymous account of travels to Jamaica, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. The author was a French Catholic, probably an agent of the French government. He was in Virginia from April to June, when he visited Norfolk, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, and Jamestown. Included in his account are descriptions of weather, geography, architecture, religious customs, and crops, as well as observations on the colonists' reaction to the Stamp Act. French with English translation. Source of this copy unknown. Transcribed in
Early papers are those of the Ludwell family of Green Spring, including Philip Ludwell I (b. 1638?), member of the Governor's Council (1675-1687); Philip Ludwell II (1672-1727), member of the House of Burgesses for Jamestown (1697) and for James City County (1698-1699), and member of the Governor's Council (1702-1726); and Philip Ludwell III (1716-1767), member of the House of Burgesses for Jamestown (1742-1749), and member of the Governor's Council (1752-1760). Later papers are those of the Lee family. Unpublished description available.
Lee agrees with Page that military matters should take precedence over governmental, and that the country should be better prepared for war. Asks Page to recommend "the most vigorous attention to the cannon foundry on Jamestown [Island]." Hopes the powder mills and saltpeter works are not neglected.
These materials were gathered as a result of family research and participation in various hereditary organizations, including the Jamestowne Society. Genealogical items cover the Butts, Claiborne, Delaware, Harrison, and Lewis families. The collection also includes information on the hereditary societies. Guide available.
Report written for Religion 349, College of William and Mary Department of Religion, by David D. McKinney, Mary E. Keen, Elvira A. DeGiorgio, and Walter Philipp. Included is "Jamestown Church at Historic Jamestown, Virginia."
Mann served as the official photographer of the Jamestown Exposition of 1907.
Newspaper clippings relating to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Manning was the landscape architect for the exposition.
Includes maps, surveys, and plats of Jamestown, the James River, and James City County, mainly describing the division of lands during the seventeenth century. There are also a study (1907) for road and monument locations on Jamestown Island, prepared for the APVA; a plan (1900) for excavation and revetment of the island; a drawing (ca. 1903) of building foundations discovered on the "third ridge" of the island; an overlay (n.d.) of Rochambeau's 1781 map of the Jamestown vicinity; and a map (n.d.) of the James River near Jamestown, describing troop positions during a 1781 confrontation between Lafayette and General Cornwallis.
John Masefield (1878-1967) was an English poet, author, and scholar. He was appointed poet laureate in 1930. Papers include correspondence between John Masefield and Marguerite Osborne, editor of the
This collection consists mainly of letters (1851-1882) to Edward McDermed, constable of Roanoke County, Va., concerning his mercantile business and his application for the railroad mail service. Also included is correspondence (1861-1865) of Confederate soldiers stationed at Jamestown Island, including R. F. Kefauver (42nd Regiment), Oliver H. P. McDermed, Charles Lewis Anthony, and an unidentified soldier. Inventory available in library.
The material in this collection dates from the 1950's and 1960's. The material consists entirely of historical and civic information about the Hampton Roads area, historical figures, and local industries. A particular emphasis is on the Virginia colonies and early settlers. This collection includes course materials, newspaper and magazine articles, maps, photos, booklets, and pamphlets.
Collection includes correspondence, 1872-1907, of Mary Washington Ball (Minor) Lightfoot of Richmond, Va., in part while serving as treasurer of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and involved with the restoration of Jamestown Island, Va. Correspondents include William Leal (regarding a cemetery at Jamestown, Va.) and Lucy (Ambler) Mason (concerning the Ambler family's ownership of property at Jamestown, Va.).
This collection, which was assembled by members of the Morecock family of Williamsburg, contains papers relating to the history of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Included are photographs, pamphlets, Christmas cards, postcards, and woodcut prints depicting sites such as the church tower at Jamestown. There are also souvenirs of the Yorktown Centennial and the Jamestown Exposition of 1907.
Myers (d. 1943) was an Oregon state legislator and public servant whose positions included president of the State Commission for the Jamestown Tri-Centennial Exposition of 1907. Papers contain material from the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Jamestown Tri-Centennial Exposition, as well as personal correspondence, some Oregon state documents, and a large collection of photographs. Inventory available in the library. Finding aid published in
The papers of many twentieth-century governors include files pertaining to Jamestown, its preservation, and its administration. Documents range from financial reports and correspondence to press releases. These papers are particularly notable in the years surrounding anniversary events. Finding aids available in repository.
This collection contains papers of the Crowder and Phillips families of Lunenburg and Mecklenburg counties in Virginia. Included are letters (1861-1865) written by William H. Phillips while serving in the 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment on Jamestown Island, at Chester, Va., and near Farmville, Va. Inventory available in library.
The journal concerns Randolph's activities as Surveyor General of Customs primarily in Virginia and Maryland, but also including travels to the colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Contains information on the shipment of tobacco to England and the tobacco fleets, commerce in the Chesapeake Bay region, Scottish traders to Virginia, seizure of ships for customs violations, smuggling, the supervision and discipline of colonial customs officials, conducting audits (particularly at Jamestown, Va.), and the difficulties of enforcement of the Navigation Acts. Includes frequent mentions of Governor Sir Edmund Andros and the Council of Virginia, and of numerous customs officials in the colony.
Includes scrapbooks about the Huguenot Society and about Jamestown.
List of variations between the King James-British Museum manuscript of Rolfe's
Brochures, guidebooks, maps, and other ephemera relating to travel or description of places and hotels in Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia, including William D. Chesterman's
Professional papers of Parke Rouse, journalist and historian, including clippings, correspondence, notecards, photographs, generated in part by his Sunday feature articles and by his popular history books. Parke Rouse served as executive director of the Jamestown Festival.
This formal statement, prepared for Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State, was formerly part of an extensive correspondence between Sherwood and Williamson now located in the Public Record Office. Several of Sherwood's letters have been published in the
Unsigned manuscript journal chronicling the events leading to the Siege of Yorktown, October 19, 1781. Mentions the arrival of French generals Lafayette and de Grasse and of George Washington at Jamestown, and of the Continental Army at the James River. Records the number of dead and wounded. Gives details of the British surrender.
Includes mainly business correspondence between William Harrison Smith, APVA superintendent and postmaster of Jamestown, and Ellen M. Bagby of the APVA, plus correspondence with Elbert Cox of the National Park Service and Ellen Harvie Smith of the APVA; includes monthly general reports, financial reports, salary lists, tax forms, soil report certificates, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
An engineer, Dandridge Spotswood of Petersburg, Virginia, collected abstracts, extracts, and transcripts of documents concerning the history of Virginia and of the United States Many early letters were written from Jamestown and describe life there. Finding aid in repository and at
Include a small section of printed and ephemeral materials commemorating the Jamestown centennial celebration of 1906-1907.
The collection includes correspondence (1875-1930) of William Glover Stanard (1858-1933), historian and genealogist of Richmond, and related records concerning his involvement with the APVA, the restoration of the Jamestown church, and the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Unpublished description available.
The Stonega Coke and Coal Company was a large southern Appalachian bituminous coal producer with mines in Virginia and West Virginia. It was incorporated in New Jersey in 1902 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1910. The records are fragmentary between 1902 and 1910 but substantially complete after 1930. Some items deal with the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. An unpublished finding aid is available at the repository. Records are closed for twenty-five years from the date of creation.
Streeter was a retired blacksmith involved in the research of iron styles and iron technology and also in the restoration of historic structures. The collection includes photographs and working drafts of Streeter's articles and book, Professional Smithing, as well as some research notes and materials. Folder 17 contains technical drawings and sketches of hardware artifacts found at Jamestown. Guide included in collection folder. Literary rights are retained by the Yellin Foundation.
William Carter Stubbs (d. 1924) was a native of Gloucester County, Va. He later resided in Alabama and Louisiana, eventually becoming state chemist and geologist of Louisiana. Papers consist mostly of correspondence and genealogical data collected by Stubbs and his wife. Also included are papers concerning the Louisiana exhibit at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. Inventory available in library.
Earl Gregg Swem (1870-1965) was Librarian of the College of William and Mary. He compiled about forty finding lists and bibliographies, was managing editor of the
The Tazewell collection includes materials dated from 1935 to 1994. It includes correspondence, newsletters, press releases, meeting reports, and other papers relating to the Norfolk Historical Society, Virginia History Federation and the Friends of the Boush-Tazewell-Waller House. Also included is research material related to various aspects of Norfolk history, and index cards of contacts and organizations.
Family, personal and professional correspondence of St. George Tucker (1752-1827) of Williamsburg including extensive papers of his granddaughter, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman, co-founder of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities which was instrumental in saving Jamestown Island.
Personal, professional, and political correspondence of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and his son, Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932), and scattered papers of earlier members of the Tucker and Powell families in Virginia. Tucker correspondence, beginning 1843, concerns the law practice of father and son and other litigation in Virginia, as well as politics, campaigns, and legislation. Papers also concern expositions at St. Louis, San Francisco, and JamestownUnpublished description available.
This collection contains the papers of Lyon Gardiner Tyler (d. 1935), his wives Anne Baker Tucker Tyler (1860-1921) and Sue Ruffin Tyler (d. 1953), and his descendants. Lyon Gardiner Tyler served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was president of the College of William and Mary (1888-1919). Papers include personal correspondence and correspondence relating to the American Historical Association, the APVA, Colonial Williamsburg, the Jamestown Exposition, and the Virginia Historical Society. There are manuscript volumes of poetry and scrapbooks of newspaper clippingsInventory available in library.
Tyler (d. 1935) founded the
Include minutes of the executive committee; attendance and financial reports; and miscellaneous items concerning events in the celebration.
Created by and a 1954 act of the General Assembly, the Commission worked to coordinate the Jamestown Festival through exhibits, events, research, and restoration. Records describe the activities of the Committee, including efforts to improve roads around Jamestown, invitation lists and travel arrangements for events, publications, souvenir manufacture and sales information, and financial data.
Carter tells Ambler that he has money due him from Robin's and Burwell's replevin bond, and he will obtain the interest on their other bond next month. Asks Ambler if he received his money from Mr. Cary.
The collection consists of Civil War letters, originals and photocopies, from Confederate seaman George Weber to his younger brothers, Louis and James. Among events described are engagements involving ironclad vessels in the vicinity of Jamestown, Mulberry Island, and Newport News, Va.
Chiefly the papers of Rebecca (Yancey) Williams, including correspondence and other materials reflecting the activities of the Jamestowne Society during Williams's tenure as historian.
A study of the early settlements of Jamestown (Va.), Roanoke Colony (N. C.), and the story of Pocahontas. The author includes information on the discrepancies surrounding the death and burial site of Pocahontas. Also includes copies of photographs, maps, and table of contents.
The collection contains letters from John A. Williams of Company D of the 10th Virginia Heavy Artillery Battalion (CSA) to his sisters, Mary R. Williams (b. 1845) and Lucy J. Williams (b. 1849), of Prince George County, Va. Topics in the letters include camp life at Jamestown Island and near Richmond, family news, and brief descriptions of military operations in Maryland and VirginiaUnpublished description available.
Included are writings, including an unfinished work, "The Great Adventure: Jamestown, Virginia"; and essays concerning William Byrd II and African Americans.
Three letters describe the landing of two vessels between Cape Charles and Cape Henry, meetings with colonial leaders and planters, encounters with Indians, a visit to Jamestown, and exploration of the Chesapeake Bay. These letters have been transcribed and annotated in
Yonge was an army engineer who worked on flood control projects and navigational improvements. He was interested in excavations at Jamestown and at Williamsburg and in archaeological projects throughout Virginia. Included is correspondence, early twentieth-century photographs of ruins and excavations at Jamestown, land patent abstracts, other notes concerning Jamestown, and printed material.Inventory available in library.
Bibliography: 93-97.
Includes bibliographical references: 99-131.
Text previously published as National Park Service Archeological Research Series,no. 4 (ENTRY 142).Bibliography: xlv-xlix. Includes index.
Bibliography: leaves 73-78.
Bibliography: v. 2, leaves 603-616.
Despite close to a century's worth of archaeological investigations at Jamestown, little is known about the actual layout of the town, or the manner in which it was developed. Jamestown's legendary failure has served only to emphasize the unique nature of the tobacco plantation economy and its incompatibility with English settlement patterns, while the site's archaeological remains have served as static relics of America's quintessential frontier town. Yet the archaeological traces of Jamestown provide evidence of a far more complex past. Virginia elites, while promoting the tobacco economy, strove also to develop Jamestown, holding culturally influenced expectations of the wealth to be had from speculative development, emulating the architecture, regulations, and layout employed in English and Irish towns, and experimenting with industries which were proving successful in new towns within England. While the century witnessed vast economic, technological, social, political, and religious changes taking place in England, Virginia's leaders and settlers kept pace with these trends. In spite of environmental constraints, the demands of the regional tobacco economy and the emerging world system, as well as the presence of alternative Native American and African cultural models, Virginia's seventeenth-century leaders continued to model their development efforts after those employed in Britain. To understand Jamestown's archaeological expressions, and in particular the presence of abandoned industries, rowhouses, and the abundant use of brick, it is imperative to consider the broader cultural context within which the site's planners, speculators, and occupants were operating and interactingBibliography: 336-70.
Published with a new preface and an index: New York, Garland Publishing, 1989; xxiv, 264 pp.
An ethnographic model of socio-cultural change which the author uses to explain English adaptation to the seventeenth-century Virginia frontier. Archaeological data from Jamestown is used to examine cultural patterns. The result is the "frontier model," an interaction of a variety of factorsBibliography: 444-77.
Bibliography: 113-14.
Includes bibliographical references, leaves 51-56.
Selected Roanoke and Jamestown writings dominate this study of the form of early Southern writing, which proposes that form has ideological implication. Jamestown texts suggest that duplicating the English social structure will fail because that structure cannot adapt to the complexities of American experience. Overall, the texts show a tendency to comedy at times of severe cultural stress.
Bibliography: 89-98.
An overview of archaeology at Jamestown, using the ethnohistorical approach. Polk finds that the archaeology at Jamestown varied over time, depending upon administrative designs and current historical research trends. Also included are a significant summary of past research trends and directions for future work at JamestownBibliography: 183-96.
During the first decades after the Revolution, the original settlements at Jamestown and Plymouth came to be appreciated by American authors as cornerstones of the nation, foundations of American institutions and ideals. Indeed, most of the literature written before the Civil War about Jamestown and Plymouth seeks to advance the myth that the nation began with the heroics of John Smith and the Pilgrims. By the mid-nineteenth century, the patriotic spirit of the literature was often tempered by the realization that the ideals and achievements of the colonial past could not be easily assimilated with the values and objectives of the American present. As the Civil War drew nearer, American writers became preoccupied with the tragic aspects of Jamestown and Plymouth, generating a surprisingly strong impression of a nation disturbed by, as it was proud of, its colonial beginningsBibliography: 497-519.
Examines a number of the ante-bellum reformulations of the story of Pocahontas, and discusses how it came to be used by literary and visual artists to address major cultural, racial, and gender-related issues.
Includes bibliographical references: 139-143.
Includes bibliographical references, leaves 176-182.
Bibliography: 70-73
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1970; Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1994.
The publication of this item was prompted by the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.
"Published in commemoration of the Jamestown Exposition."
Bibliography: 73-74.
Includes three accounts of Bacon's Rebellion with descriptions of the siege and burning of Jamestown:
1) T. M. [Thomas Mathew], "The Beginning, Progress and Conclusion of Bacons Rebellion in Virginia in the Years 1675 and 1676," 1705, Library of Congress. Mathew, a merchant-planter in Northumberland County, represented Stafford County in the 1676 session of the House of Burgesses and was an eyewitness to many events he described. His narrative has been printed in several sources (see Andrews, p. 14). 2) ["The History of Bacon's and Ingram's Rebellion," 1676], Virginia Historical Society. The unknown author evidently was a Virginian who was familiar with the course of the rebellion and obtained some of his evidence as an eyewitness. Some leaves of the document are missing from the beginning and the end. Two versions have been printed in Massachusetts Historical Society publications (see Andrews, pp. 45-46).
3) "A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late Rebellion in Virginia, Most Humbly and Impartially Reported by His Majestyes Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Affaires of the Said Colony," 1677, two copies: Public Record Office (C.O. 5/1371) and Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. The report was signed by commissioners John Berry and Francis Moryson. The volumes in which the copies are to be found at the PRO and at Cambridge also contain copies of many letters and papers written or received by the commissioners.Reprint: Bowie, Md., Heritage Books, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Tells the story of the English settlement of Virginia from the perspective of both the colonists and the Indians. Powhatan is seen as a strong leader who used the English presence to enhance his own position among his people. John Smith was the clever commander who saved Jamestown from starvation and kept peace with the Indians. Pocahontas was a link between the two culturesBibliography: 41-42.
Banvard's National Series of American Histories, [vol. 3].
Bibliography: 483-93
Reprint: Nendeln, Liechtenstein, Kraus Reprint, 1976. 2 vols. in 1 (xviii, 524 pp.) Includes indexes.
Bibliography: [283]-299.
A sympathetic biography which finds Smith to have been basically honest in his writings, though prone to exaggeration, in keeping with the inflated and exuberant style of his timesBibliography: 493-527. Includes index.
Written at the request of the Board of Supervisors, Brunswick County, Virginia, in observance of the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown Bibliography: 75-76.
The first history of the colony by a native Virginian. The four sections deal with the first settlement of Virginia, natural resources and commerce, the Indians, and the present state of the colony. Louis B. Wright, in his introduction to a 1947 reprint (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), describes Beverley's account of the early period as sketchy and inaccurate and the weakest portion of the work. His treatment of the Indians, however, is sympathetic and realistic. In a revised edition published in 1722, Beverley softened his comments on personalities and made an effort to restrain his satirical tone.
Bibliographical references: 133-43.
A collection of primary sources, many not previously printed, intended "to introduce students to some of the raw materials basic to an understanding of both seventeenth-century Virginia and the problem of creating a society in a new world." There is no index to help identify specific references to Jamestown, but Jamestown was at the center of public life in the colony throughout the centuryChapter headings include The Beginnings, The Evolution of Self-government, The Structure of Society, Bound Labor, Tobacco and Trade, Indians and Whites, Upheaval and Rebellion, and Life in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.
Bibliography: 375-400. Includes index.
Bibliography: 298-305Blanton also wrote
Includes bibliographical references.
Final drawings and structure reports on twenty-five major buildings or complexes of buildings excavated at Jamestown between 1935 and 1956, as requested in National Park Service purchase orders 76359 and 76360.
Contents include "The Labor Problems at Jamestown, 1607-18," by E. S. Morgan; "The Image of the Indian in the Southern Colonial Mind," by G. B. Nash; "A Changing Labor Force and Race Relations in Virginia, 1660-1710," by T. H. Breen; and "Politics and Social Structure in Virginia," by B. Bailyn.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
The
Attempts to show that a "historic wrong was done our patriotic founders by James I, his commissioned officials, and licensed historians--both in the evidences of the Court party preserved by the crown and in the histories licensed under the crown." John Smith is presented as one of the crown's licensed historians, who distorted the true intent of the Patriot party to plant a popular form of government in the New World.
A history of Virginia and the Virginia Company of LondonReprint: New York, Russell & Russell, 1969.
A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which Resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen, Disclosing the Contest between England and Spain for the Possession of the Soil Now Occupied by the United States of America; Set Forth through a Series of Historical Manuscripts Now First Printed Together with a Reissue of Rare Contemporaneous Tracts, Accompanied by Bibliographical Memoranda, Notes, and Brief Biographies [Title page]Includes index.
A tentative list of the descendants of Pocahontas, a list set forth in a combined volume (printed in 1994 and reissued in 1997) which includes reprints of the three books
New York: Macmillan & Co.,
New York:
Bibliography: 11-13.
Includes indexes1st ed. (1984) and 2nd ed. (1987) by Donna Quaresima and Susan Bruno (Manteo, N.C.: Storie/McOwen Publishers); 5th ed. (1993) by Michael H. Bruno and Annette McPeters (Richmond: Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Prepared under the supervision of I. E. Spatig, as authorized by the Board of Supervisors of Brunswick County, July 23, 1906. Compiled by Marvin Smithey On cover: Jamestown Exposition, 1607-1907.
Bibliography: 46
Xxii, 571 ppIncludes bibliographical references, and an index.
Illustrated by Bessie Thorpe Lyle.
Revised and largely rewritten from the author's
4 vols.
In six parts. I. A short history of the discovery of that part of the world. II. The manners and customs of the original inhabitants. III. Of the Spanish settlements. IV. Of the Portuguese. V. Of the French, Dutch, and Danish. VI. Of the English.
See: Wyndham Robertson,
Ends with the victory at Yorktown, 1781
Enlarged from the author's
Campbell, an Ohio lawyer and politician, was a native of Augusta County, Va., and an amateur historianIncludes a "Sketch of the History of the Church in Virginia" (pp. 287-310).
Bibliography: 35-36
Reprint: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1970.
Includes bibliographical references.
An archaeological report prepared for the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission and the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission.
Includes some discussion of a visit to the Jamestown FestivalDetached from
Compiled and edited under the auspices of the Jamestown Exposition Committee byE. B. Jacobs, secretary, Chamber of Commerce.
Prepared by James A. Servies in collaboration with J. T. Baldwin, Jr.
Covers mainly the colonial period of Virginia history.
Contains information concerning the products of Virginia, the condition of the colony, and its relations with the Indians.
The report includes all recorded exploration at Jamestown up to 1958. It documents the archeological work at Jamestown, provides basic field data on the architecture, artifacts and community structure, and summarizes these data so as to indicate the way of life which was developing in Virginia during the seventeenth century. Excavations revealed aboriginal remains, a Confederate fort, several churches, two cemeteries and a large number of dwellings and outbuildings. A summary discusses life at Jamestown and how it changed under the conditions of the New World. There are appendices on ceramics, other artifacts, and floral and faunal remains. [Author]Bibliography: 195-99. Includes index
Folded map in pocket: Archeological Base Map of the Site of "James Towne.".. (ENTRY 1039)Second edition: Courtland, Archeological Society of Virginia, 1994
This report became the author's Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1959 (ENTRY 66).
An illustrated report of archaeological finds at Jamestown, concentrating on artifacts, and devoting little space to featuresBibliography: 98-99
Reprint: 1962.
Bibliography: 182-83. Includes index.
Reprint: Gloucester, Mass., Peter Smith, 1964.
Includes bibliographical references, a critical essay on authorities (417-33), and an index.
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1970; Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.
This article originally appeared September 29, 1957, in
Reprinted by permission from
Includes a historical sketch of Samuel Mathews, an extended memorial poem, and an account of events at the Jamestown Exposition.
Some of the chapters in the present volume were included in a book called
Most of the half tones used in illustration are loaned by the
See the author's
Includes "Life of John Robinson": [59]-72.
320 pp.; illusThis biography of the colonial official and translator of Ovid includes extensive discussion of Sandys' tenure as Treasurer in Virginia from 1621 to 1625. Sandys, member of a family prominent in Virginia Company affairs, was sent to Virginia to collect revenues, oversee policies toward staple crops, and encourage pursuits such as mills, iron works, silk production, and glassmaking. He was in Jamestown during the massacre of 1622 and the transition from Company to royal administrationBibliography: 287-309. Includes index
See the author's Papers (ENTRY 21).
The map is dated 1878.
Jamestown is dealt with briefly.
The five articles in this book ... originally appeared in
Contains portions of two letters from Lord Howard of Effingham to William Blathwayt written in 1686 and 1687. "Keepsake...for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the Institute of Early American History and Culture on the occasion of their meeting, May 9, 1964, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography: 61-64.
Catalogue to an exhibition (23 January-18 July 1982) celebrating the tricentennial of Norfolk, Va. The texts consist of a detailed introduction and essays covering various eras and developments, including the Jamestown Exposition of 1907
Bibliography: 201-4.
Reprint of "two English newspaper [i. e., pamphlet] accounts of the rebellion...Strange news from Virginia, and More news from Virginia" printed for William Harris, London, 1677. With reproductions of original title pages. "Published in honor of the 1957 Jamestown 350th anniversary celebration...under the aegis of the Tracy W. McGregor Library at the University of Virginia."Bibliographical note: [39]-40.
Focuses on Virginia from Sir Walter Raleigh to the onset of the French and Indian War, but also includes material on the other southern coloniesIncludes bibliographical references, and an index.
Items relating to Virginia:Volume 1, no. 6, [Robert Johnson] Nova Britannia (1609); no. 7, [Robert Johnson] The new life of Virginea (1612); no. 8, [Thomas Mathew] The beginning, progress, and conclusion of Bacon's rebellion (1705); no. 9, Mrs. An. Cotton, An account of our late troubles in Virginia (1676); no. 10, William Berkeley, A list of those that have been executed for the late rebellion; no. 11, A narrative of the Indian and civil wars in Virginia, in the years 1675 and 1676;Volume 2, no. 6, Extract from a manuscript collection of annals relative to Virginia; no. 8, A perfect description of Virginia (1649);Volume 3, no. 1, [Virginia Company of London] A true declaration of the estate of the colonie in Virginia (1610); no. 2, [William Strachey, ed.] For the colony in Virginea Britannia: Lawes divine, morall and martiall, etc. (1612); no. 5, Virginia Company of London, A declaration of the state of the colonie and affaires in Virginia, with the names of the adventurors (1620); no. 6, Virginia Company of London, Orders and constitutions (1619,1620); no. 7, Nathaniel Shrigley, A true relation of Virginia and Mary-land, with the commodities therein (1669); no. 10, [Henry Norwood] A voyage to Virginia (1649); no. 11, [Edward Williams] Virginia, more especially the south part thereof, richly and truly valued..., with addition of the discovery of silkworms, with their benefit (1650); no. 12, John Clayton, Letter...to the Royal Society (1688); no. 13, [Samuel Hartlib] The reformed Virginian silk-worm (1655); no. 14, John Hammond, Leah and Rachel, or, The two fruitful sisters Virginia, and Mary-land (1656); no. 15, [Robert Greene] Virginia's cure, or, An advisive narrative concerning Virginia, discovering the true ground of that churches unhappiness, and the only true remedy (1662)Reprint: Gloucester, Mass., Peter Smith, 1963.
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography: 71-72.
Brief historical sketches and traditions of Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown and their vicinity; illustrated with a map and photographs.
The Colonial Dames prize essay, 1908, University of RochesterBibliography: 6.
Reasons for the erection of a Baptist memorial building at the Jamestown Exposition.
The unveiling of a historical marker at JamestownIncludes bibliographical references.
Bibliography: 241-43. Includes index.
Little is known of the identity of the authors of the two promotional tracts reproduced in this small volume. The first identified himself only as R. G. and stated that his role in the Virginia adventure was limited to the authorship of this single document
The first four chapters, dealing with the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia from its establishment to the massacre of 1622, are all that Dr. Goodwin had written prior to his death in 1924. The remainder of the volume consists mostly of lectures and articles selected to give at best a sketchy account of the history of the Church to about 1919
Bibliography: [343].
An introduction and guide for visitors. Opens with a brief history of the three communities, followed by short discussions of sites and monuments.
A recommendation of the Virginia settlement, written in the form of a sermon.
Contents include: A note of the shipping, men, and provisions sent to Virginia...1619; A declaration of the supplies intended to be sent to Virginia...1620; The names of the adventurers, with their severall summes...paid to Sir Thomas Smith; The names of the adventurers, with their several sums paid...to Sir Baptist Hicks; Orders and constitutions, partly collected out of His Maiesties letters patents, and partly ordained upon mature deliberation, by the treasuror, counsell and companie of Virginia, for the better governing of the actions and affaires of the said companie here in England residing: Anno 1619 and 1620; By His Maiesties Counsell for Virginia...fifteenth November 1620.
Published in conjunction with the Jamestown Festival.
Includes Ralph Lane's letters to Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Philip Sidney; [John White's drawings]; [Roanoke Island]; [Ralph Lane's plans]; Captain Newport's discoveries in Virginia; A relatyon of the discovery of our river from James forte into the maine, made by Capt. Christopher Newport and...written...by a gentleman of the colony, 1607; The description of the now-discovered river and country of Virginia; A brief description of the people. The life of Lane is found later in the volume, 317-44
Reprint: New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1971. Includes index.
Illustrated by James MacDonaldBibliography: 184-85.
New York: Da Capo Press,Original title page has imprint: Printed at London by Iohn Beale for William Welby dwelling at the signe of the swanne in Pauls Church yard, 1615. The discourse is followed by three letters: (1) from Sir Thomas Dale, Jamestown, June 18, 1614; (2) from Rev. Alexander Whitaker, Virginia, June 18, 1614; (3) from John Rolfe, giving his reasons for marrying Pocahontas. Earlier reprint, with the title
"Prepared as part of the Jamestown glassmaking study being carried on jointly by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior and Glass Crafts of America."Includes bibliographical references: [48]Revised edition published with title A Tryal of Glasse (ENTRY 199).
A revision of
Originally written in 1697 as a special report for the recently established Board of Trade, describing conditions and institutions in the colony just prior to the removal of the capital from Jamestown to WilliamsburgFirst published: London, John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1727
Reprint: Charlottesville, Dominion Books, a division of the University Press of Virginia, 1964
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references: 32
Previous editions published under title
Bibliography: 112-13
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1983; Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., for Clearfield Co., 1993.
"The National Park Service cooperating with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities."Bibliographical references: 54
First published in 1949.
Presented under the auspices of the Jamestown Festival Commission of 1957 in cooperation with the Armed forces of the U.S.
Bibliography: 189.
Includes index.
A bibliography of resources dealing with John SmithIncludes index.
Contents include: Articles agreed on and concluded at James Cittie in Virginia [1651], vol. 1, 560-61; Articles for the surrendering of Virginia to the subjection of the parliament of the commonwealth of England [1651], vol. 1, 562-63; An act of indempnitie made att the surrender of the countrey [1651], vol. 1, 563-64; [An act prohibiting trade with the Barbados, Antego, Bermudas, and Virginia, 1650], vol. 1, 636-38.
Published pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed on the fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eightTitle on spine: Hening's Statutes at largeEach volume includes a list of Governors of Virginia for the period covered by the volumeContents by volume: 1. 1619-1660; 2. 1660-1682; 3. 1684-1710; 4. 1711-1736;5. 1738-1748; 6. 1748-1755; 7. 1756-1763 and Proclamations of 1754 and 1763;8. 1764-1773; 9. 1775-1778; 10. 1779-1781, including Resolutions and State papers; 11. 1782-1784, including Resolutions and State papers; 12. 1785-1788; 13. 1789-1792
Facsimile reprint: Charlottesville, Published for the Jamestown Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, 1969.
Bibliography: 79. Includes index
Various reprints, including Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1992.
Reprint: Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton, 1916.
Contents include "The Forefathers of Jamestown."
From manuscripts preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England. [Title page]Includes "The Living and Dead in Virginia, Feb. 16, 1623" and "Muster Rolls of Settlers in Virginia, 1624."Published in New York in 1880
Reprint: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968.
A photocopy of a computer-produced manuscript.
15 pp.; illusIllustrations by Sidney E. KingIncludes bibliographical referencesReprint from the
Illustrated by Sidney E. King. Photographs by Thomas E. WilliamsBibliography: 78.
Events which occurred from the time the colonists left England, December 20, 1606, until they landed at Jamestown, May 13-14, 1607. Based on contemporary sources. [Title page]Illustrated by Sidney E. King.
Bibliography: [905-22].
Bibliography: 77-78.
Bibliography: [14].
A collection of viewsPublished by B. E. Steel, Jamestown, Va.
Includes bibliographies.
On cover: Compliments of Virginia Funeral Directors Association, October 8-10, 1907.
Adopted by the Board of Directors at Norfolk, September 17, 1904.
Describes the recently renovated and expanded exhibition galleries at Jamestown Settlement. Officers, staff, and donors are listed.
Names of officials of the Jamestown Exposition Company appear on the cover.
Prepared by the Department of Congresses and Special Events, Jamestown Exposition.
Compiled and edited by W. H. Bright Includes indexes.
Recipes from
Includes bibliography.
"Published to commemorate the 350th anniversary of John Rolfe's first harvest, 1612-1962."First edition: [1962?]
Contains the names of those early Jamestown settlers whose service or residence have been approved by the Society Genealogist and the Membership Committee. Proof of descent from a qualifying settler is required for membership. Absence from the register does not mean an ancestor is not qualified as a basis for membership. The list is a starting point, and other settlers are expected to be proved in the future.
Bibliography: 83
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1970; Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1994.
The muster of 1624/25, with histories of families which remained in Virginia for three generationsIncludes bibliographical references, and an index
Previous editions: 1956, 1964.
A continuation of the author's
A Virginia Company adventurer, at a London meeting, encourages his associates in the enterprise to continue their efforts in "this earthly Paradice."The text is also published in Force's
There are chapters on Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, but the principal focus is on the Jamestown settlement and Virginia in the seventeenth centuryBibliographical note: 248-51. Includes index.
While formal literary production was small, there was a surprising amount of writing among seventeenth-century Virginians, including firsthand accounts, promotional literature, correspondence, and public recordsIncludes bibliographical references, and an index of personsOriginally published in 1946 as one of the
Includes index.
Only Part I, which relates almost entirely to Virginia, was published.
Illustrated by Orin Bullock.
Genesis of the Virginia Education Association, in the
Paintings by Sidney E. King. Text by J. Paul Hudson. "This album is a facsimile of one presented to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II of England during the 350th anniversary of Jamestown in 1957."
The Introduction and List of Records appear in Kingsbury's
The 1905 publication also includes an "Authorities" section (pp. 207-14), with listings of "Printed works which contain the publications of the Company or reprints of its records and are cited in the preceding List of Records" and "Printed works cited in the footnotes of the Introduction."
Transcriptions of many of the extant documents relating to the Virginia Company, excluding those pre-1616 items published by Alexander Brown in his
Includes bibliographical references.
A study of the association of meaning and place and its relationship to the preservation of historic landscapes. Colonial National Historical Park, one of four case studies, is seen as not having fully realized a unified concept, partly because of the dominance of Colonial Williamsburg in the local tourist marketBibliography: 197-208. Includes index.
An analysis of the historiography of the debate over the rescue story. Starting in the 1860s, scholars began to question Smith's published accounts of the Pocahontas incident, and a controversy ensued, with Henry Adams becoming Smith's most famous detractor. Lemay concludes that the incident did in fact occur and that Adams's original attack on Smith, written during the Civil War, was a South-baiting polemic which suppressed pertinent evidenceBibliographical references: 123-36. Includes index.
Bibliography: 293-304. Includes index.
Photography by Robert Llewellyn; introduction by Hugh DeSamper.
From the original painting, by H. Brueckner; engraved on steel by John C. McRae.
Bibliographical references: [187]-231. Includes index.
Based on a study of the colonial church buildings of Tidewater Virginia, the results of which were first published in the
A Supplement to
Compiled by William A. Murphy, secretary of the Board.
Vi, 59 pp.; mapA case study in historiographic genealogyIncludes bibliographical references, and an index.
Bibliography: 592-619
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Bibliography: 86-89
Various reprints, including: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1987; and Baltimore, reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995.
Bibliography: 11
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1981; Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1995.
Includes the French family.
Reprint: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966, with a "Digested Index and Genealogical Guide" (1910), by Jennings Cropper WiseAppendix no. 2 (vol. 2, pp. 420-25): "Extracts from a Pamphlet Reporting the Proceedings of a Jubilee at Jamestown in Commemoration of the Second Centenary Anniversary of the Settlement of Virginia, May 13, 1807."
Includes index.
Includes indexes.
Bibliographical Note: 171-74.
Drawings by Joseph Low.
[21] pp.; illus.
On cover: Jamestown Exposition souvenir
While attempting to explain the origins of "the American paradox," the marriage of slavery and freedom, this volume also compiles a history of colonial Virginia. A chapter entitled "The Jamestown Fiasco" describes the first ten years of the colony, when the settlers "seem to have made nearly every possible mistake and some that seem almost impossible."A Note on the Sources: 433-41. Includes index.
Includes a bibliography, and an index.
Bibliographical references: 79-80.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index
Original edition: New York, Knopf, 1976.
Edited by Frances E. Burns.
Includes index.
An account of the Virginia Company based primarily on copies of its records which were transcribed at the time of its dissolution and which eventually were obtained by the Library of CongressIncludes index
Reprint: New York, Burt Franklin, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index
Facsimile reprint: Bowie, Md., Heritage Books, 1996.
A paper for Freolae Club, Nashville, Tenn. TypescriptBibliography: [31-36].
Pictures by Douglas Goraline.
Includes index.
Prepared by Cuyler Reynolds, director.
Prepared by Cuyler Reynolds, historian.
The text of the 1963 edition (New York: Knopf) with a new preface and afterwordArtifacts and other evidence from archaeological excavations are used to give a rather informal account of colonial Virginia. One full chapter is devoted to Jamestown, with additional references to industry and crafts therePrincipal Sources: 333-41. Includes index.
Interweaves contemporary accounts with descriptions of excavations and artifacts to reveal the motivations of the first adventurers to Roanoke and Jamestown and tell the story of how the English presence persisted in spite of bad luck, bad management, and bad relations with IndiansBibliography: 459-67. Includes index.
Contains abstracts of records in Virginia Land Office patent books 1 through 5. Mrs. Nugent, custodian of the Land Office from 1925 to 1958, had planned a series of five volumes covering the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Records in patent books 6 through 14 were abstracted, but they were not published until the Virginia State Library issued volumes 2 and 3 in 1977 and 1979 respectively.The introduction to volume 1 includes a list of those Ancient Planters known to have come to Virginia by the end of 1616, survived the 1622 massacre, and appeared in the 1624/5 muster as then living in Virginia.Several reprints: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1963-1991.
Volume 2 contains abstracts of records in patent books 6, 7, and 8; volume 3 covers patent books 9 through 14
In 1994 the Virginia Genealogical Society published volume 4: 1732-1741 (patent books 15 through 19) and volume 5: 1741-1749 (patent books 20 through 28). The Society plans to publish volumes 6 and 7 covering patent books 29 through 42 (1749-1774).
Comprehensive coverage of exhibits, events, awards, and statisticsIncludes indexes.
George W. Summers, orator.
Second edition: London, 1741, 2 vols.; reprint: New York, A. M. Kelley, 1969.
"Compliments of Colonial Dames of America in the state of Virginia."
Contents include: The beginning of America; Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life.
Bibliography: 200-201.
Prepared by James H. Lambert, executive officer.
First published in 1625 in vol. 4 of
Includes brief accounts of the fortifications at Jamestown in the 1690s and indications of ministers there in the early eighteenth centuryIncludes bibliographical references, and an index
Reprint: New York, AMS Press, 1969, as vol. 1 of
The first section of the volume has separate chapters on firearms, ammunition and equipment, edged weapons, and armor during the age of colonization and exploration, 1526-1688. Included are references to equipment sent to Jamestown and items uncovered in recent excavationsBibliography: 337-45. Includes index.
Includes index.
6 microfiches; plates, illusPory was in Virginia from 1619 to 1622, serving as Secretary of the Colony and Speaker of the first General Assembly, and again in 1624, as a member of a royal commission of inquiryIncludes bibliographic references, and indexes of the book and the microfiche supplementMicrofiche supplement (6 sheets, 393 pp.): "Letters and Other Minor Writings."The contents of the supplement are listed in the Appendix of the book.
An appeal for funds for the Robert Hunt Memorial, to be erected at Jamestown, 1907. Issued under the authority of the committee of the Protestant Episcopal Church, dioceses of Virginia and West Virginia. Preface signed: William W. Old, treasurer.
Illustrations by William de Leftwich DodgeAlso published in 1911 by Grosset and Dunlap.
Published under the direction of the Committee in charge of the Pulaski County exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition of 1907.
Includes bibliographical references.
Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death. More since added, his also perused, and perfected. All examined, abreviated, illustrated with notes. Enlarged with discourses, adorned with pictures, and expressed in mapps. In fower parts. Each containing five bookes. [Title page]Reprint: Hakluyt Society Publications, extra ser., vols. 14-33; Glasgow, 1905-1907.
Material on Virginia appears in chapters V and VI of The Eighth Booke: America, pages 937-57, as follows:Chap. V: Of Virginia I. The Preface, Sir Walter Raleighs Plantation, and the Northerne ColonieII. Of the Southerne Plantation and Colonies, and Many Causes Alledged of the Ill Success Thereof at the First III. Of the Soile, People, Beasts, Commodities and Other Observations of Virginia IIII. Of the Present Estate of Virginia, and the English There ResidingChap. VI: Of the Religion and Rites of the Virginians [Indians] I. Of the Virginian Rites, Related by Master HariotII. Observations of Their Rites by Captaine Smith and Others III. Of the Sasquesahanockes, with Other, and Later Observations of the Virginian RitesAn index is appendedEarlier editions: 1613 and 1614
The fourth edition (1626) is generally found as volume 1 or volume 5 of the author's
A brief final chapter discusses the motives of the English investors in the Virginia Company Bibliography: 493-97. Includes index.
Randolph began collecting materials for his
Much of the early part of the work consists of passages taken more or less verbatim from William Stith's history of Virginia... The editor has also added those portions of John Marshall's
Published for an exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society, October 1994 through April 1995
Includes bibliographical references: 52-56.
Papers originally presented at the 5th Symposium on Virginia Archaeology, sponsored by the Council of Virginia Archaeologists, Williamsburg, May 10-11, 1991
Contents include: Seventeenth-century Virginia and its twentieth-century archaeologists, by Carter L. Hudgins; Private fortifications in seventeenth-century Virginia: A study of six representative works, by Charles T. Hodges; A scant urbanity: Jamestown in the seventeenth century, by Kathleen Bragdon, Edward Chappell, and William GrahamIncludes bibliographical references.
illus., mapsArgues that town planning played an important role in colonization and discusses the forms and designs used in planning colonial towns. Included is coverage of efforts to encourage the development of Jamestown and other Virginia townsBibliography: 321-28. Includes index.
illus., map.
Bibliography: 178-96. Includes index.
"...a presentation of excerpts and selections from records, laws, accounts, and descriptions made by men who lived in, or were associated with, 'James Towne'". [Introduction]Bibliography: 35-36
Previous edition: Washington, National Park Service, 1944.
...with Biographical Sketches by Wyndham Robertson, and Illustrative Historical Notes by R. A. BrockIndex published separately: Burns,
For corrections and additions, see Brown and Myers,
Sam Robinson was the Sexton at the Jamestown church.
Bibliography: 75-77
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1980; Baltimore, For Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.
Earlier printings: 1)
Bibliography: 363-87. Includes index.
A description of the Indian culture encountered by the Jamestown colonists, based mainly on archaeology and such early accounts as those of John Smith, William Strachey, Henry Spelman, George Percy, and Gabriel ArcherBibliography: 194-206. Includes index.
Bibliography: [2].
Introduction signed by James Taylor Ellyson.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Includes bibliographical referencesReprint: Spartanburg, S.C., Reprint Co., 1973.
Translation in
A study of the militia's role in the military defense and internal affairs of Virginia in the seventeenth century, including confrontations with the Indians, two raids by the Dutch navy, and Bacon's RebellionBibliography: 141-48. Includes index.
Typescript.
Bibliography: 84-86. Includes index.
Includes index
Photocopy of typescriptBibliography: 13.
Includes bibliographical referencesOriginal edition: 1990.
Essays based on papers read at the Symposium on Seventeenth-Century Colonial History, a commemorative event sponsored by the Institute of Early American History and Culture to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, Williamsburg, April 7-12, 1957
Contents include: The moral and legal justifications for dispossessing the Indians, by Wilcomb E. Washburn; Indian cultural adjustment to European civilization, by Nancy Oestreich Lurie; Social origins of some early Americans, by Mildred Campbell; Politics and social structure in Virginia, by Bernard Bailyn; Seventeenth-century English historians of America, by Richard S. Dunn.Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Smith's works which deal with Virginia include1)
Edward Arber's introduction to this compilation of Smith's works includes the texts of several "Illustrative Documents," such asa) "A Relatyon of the Discovery of Our River, from James Forte into the Maine..., Sincerely Writen and Observed by a Gent. of Ye Colony" [possibly Gabriel Archer], covering the period from May 21 to June 22, 1607;b) "Observations Gathered out of 'A Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English, 1606', Written by That Honorable Gentleman, Master George Percy," taken from Samuel Purchas's
A complete and annotated edition of all Smith's works, including some omitted by Arber. Includes a biographical directory of Elizabethan and Jacobean persons with some connection to Smith, a brief biography of Smith, a facsimile of the original printing of the True Relation, and an index
Bibliography (prepared by David B. Quinn): vol. 3, 393-433.
Books 2 and 3 are reprints, with variations, of
Facsimile edition: Cleveland, 1966, with an introduction by A. L. Rowse and bibliographical notes by Robert O. Dougan.
The second part has a special title page:
From Smith's
Running title: Newes from VirginiaReprints: 1) Boston, Wiggin and Lunt, 1866; with an introduction and notes by Charles Deane; 2) New York, A. Lovell, 1896; American History Leaflets, vol. 2, no. 27; 3) Smith,
Illustrated by Michelle Dye.
Illustrated by Jerry Ellis.
Cover title: Souvenir guide, Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, 1607-1907.
A brief history of glassmaking in America from the first factory at Jamestown to the present. Examples from the Corning Museum of Glass illustrate the textIncludes a bibliography.
Original sources: 171-81.
Includes index.
Other versions: 1) N.d., 20 pp.; 2)
The first history of the early years of the colony based on extensive documentation. Stith, a minister and future President of the College of William and Mary, relied mainly on John Smith's writings and the copies of Virginia Company records then in the possession of William Byrd. The emphasis, therefore, is on the years 1607 to 1609 and 1619 to 1624, when the narrative ends. Stith champions John Smith and supports the Sandys-Farrar faction of the Virginia Company against the villainous Sir Thomas Smith and James IThe appendix is separately paged and has its own title page: "An Appendix to the First Part of the History of Virginia, Containing a Collection of Such Ancient Charters or Letters Patent, As Relate to That Period of Time..." Included are the three charters of the Virginia Company and the Company's July 1621 "Ordinance and Constitution...for a Council of State and General Assembly."Reprint, with a new introduction by Darrett B. Rutman: New York, Johnson Reprint Co., 1969.
Edited by David H. FlahertyReprint of the 1612 edition, which is also published in Force's Tracts (ENTRY 172).
"The text is intended to be an exact transcript of the Princeton MS, with original spelling and punctuation retained."The title page from the manuscript: "The First Booke of the First Decade, Conteyning the Historie of travell into Virginia Britania, expressing the Cosmographie, and Commodities of the Countrie, together with the Qualities, Customes, and Manners of the naturall Inhabitants, in part gathered, and obteyned, from the industrious and faithful Obseruations, and Commentaries of the first Planters and elder Discouerers; and in parte obserued, by William Strachey gent, three yeeres thether imployed, and sometyme Secretary, and of Counsaile..." Includes a vocabulary of the Powhatan dialect of the Algonquian language spoken by the Indians in the Jamestown region. Also includes an index
Published previously (1849) by the Hakluyt Society as
Compiled principally by William B. Cocke, one of the Sussex County Commissioners to the Jamestown Exposition On cover: Jamestown Exposition, 1907.
Indexes seven Virginia historical publications: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; William and Mary Quarterly; Tyler's Quarterly; Virginia Historical Register; Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, Antiquary; Hening's Statutes at Large; and Calendar of Virginia State PapersReprint: Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1965.
Indexes seven Virginia historical publications: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; William and Mary Quarterly; Tyler's Quarterly; Virginia Historical Register; Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, Antiquary; Hening's Statutes at Large; and Calendar of Virginia State Papers1180 pp.
1. A selected bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699, by E. G. Swem and J. M. Jennings; 2. A Virginia chronology, by W. W. Abbott; 3. John Smith's map of Virginia, by B. C. McCary; 4. The three Charters of the Virginia Company of London; 5. The Virginia Company of London, by W. F. Craven; 6. The first seventeen years, Virginia, 1607-1624, by C. E. Hatch, Jr.; 7. Virginia under Charles I and Cromwell, by W. E. Washburn; 8. Bacon's rebellion, 1676, by T. J. Wertenbaker; 9. Struggle against tyranny, by R. L. Morton; 10. Religious life of Virginia in the seventeenth century, by G. M. Brydon; 11. Virginia architecture in the seventeenth century, by H. C. Forman; 12. Mother Earth; land grants in Virginia, by W. S. Robinson, Jr.; 13. The bounty of the Chesapeake, by J. Wharton; 14. Agriculture in Virginia, by L. Carrier; 15. Reading, writing, and arithmetic in Virginia, by S. M. Ames; 16. The government of Virginia in the seventeenth century, by T. J. Wertenbaker; 17. Domestic life in Virginia in the seventeenth century, by A. L. Jester; 18. Indians in seventeenth-century Virginia, by B. C. McCary; 19. How justice grew, Virginia counties, by M. W. Hiden; 20. Tobacco in colonial Virginia, by M. Herndon; 21. Medicine in Virginia, by T. P. Hughes; 22. Some notes on shipbuilding and shipping in colonial Virginia, by C. W. Evans; 23. A pictorial booklet on early Jamestown commodities and industries, by J. P. Hudson. (Most of these titles have separate entries in this bibliography.)
Reprint: Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1994.
Reprint: New York, Da Capo Press, 1968.
By George N. Clark [and others]. "Reprinted from the
Includes bibliographies, and an index.
The first two stories are set in Jamestown. One describes a twentieth-century sighting of early settlers; the other tells of the "curse tree" or "mother-in-law tree" that separated the graves of James Blair and his wife Sarah Harrison in the Jamestown cemetery.
At head of title: Jamestown Edition, 1607-1907
Compiled and edited by T. Edgar Harvey.
Discusses briefly Edward Travis, the immigrant, and his descendantsIncludes index.
Class trip under the direction of Helen M. Carpenter and Margaret O'Connell.
Published by advise and direction of the Councell of VirginiaThe text is also published in Force's
Bibliography: 175. Includes index.
Includes index
First edition: Richmond, Whittet & Shepperson, 1900.
Contents: Observations by Master George Percy, 1607; A True Relation, by Captain John Smith, 1608; Description of Virginia and Proceedings of the Colonie, by Captain John Smith, 1612; The Relation of the Lord De-La-Ware, 1611; Letter of Don Diego de Molina, 1613; Letter of Father Pierre Biard, 1614; Letter of John Rolfe, 1614; Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619; Letter of John Pory, 1619; Generall Historie of Virginia by Captain John Smith, 1624, The Fourth Booke; The Virginia Planters' Answer to Captain Butler, 1623; The Tragical Relation of the Virginia Assembly, 1624; The Discourse of the Old Company, 1625.
A discussion of selected myths in American historiography, including those involving the settlement of the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies and the character of Abraham Lincoln First edition published in 1920.
George B. Cortelyou, chairman.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Bibliography: 83-86.
On cover: Interpretive prospectusConsultant: Gordon Hilker.
On cover: Interpretive prospectusConsultant: Gordon Hilker.
Cover title: International Naval Review, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 8-17 June 1957.
"Planning Phase...10 January 1957 to 30 April 1957" and "Operational Phase...1 May 1957 to 17 June 1957" are bound with
A Note on the Sources: 191-200
Includes index.
Includes index.
Edited by Parke Rouse, Jr.
Volume 1 (1680-1699) contains records from the period when the Council was meeting at Jamestown. In 1680 the Council began to hold separate sessions for the transaction of different kinds of business. For Council records prior to 1680, see
Volume 1 (1680-1714) contains records from the period when the Council was meeting at Jamestown. In 1680 the Council began to hold separate sessions for the transaction of different kinds of business. For Council records prior to 1680, see
In 1680 the Council began to hold separate sessions for the transaction of different kinds of business. See the
Second edition: Richmond, Virginia State Library, 1979.
Includes index.
The transcript of John Pory's proceedings was prepared from a copy of the original manuscript in the Public Record Office (C.O. 1/1, folios 139-154). Pages of the original manuscript are reproduced in facsimile. Each page of the facsimile faces the printed transcription of that page. The letters
Joint resolution of the 83d Congress to establish the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission: 25-26
Paul Crockett, chairman.
Lewis A. McMurran, Jr., chairmanIncludes bibliographies.
Lewis A. McMurran, Jr., chairman.
Volumes 1-3 (1619-1702) contain records from the period when the Burgesses were meeting at Jamestown Volumes 10-13 were edited by John Pendleton Kennedy.
Contents include: The proceedings of the first assembly of Virginia, held July 30th, 1619; Lists of the livinge & the dead in Virginia, February 16, 1623; A list of those killed in the massacre of March 22, 1622; A briefe declaration of the plantation of Virginia duringe the first twelve yeares, when Sir Thomas Smith was Governor of the Companie, & downe to this present tyme, by the Ancient Planters nowe remaining alive in Virginia, 1624; A list of the number of men, women and children inhabiting in the several counties within the colony of Virginia, 1634; A letter from His Majesty, Charles the Second, to Sir Wm. Berkeley, Gov. of Va. acknowledging the receipt of a present of silk..., 1648; A list of the parishes in Virginia in 1680
Reprints: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964 and 1973; Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1989.
With an introduction by Samuel M. BemissContents: The first charter, April 10, 1606; Articles, instructions and orders, November 20, 1606; Ordinance and constitution, March 9, 1607; The second charter, May 23, 1609; Virginia Council instructions to Sir Thomas Gates, May 1609; Virginia Council instructions to Sir Thomas West, 1609/10; The third charter, March 12, 1612; Virginia Company instructions to Sir George Yeardley, November 18, 1618 (sometimes called "The great charter"); Virginia Company instructions to Governor and Council in Virginia, July 24, 1621; Treasurer and Company, an ordinance and constitution for Council and Assembly in Virginia, July 24, 1621
Reprint: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., for Clearfield Co., 1993.
Jamestown Festival edition.
Reprinted from the
On cover: 350th anniversary Jamestown festival guidebook.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
"Essay on the Sources": 167-75
Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Bibliography: 63-64
Reprint: Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1993.
Edited by Louis B. Wright.
Reprint: New York, Da Capo Press, 1970
Also appears in Kingsbury,
At head of title: The Virginia Jamestown Exposition CommissionBibliographies interspersed.
Authorized by the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors as a contribution to the Jamestown Festival Bibliography: 64.
Bibliographical essay: 59-60
Reprints: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1979; Baltimore, for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994.
Critical Essay on Authorities: 317-38
Reprint: St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press, 1977.
Includes bibliographical referencesReprint: Baltimore, Clearfield Co., 1994.
Extracts from colonial writings, with comments by the compilerIncludes bibliographical references: 77-78
Reprint: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1973.
Describes the settling of Plymouth and Jamestown. Compares their social and economic development during the colonial periodBibliography: 226-30. Includes index
Contributing editor, Janet ElliottFirst edition: [New York], Benziger, [1972]. Teacher's edition: [1973].
First edition: Published by the Polish American Congress in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Poles in America, Jamestown, Virginia, Sunday, September 28, 1958.
Reprints: 1)
Four small samples of promotional writings by adventurers to the New World, in support of English colonization. Included are a 1608 letter from Peter Wynne at Jamestown, an excerpt from Alexander Whitaker's Good Newes from Virginia, and a 1624 letter by John Smith presenting a copy of his Generall Historie of Virginia to the Society of Cordwainers of London.
On cover: Jamestown Festival, 1607-1957
Sponsored by the Woman's Auxiliary of Patrick Henry Hospital, Newport News, VaThe 11th edition was published in 1963.
Published by order of the Board of Supervisors for distribution at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. Compiled by H. M. Heuser.
Includes bibliographical referencesFirst edition: Richmond, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 1904Tercentenary edition: Richmond, Hermitage Press, 1907
Originally published as a series of articles in the
Guide to historic sites along route of march; issued for coast defense personnel participating in field exercises as part of Yorktown celebrations in 1913.
The newsletter of the foundation which oversees Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.
Title varies.
Volumes include indexesVolume 45, covering 1739, was published in 1994
Most volumes have been reprinted by Kraus Reprint(Volumes 2-4, 6, and 8 are concerned with the East Indies, China, Japan, and Persia.)
Devoted to the interests of the Jamestown Exposition. No numbers were issued August-December 1904 and February-March 1905. A notice in the number for May 1909 states that the periodical will be continued under the title Virginia Bulletin.
Irregular.
An annual publication which describes the historical background, goals, and major discoveries of the APVA Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project. The significance of discoveries related to the first Jamestown settlement call for rapid publication, but the lack of analysis time render a necessarily incomplete report with tentative conclusionsIncludes bibliographical references, and selected reading lists.
"Virginia Seashore, Featuring Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Ocean View, Cape Henry, and Other Historic Points in Norfolk Area, Including Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown and Old Point Comfort, Va., Nag's Head, Manteo, Kill Devil Hills, and Roanoke Island, N.C., and Containing the Official Virginia Seashore Hotel and Cottage Directory, with Rates, etc."
Though the Norfolk sponsors of the 1907 Jamestown Exposition generally failed to realize their goals, they developed a unique form of southern boosterism in the early twentieth centuryIncludes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
An analysis of references to Poles in America, which concludes that Michael Lowick of Virginia was not a Pole but an Englishman, and that there is no evidence that Poles were brought to Jamestown to make glass.
A letter written in 1606 by William Turner, later a deputy of Samuel Argall, sheds light on Argall's early career Includes bibliographical references.
Martin outlived all others of the original 1607 settlers and probably died about 1632 at Brandon, his estate on the James River Includes bibliographical references.
The first blacks who came to English America arrived in Virginia in 1619, but they were not slaves. Their lives and relationships to the white community are discussedReprinted from
While the English who settled Virginia were disorganized and unwilling to work together, the early Bermuda colonists kept order, worked hard, and prospered. Black slaves were treated better in Bermuda than in Jamestown. The strong Puritan influence on the islands helped maintain discipline and encouraged family valuesIncludes bibliographical references.
Examines colonial records and ships' logs to get a sense of the total population of Jamestown during the "starving time." Neglected in the history of this tragedy is the condition of nearby colonies and the composition of the depleted ranks of colonists. Records show that only thirty miles downriver another colony existed in good condition.
Conjecture on the character and look of the settlement at Jamestown in the seventeenth century.
Includes a critical essay on the sources of information.
Personal reminiscences of a visit to Jamestown.
Reprinted from
Describes sites and facilities at Jamestown, Jamestown Settlement, and Yorktown.
A major synthesis of all work on seventeenth-century posthole buildings in the Chesapeake. This pattern of impermanent architecture is related to historical trends (the tobacco economy and the high mortality rate) and the artifactual record of conspicuous consumption. The authors conclude that the short life span of early southerners tended to make them live for the day, spending their money for material possessions rather than a permanent dwellingIncludes bibliographical references, and an appendix of excavated sites; among the sites are six earthfast structures on Jamestown Island dating from the second to the fourth quarters of the seventeenth century.
A transcription of the probate copy of Rolfe's will, which was written originally in Jamestown on March 10, 1621. It contains little to support the traditions associated with Rolfe's name. A short biographical sketch precedes the transcription.
Describes a series of nearly 200 postcards produced for the 1907 exposition by the Jamestown Amusement and Vending Company.
Jamestown played a role in early African-American history. The slaves who inhabited Virginia were from the Spanish Caribbean. Various events will pay tribute to 375 years of this history on August 20 and 21, 1994. Information is provided on related sites in the area.
Bibliography: 251.
Reprinted from the
Discusses the use of archaeological remains in the museums and historical institutions of Jamestown and Williamsburg. Jamestown Settlement provides an account of the origins of the town and reveals the technology of the indigenous Powhatan Indians.
Brief descriptions of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown are included in a larger account of "15 places that everyone should visit" in America.
Relates Argall's exploits as mariner, fisherman, negotiator with the Indians and the French, Deputy Governor, and focus of accusationsIncludes bibliographical references.
A review of archaeology and architecture at Jamestown.
A brief review of 1956 and 1957 excavations and test trenching.
Pocahontas may not have rescued John Smith, but her triumphant visit to London in 1616 helped to save Jamestown. Although she died of a fever in England, she helped the Virginia Company survive until the value of her husband's tobacco was realized.
Includes bibliographical references.
Explores the long-established "fact" that twenty blacks were delivered to Jamestown by a Dutch ship in 1619.
Jamestown Settlement Museum introduced by founding father John Laydon in film.
The
Includes an announcement of the opening of a new building housing a 100-seat theatre and three exhibition galleries at Jamestown Settlement.
The settlement of Jamestown was plagued by disease, starvation, mismanagement, and idleness.
An overview of efforts to establish potteries in seventeenth-century Virginia.
An account of the efforts of the Virginia Company to keep the colonists supplied with provisions and new settlers.
Discusses Virginians' attitudes toward the idea of black magic through the seventeenth century, including the witchcraft charges against Joan Wright which came before the General Court in Jamestown in 1626
Includes bibliographical references.
A sentimental visit to Jamestown, via Williamsburg, during the tercentennial exposition. Illustrations include photographs of the church tower at Jamestown and exposition buildings in Norfolk.
Published by the Passenger Department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Between 1607 and 1624 typhoid fever and dysentery visited Jamestown in epidemics killing thirty percent or more of the colonists with each onslaught. The Virginia Company did not understand the connection between the estuarine environment and disease. The prevention of disease and death required the abandonment of Jamestown and relocation into healthier areas, which occurred to a greater degree with the dissolution of the Virginia Company in 1624
Includes bibliographical referencesA slightly altered version of this article appears under the same title in
Offers the monopolist-migration model for interpreting the location and early growth of colonial towns. This model stresses the role of political-economic and demographic variables. Various colonial towns, including Jamestown, are analyzed and comparedIncludes bibliographical references.
A comparison of Jamestown and St. Mary's City as seventeenth-century colonial capitals.
Investigates the actions and motivations of both sides.
An exhibit of artifacts from seventeenth-century Virginia are on display at the Jamestown Settlement. Aside from newly-discovered pieces, visitors can also view archaeologists at work at the Colonial National Historical Park.
Describes Pasbyhayes, the "suburb" of Jamestown on the Governor's Land north of the isthmus. Includes a map showing the sites discussed.
Identifies and illustrates iron hinges, keys, locks, and other hardware recently excavated in the New Towne area.
The Negro Development and Exposition Company was chartered to organize an African-American exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition of 1607. Many black leaders opposed a separate exhibit, fearing it would foster segregation.
Discusses the similarities and differences between Jamestown and St. Augustine, the two oldest surviving European settlements in the territory that became the United States. Although the Spanish and English differed greatly in their approaches to colonization, they shared some noteworthy similaritiesIncludes bibliographical references.
A brief history of Jamestown, with descriptions of the "small peninsula" and its ruins. Suggests that the nation provide an enclosure for the church tower and cemetery and a suitable monument to the foundersAn appendix describes the effects of erosion. Off the southern shore about 150-200 paces are "many yards of the palisade erected by the first settlers." On the western shore a "very narrow slip of land," which is flooded at high tide, is the only obstacle to the peninsula becoming an islandA "View of James-Town," facing page seven, is drawn from a perspective off the southwest shore. It includes the church tower, sepulchral monuments, a fence along the shore, and cattle, with two large houses in the backgroundThe article appears in the first and only issue of a magazine published by a professor at the College of William and Mary. The only known copy, with missing cover and torn pages, is held by the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg FoundationReference: Wayne Barrett, "Monsieur Girardin's Prescient Little Magazine,"
Argues that Bartholomew Gosnold played a prominent role in the establishment of the Virginia Company and the Jamestown colony, and that John Smith exaggerated his own contributionIncludes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
Replicas of three ships that brought colonists to Virginia in 1607 are docked at Jamestown Festival Park: the
Describes efforts by the Barneys, the APVA, the U.S. Congress, John Tyler, Jr., and Samuel Yonge to rescue, excavate, protect and preserve the ruins of Jamestown.
Documentation relating to the first statehouse, the foundations of which were located and partially uncovered by Gregory in 1932.
The interiors of lead strips bear maker's marks and dates which can provide important information for dating a structure.
Primarily concerned with describing an interior Indian culture, the Monacan, a people who were less complex than, and a principal enemy of, the Powhatan. Analysis of ethnohistoric texts, and insights derived from archaeology, lead to a different perspective on the context of the Jamestown settlement.
The writings of William Strachey, probably a source for Shakespeare's character Caliban, described the varied reactions of Virginia Indians to Europeans at the Jamestown colony. This diversity of responses among Powhatans and Monacans contributed to the contradictions portrayed in Caliban.
The author explains his approach to the new field of historical archaeology by referencing work at Jamestown.
Pipe stem diameter is used as a dating tool for the first time.
Relies heavily on Jamestown experience.
In order to give visitors an insight into the significance of Jamestown, the author suggests not a reconstruction but a museum, where the visitor can obtain the information that will allow an appreciation of the exposed foundations and ruinsFrom a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C., May 1946.
A retrospective of archaeological projects at Jamestown, including recommendations for further work.
Short review of tiles and their decoration.
Examples of glassworkers' tools were not uncovered during excavations at the Glass House site, but designs for tools to be used in the reconstructed Glass House were based on illustrations in the works of Agricola and BlancourThis article is followed by "Notes on Glass Blowing" (pp. 5-6, 11), which was extracted from Harrington's
Erosion, records that conflict, and contradictory theories all affect archaeologists' ability to find the site of the fort. New anthropological research methods, satellite photography, and other studies may finally reveal the fort's original location Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
Discusses the discovery of traces of a seventeenth-century road leading from the isthmus to a point near the Church. Based on excavations from 1939 through 1948
Includes bibliographical references.
A brief account of Jamestown's role in the American Revolution, as taken from a report prepared by the author in 1941 for the Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, entitled "Preliminary Historical Study of the Lawrence and Beverley Tracts on Jamestown Island."Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
22 (1942): 343-52; platesRobert Sully was a portrait painter in Richmond who visited Jamestown in the fall of 1854. He wrote an account of his excursion in a letter to Lyman Draper and drew sketches of the church tower, a cypress tree in the river, a brick powder magazine, the "Site of the Old Colonial Fort and Magazine," and the ruins of a residence he identified as belonging to the Champion familyIncludes bibliographical references.
An account of the career of Richard Ambler (1690-1766), Yorktown merchant and customs collector for the York River District. In 1724 he married Elizabeth Jaquelin, heiress to a large tract on Jamestown Island. The author includes a brief history of the Ambler family.
The varying details among Smith's three accounts indicate that he had different intentions each time he retold the story of the Jamestown settlementIncludes bibliographical references.
Traces lead production in Virginia from its earliest discovery near Jamestown through the colonial era.
An analysis of the 1624/5 muster in categories such as age, geographical distribution, household size, distribution of servants, and year of arrival Includes bibliographical references.
Depictions of the Jamestown church tower.
Unveiling of William Couper's statue of Capt. John Smith, May 13, 1909.
A study of mold-made terra-cotta pipes, primarily from the St. John's site (St. Mary's City) and Jamestown. The author hypothesizes that colonists made these pipes during economic depressions, when they could not afford the more expensive pipes imported from England.
A review of the members and acts of the first assembly in 1619.
The Colonial Parkway illustrates 175 years of American colonial history through reconstructed communities, historic buildings, and museums. The Parkway stretches from Jamestown Island to Yorktown.
A detailed side-scan sonar survey of the shallow region immediately offshore of Jamestown Island disclosed numerous features. The major feature in the imagery was in an area thought to be a likely location of the 1607 fort. Subsequent investigations retrieved seventeenth-century artifacts but were inconclusive in better identifying the major feature as other than a series of very subtle ridges with no immediately discernible underlying structure.
Reprints and annotates a letter (British Museum Add. Ms. 4437) written to Dr. Nehemiah Grew by John Clayton, a minister at Jamestown from 1684 to 1687.
An overview of Jamestown archaeology since 1934, stressing how archaeology has added to our knowledge of life in early Virginia.
Description of a tombstone in the church at Jamestown, believed to be the site of George Yeardley's burial. The tombstone at one time was ornamented with monumental brasses.
Reprinted from the
Reprinted from the
Jackson was a lawyer in Richmond who founded the Negro Development and Exposition Company for the purpose of constructing an African-American exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition in NorfolkIncludes bibliographical references.
A brief description of early sites, which are "now entirely, or very nearly, submerged in the river."
A brief review of the seventeenth-century history of Jamestown.
Contains the text of a brief letter from Colonel E. T. D. Myers, who was the military engineer at Jamestown Island in 1861.
Describes the "Caart vande Riuier Powhatan" by Johannes Vingboons (ENTRY 910) and speculates on its date and Vingboons' sourceThe three-house symbol on the map at Jamestown, which apparently indicates a fortification, corresponds to the location of the recent excavations of the original fortIncludes bibliographical references.
Describes the life of Captain John Smith prior to his adventures in Virginia's Jamestown colony, as documented in Smith's 1630 book
Includes bibliographical references.
Transcripts of three letters written in Jamestown in 1632 to officials in England. The three letters are from Governor John Harvey, from the Assembly, and from the Governor and Council.
Lists the causes of the epidemic and discusses why it developed at Jamestown but not at Roanoke Island.
Describes sites and facilities at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown.
The first glass blowing factory was in Jamestown in 1608. Casper Wistar in Salem, N.J., in 1739, and William Stiegel in Manheim, Pa., in 1765, established glass factories.
The
Dale's Laws, promulgated between 1611 and 1618, were severe and unprecedented rules for the maintenance of discipline in Jamestown. Long considered a deviation from the common law tradition, Dale's Laws provided severe punishment for those who posed a threat to social order. Penal servitude and black slavery were logical continuationsIncludes bibliographical references.
An analogy between twentieth-century prison camps and the early Jamestown settlement demonstrates the connection between nutritional diseases and such psychological factors as fear and despair. In Jamestown a complex interaction between environmental and psychological factors produced high death ratesIncludes bibliographical references.
Describes Jamestown Rediscovery excavations under the direction of alumni Bill Kelso and Nick Luccketti.
Includes bibliographical references.
Mary Jeffery Galt and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman organized the APVA in 1889. In addition to their efforts in historic preservation, members promoted conservative social values and denounced the modern culture of an industrializing SouthIncludes bibliographical references.
The nation's first statewide historic preservation organization extended modern notions of a preservation society's purposes by acting as a defender of traditional Virginia culture. The APVA championed restoration projects as part of a moral restoration program.
Letters of Lord Cornwallis to General Clinton, including brief descriptions of operations near Jamestown and the Battle of Green Spring in July 1781.
Nicolas Martiau, a Frenchman, was sent to Jamestown in 1620 as a professional engineer. His granddaughter married Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of George Washington.
Discusses early descriptions of the first fort and later theories concerning its location.
An extract from "A Narrative of My Life," by Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke, who served as a lieutenant under Lafayette in 1781. Included is a description of the Battle of Green Spring.
Includes bibliographical references See Mason's book
A brief account of Jamestown Rediscovery project excavations to date.
Legal habit, or attitudes and behavior toward property and ownership rights inculcated by a legal culture, partly explains why the Jamestown settlers generally recognized the right of the Indians to trade the food that they produced. It may also explain why the English could describe, but not appreciate, the Indians' relationship to landIncludes bibliographical references: 59-64.
Thomas Ward is identified as the earliest potter in English North America. Similarities between fragments found at Jamestown and wares produced at Martin's Hundred raise the possibility that Ward produced pottery when he and other Wolstenholme Town inhabitants took refuge on Jamestown Island after the Indian uprising in 1622. It is also possible that apprentices trained by Ward at Martin's Hundred later operated at JamestownIncludes bibliographical references.
Reprinted from the
Includes brief descriptions of Jamestown (p. 25) and its church (p. 22). Hinke provides an extended note about the various Jamestown church buildings.
A continuation of Perry's article in volume 5 (ENTRY 637)Includes bibliographical references.
Uses accounts, sermons, and other literature from the first fifteen to twenty years of the colony to advance the thesis that religion "was the really energizing power in this settlement, as in others."Includes bibliographical references.
Robert Tyndall's 1608 map (ENTRY 907) is significant not only as the first drawn by a Jamestown settler but also as a record of the location of Indian tribes on the James and York rivers.
2d ser., 23 (1943): 101-29
Uses Gabriel Archer's "Relatyon of the Discovery of Our River" as an example of how contemporary accounts can be used to glean ethnological data on the culture of the Indians at the time of their first contact with the colonists.
Among the reasons the first settlers failed to grow the food they needed may be their attitudes toward work and their expectations of the New World. The discovery of tobacco finally started the Virginians working, but it may not have erased completely the early attitudesIncludes bibliographical references.
Subjects honored include the Jamestown Exhibition in 1907.
A review of the seventeenth-century history of Jamestown, with brief comments on the later efforts of Samuel Yonge and the Edward Barneys to uncover the island's past.
Includes bibliographical references.
A brief account of Smith's exploits and writings, with scant attention to his Virginia period. Smith's veracity is held in low regard.
Representatives from Martin-Brandon Plantation were not seated in the first General Assembly in 1619 because John Martin's patent exempted his people from obeying the orders of colonial authorities. Letters of John Martin and George Sandys are transcribed, but they also are available in Kingsbury.
Includes text from documents relating to the transportation of women to Virginia in the period 1619-1621.
A list, "made up from various sources," of vessels arriving at Jamestown between 1607 and 1624.
Gives the text of a speech to the Burgesses at Jamestown, 17 March 1651/52, in which Berkeley argues against the English Commonwealth Parliament's assertion of authority over Virginia.
The Rev. Richard Buck and his family are discussed at some length. There are also entries for numerous other settlers at other sites.
Mentions voyages of Captain Jones to Jamestown between 1620 and 1625. John Pory returned to England in 1622 on Jones's ship
Concerning two shipments of children to Virginia in 1619 and 1620.
Brief accounts of early governors and others, supported by quotations from various sources, many of which are available elsewhere. Letters of Francis Wyatt and John West are significant. A patent of Ralph Hamor is incorrectly attributed to Ralph Warner. A patent of Sir George Yeardley, transcribed in full, is important because the original has been lost.
Captain W. Peirce, Sir George Yeardley, Richard Kingswell and Abraham Piersey are listed as owners of a total of fourteen blacks at Jamestown.
The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation adds a new historic ship reconstruction to its James River site and three new archival exhibits to its Yorktown Victory Center.
An account of archaeological excavations at Jamestown and what they reveal about the British colony established there. Appears as a chapter in the author's
Reexamines documents relating to early Jamestown and questions the nature and location of the early fort.
A large jar excavated at Jamestown in the 1930s is connected to a site three miles upriver, where a concentration of waste shards indicates a seventeenth-century potter might have had a kiln.
Seals on wine bottles excavated in London and in Jamestown are associated with Ralph Wormeley.
Jamestown's founding is examined in light of two settlement models proposed by James E. Vance and Carville Earle. The Virginia Company of London sought to establish a trade center between territory claimed by France and Spain. The Vance model more closely follows the historic realization of the Jamestown settlementIncludes bibliographical references.
Discusses pharmacists and the practice of pharmacy in the British North American settlements of Jamestown, Boston, and Salem, 1602-1690.
An account of the African slave trade from 1619 in Jamestown to the 1850s.
Artifacts, other than tobacco pipes, from Jamestown.
Brief discussion of the author's collection of pipes excavated at Jamestown in the early twentieth century. Includes many decorated bowls and makers' marks.
First publication of a manuscript in the library at Petworth House, Sussex. A copy of the document was presented to the Library of Virginia in 1922.
Brief discussion of objects excavated at Jamestown beginning in 1934, with emphasis on earthenware pottery.
Sketches the history of the
Discusses eight maps of Virginia, from the 1585(?) effort by John White (With?) to Herman B & ouml; & yuml;e's 1825(?) chart. Briefly mentions a few prints and paintings depicting Jamestown.
Chaired by Polk, the session was an oral history of Jamestown archaeology.
Cites references to books sent to the colony at various times, and attempts to identify other books which may have been available before 1624
Includes bibliographical references.
Discusses "Dale's Code," the first code of laws for the colony of Virginia. It was at least nominally in force from the arrival of the first governor under the second charter, Sir Thomas Gates, in May 1610, to the accession of Sir George Yeardley in April 1619.
Anglo-Powhatan relations began with expectations on the part of each group that the other would accept or defer to some of its practices and values. Each counted on some degree of influence over the other, on being able to acculturate the other. Over the course of the first two years, however, leaders on both sides came to recognize how unrealistic were their earliest hopes. That recognition was grounded in the most common arena of contact, the field of trade. Settlers and natives would struggle with each other through five stages of exchange during 1607-1609 before their leaders finally grasped and confronted the critical differences between their peoples. Hindered earlier by a limited understanding of each other's ways, at the moment of deep insight Smith and Powhatan realized that neither could peacefully accommodate the other. Following their last fateful meeting, the relationship between the English and the Indians deteriorated inexorablyIncludes bibliographical references.
Examines three passenger lists and various bookshop accounts, from the archive of the Virginia Company of London (
Previously unnoticed documents among the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge, provide information on the social status and practical skills of the fifty-seven women sent to Virginia in 1621 to become settlers' wives.
Reprinted from The Town Planning Review 34, no. 1 (April 1963): [27]-38
Bibliographical "notes and references": 38.
A review of efforts, principally from 1662 to 1711, to encourage the establishment of towns, or ports, in Virginia, including the development of Jamestown Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
Reprinted articles, including "Jamestown Celebrates in 1907," from the Newport News Daily Press and other periodicals Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Reprinted from the
Reprinted from the
Reprinted from the Iron Worker 37, no. 1 (Winter 1973).
Reprinted from the
Reprinted from the
Describes the exhibit provided by the British government for the Jamestown Festival.
Takes issue with Walter F. Prince's interpretation of the origin of military rule in Virginia as the work of Thomas Gates and Thomas Dale acting on their own volition. The laws posted by Gates upon his arrival were desired by London. Virginia's military regime was one in a series of experiments in governanceIncludes bibliographical references.
Traces the development of Virginia's iron industry from the landing of settlers at Jamestown in 1607 to the end of the American Revolution.
Strachey family history and commentary on William Strachey's literary achievements, as well as speculation about his influence on Shakespeare's
Microcomputer simulations offer new perspectives and make history more accessible to students. The author describes his simulation course on life in the Jamestown colony before 1615.
The first American representative assembly, meeting in Jamestown in 1619, enacted much that was modern in tone.
Brief but well illustrated review of archaeological work at Jamestown since Yonge.
The owners and fate of the Jaquelin-Ambler House.
About the tercentennial exposition of 1907.
A favorable review of Philip L. Barbour's 1986 edition of John Smith's
"Excavations made in 1955 at the site of the third and fourth statehouses at Jamestown were designed to locate the graves under and near the foundations and to discover as much as possible about the area."
An account, based on Percy family papers, of the "highest-born gentleman of the settlement at Jamestown," who served as President and Deputy GovernorIncludes bibliographical references.
Lists all voyages in the Western Hemisphere by ships of the Austro-Hungarian navy and describes the visit of the two-ship Austro-Hungarian squadron to the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition as recorded in the diary of Ludwig Ritter von Hoehnel (1857-1942), the commander of one of the ships, who had gained fame earlier as an African explorer.
Visiting the Jamestown area can help dispel the myths about Pocahontas that are portrayed in a recent motion picture.
Discusses several incidents in Smith's published accounts in an attempt to assess his veracity. Concludes that Smith was not a hero and that he manufactured part of the legendIncludes bibliographical references.
Presents information concerning the musical life of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries in Florida, New Mexico, and Virginia (Jamestown and Richmond), and in Massachusetts in the eighteenth century.
Includes a report of the commissioners and abstracts of other papers in the Library of Virginia.
Includes bibliographical references.
Levels of Kepone found in the livers of white-footed mice on Jamestown Island were significantly greater than levels in mice in an inland control area at the College of William and Mary. These data are the first indicating Kepone contamination of small terrestrial mammalsThe authors published an article by the same title in
Provides transcriptions of manuscripts from the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The total population of James Citty in March 1618/19 was 117 according to these documentsIncludes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
Discusses the limits of ethnohistorical sources in helping to reconstruct the Late Woodland house model in an exhibit at Virginia Beach. The article is followed by an exchange of replies between Errett Callahan and Steve W. Edwards (pp. 97-111). Callahan answers Thurman's criticisms of a 1985 paper written by Callahan. Edwards claims that Callahan compromised the larger goals of Jamestown Settlement's living history exhibit by applying overly exacting standards to the replication of the Indian village there. Callahan suggests ways of achieving greater accuracy without jeopardizing the accessibility and goals of the Jamestown project.
The "other" Larkin Company building designed by Wright was an exhibition pavilion for the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Includes bibliographical references.
Sources from the 1620s suggest that racial prejudice was evident in Virginia even in that very early period after the first arrival of blacksIncludes bibliographical references.
This essay seeks to document the patterns of pre-1622 attitudes and policies, to clarify their causal relation to the massacre, and to show the massacre's impact on English perceptions of the Indian and the resultant colonial policy. [Author's note, p. 57]Includes bibliographical references.
In 1629 a court at Jamestown tried to decide the true sex of an individual who had passed as man and woman. Hall was ordered to wear only men's clothing in the futureIncludes bibliographical references.
Describes early maps of Virginia from De Bry's engraving based on John White to Augustine Herrman's commission for Lord Baltimore. Includes a list of the various states of John Smith's map.
Describes a simulation of the settlement of the Jamestown colony. Students are asked to decide where the colony and fort should be established and to give reasons for selecting or rejecting a particular site.
"The Virginia historical manuscript exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition [1907]...was composed of documents drawn from two sources--the State archives, in the Virginia State Library [Library of Virginia], and the Virginia Historical Society."
Describes Harry C. Mann's career as a professional photographer, starting with the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 and the establishment of his commercial office in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1908. Mentions the international recognition his photographs garnered, and reprints selected photographs (none of Jamestown or the exposition).
Contains the text of Governor Berkeley's account of Bacon's rebellion in a letter dated February 2, 1676/7, to Henry Coventry, one of Charles II's Principal Secretaries of State.
Comparisons were made of the Kepone levels in the livers of several species of vertebrates from Jamestown Island and from a control area at the College of William and Mary. The data confirm that Kepone contamination of the terrestrial ecosystem is extensive.
An exhibition building designed by Wright for the tercentennial celebration in 1907.
Based on documents in the archives of Seville and Simancas, three of which are transcribed. The Spanish ambassador in London kept his government informed about English activity in Virginia, but the Spanish government took no steps to hinder that activity. Also included is a deposition made in 1611 by John Clark, who had been captured by a Spanish expedition sent to explore the Virginia coast.
An account of Robert Hunt's life and his brief tenure as first chaplain of the Jamestown settlement.
A paper read before the Society of Colonial Wars on March 18, 1907.
Mrs. Blow, as chair of the John Smith Monument Committee of the APVA, was seeking support for the monument, though the site and design had not yet been selected.
Paper presented to the Washington and Northern Virginia Company of the Jamestowne Society, December 6, 1964.
Cortelyou was U.S. Secretary of the TreasurySee also: Dawson and Cortelyou,
This article was read as an address to the Virginia Historical Society at its meeting on January 20, 1969. Craven questions conventional portrayals of the seventeenth-century General Assembly as a bicameral legislature with two relatively equal bodies.
The James W. Richard Lectures in History, delivered at the University of Virginia in the fall of 1970 and published in this volume "with only an occasional revision of the text."Includes bibliographical references, and an index.
Dawson was Governor of West Virginia; Cortelyou was U.S. Secretary of the TreasurySee also:
"This Celebration was held under the auspices of the College of William and Mary and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities."
Reproduced from typescript.
Includes "The Settlement at Jamestown" (1882) and "The First Legislative Assembly in America" (1894).
Also published separately and in
An address presented at the 134th annual meeting of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
A paper read before the National Society of Colonial Dames in Michigan, January 6, 1906, by Mrs. Henry F. Le Hunte Lyster.
"An address delivered at the meeting of the General Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 27, 1957."
Library of Congress copy in the Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection has penciled inscription on cover: Giles B. Jackson, Director Genl.; 1907.
At ceremonies commemorating the 750th anniversary of the sealing of Magna CartaBibliography: 17-18.
The Lawrence F. Brewster lecture in historyIncludes bibliographical references.
Contents include speeches delivered at the opening of the Jamestown Exposition (April 26, 1907), before the National Editorial Association at Jamestown (June 10, 1907), and at the Georgia State building, Jamestown Exposition (June 10, 1907).
The Speech and Declaration are interesting not only as an expression of one side of opinion in the great political crisis of 1651, when the change of government in England and the passage of the first Navigation Act were stirring the minds of the Virginians, but, also, as illustrating incidentally some facts as to the condition of the people at and before the time of the speech. [From introductory note]
Photocopy: [Richmond, Library of Virginia, 1987].
Claude A. Swanson was Governor of Virginia. The June 12 address was delivered on Virginia Day at the Jamestown ExpositionThe Virginia Day address was also published in 1912 in U.S. Senate Doc. 948, 62d Cong., 2d sess.
April 10, 1906.
A selection of addresses delivered in connection with the 1957 celebration, including those by Richard M. Nixon and Queen Elizabeth IIWith a foreword by John Melville Jennings.
The speaker, in his presidential address to the Association, reviews the seventeenth-century history of the Jamestown settlement, with emphasis on disease and medical issues.
An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Virginia Historical Society, May 1960. At the advent of the Civil War centennial, the speaker explores the influence of crass commercialism on historical societies and celebrations. The Jamestown Exposition of 1907 is an example.
Prepared by the APVA in cooperation with the National Park Service.
Includes "Historical Note" and "Outline of Service."
Program: [2].
Prepared by the students of the college in honor of the installation of Dr. J. A. C. Chandler as presidentA revised edition was published in 1932.
Includes information about the contents of 'Colonial Virginia,' one of the buildings of the 'War Path,' which was the amusement section of the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.
A brochure distributed to the members of the Color Association. It tells about the Jamestown anniversary and includes swatches displaying the six "Jamestown colors" chosen to honor it (river aqua, Indian corn, Virginia sky, golden tobacco, glass green, and Jamestown clay)Reference: U.S. Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission,
Presented for the Governors during the Governors' Conference [49th], at Festival Park.
Questions and answers about celebrating the tercentennial. Program attached to back cover.
Poetry.
Previous editions: 1934 and 1938.
Earlier edition (1951?) had subtitle
Approved March 29, 1958 (1958 Va. Acts, chap. 498).
Approved March 25, 1920 (1920 Va. Acts, chap. 502).
Approved March 22, 1928 (1928 Va. Acts, chap. 375).
A version of the 1605 play, adapted for Jamestown Founding Weekend, May 1985. Script owned by Eastern National.
Scenes from a play presented at Jamestown on August 15, 16, and 17, 1990, in cooperation with the APVA.
Includes folk tunes used in the play.
1st season. "A drama of Jamestown by Paul Green."
A souvenir booklet. Includes advertising matter.
Program of a production by Bolossy Kiralfy.
A historical drama.
Presented at the request of the Middlesex Jamestown Festival Committee, 1607-1957. The play was written by Dorothy B. Cockrell.
A historical drama.
Program for performances of a drama adapted from the novel of the same title by Mary Johnston.
From the author's
For piano. Bears stamp: Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia.
For piano. Bears inscription: For Williard from Marion. Bears stamp: The Cable Company, Norfolk, Va.
Copy bears 2 stamps: The Cohen Company, Richmond, Va., and Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk. Va.
For piano. "Also published as a song": p.2.
Arranged by Everett J. Evans. Interlinear words on some parts.
For voice and piano. First line of text of vocal trio (p.4-5): How dear the emblem that waves on high.
For voice and piano. First line of text: Little girlie today we will go down the bay. First line of chorus: Jamestown, Jamestown, farewell to old New York. Cover title: Jamestown: the great waltz, song and chorus.
For voice and piano. First line of text: Miss Trixie O'Brien and Jimmie Devine. First line of chorus: Take me down to Jamestown, Jimmie.
Cover title: Exposition march two step.
"Dedicated to the Jamestown Exposition Co. Norfolk, Va."
A choral-symphonic work commissioned by the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. The music was set to the words of a poem with the same title published in 1606 by Michael Drayton to encourage the venture of the Virginia Company of London. The premiere performance occurred on April 1, 1957, in WilliamsburgContents: Sinfonia; You brave heroic minds; Earth's only paradise; In kenning of the shore; And in regions far; Thy voyages attend; Finale: Go and subdue.
For voice and piano. First line of text: He just caught the Jamestown ferry.
Official march of the Jamestown Tri-Centennial Exposition. Pl. no. 7918-5.
"The musical drama of the settlement of Jamestown, selected from the most celebrated operas."
Poetry.
Contents include "Ode to Jamestown," by J. K. Paulding, pages 33-35.
Includes original poems written for the 350th anniversary celebration by William Meredith, Marianne Moore, Elder Olson, Paul Engle, Donald Hall, John Berryman, Edgar Bogardus, Reed Whittemore, Randall Jarrell, Samuel French Morse, William Jay Smith, Dorothy Brown Thompson, and Mrs. Ulrich TroubetzkoyReference: Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission,
A ballad concerning the Indian massacre, to the tune of "All Those That Be Good Fellowes."
Facsimile: Photostat Americana, 2d series, no. 105. [Boston: 1940]. One of 15 copies from the original in the Public Record Office, May 1940.
Also published in the
Pronounced on the 250th anniversary of the English settlement at Jamestown, May 13th, 1857.
"Reprinted from the Jamestown Festival issue of the Montgomery News Messenger, May 30, 1957."
Reprint: New York, Avon Books, [1991].
Reprint: Americans in Fiction, Ridgewood, N.J., Gregg Press, [1968].
A memoir of the author: [275]-284.
Printing denoted as the 3d edition: Wilmington, Del., Printed for Simon Kollock by Robert Porter, 1825.
Everyday life at Jamestown from 1629 to 1676, with special attention to the family of Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.Includes a bibliography.
Illustrated by John Jordan.
Illustrated by Marjorie Stempel.
Includes bibliographical references.
Illustrations by M. Leone Bracker.
1907 publication by The McClure Co., New York.
Reprint: New York, Pocket Books, 1963; 416 pp., illus.
Illustrated by Charles V. John.
Includes bibliographical references.
Illustrated by Tony Capparelli. Includes index
Original edition: New York, Dell, 1987.
Reveals, through focus on the daily routines and issues of the day, what life was like in colonial Jamestown.Illustrated by Russell Hoover.
Illustrated by Harry Roth.A history of Virginia for young people.
"Good Books about Virginians: 227-28. Colonial period chronology: 229-43. Includes index."
A "simple biography."Illustrated by Christine Powers. Also produced on sound cassette.
Describes the founding of Jamestown. Illustrated by William Sauts Bock.
Relates the incident in the life of Matoax, also known as Pocahontas, in which she saves John Smith from death.Illustrated by Gerald Wood.British edition: London, Macdonald, 1987.
Illustrated by Manning de V. Lee.
Bibliography: 66.
Discusses the circumstances surrounding English colonization of Virginia and the evolution of slavery in that colony.
A collection of histories for children.
Illustrated by Tran Mawicke.
Consultant: Parke Rouse, Jr. Bibliography: 151.Reprint: Mahwah, N.J., Troll Associates, [1988?]
Bibliography: 144-46. Includes index.
A biography of the Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.
Illustrations by Ed Young.
Bibliography: 92-94. Includes index.
Various reprints, including New York: Trumpet Club, 1991.
Also produced on sound cassette (ENTRY 1131).
Visits such Virginia landmarks as Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond, Mount Vernon, and Civil War sites.
Maps and drawings by Barry Martin.
Bibliography: 187.
A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.
Illustrated by Deborah L. Chabrian.
Various reprints, including Austin, Tex.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1991 and 1995. Also produced on sound cassette (ENTRY 1141).
Examines the life of the Indian princess and her contact with English settlers, especially John Smith.
A biography of the seaman and explorer who helped settle Jamestown and who charted and sailed the New England coastline for England.Illustrated by Al Fiorentino.Reprint: Junior World Explorers [series], New York, Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.
A brief biography of the Indian princess who saved John Smith from death at the hands of her father, and later was very helpful to the colonists at Jamestown. Includes index.
The story of the Indian woman who captivated the heart of John Smith and was converted to Christianity.Illustrated by David Danz.
Text by Helene Hanff; pictures by Eddie Chan.
Fiction. Illustrated by Geri Strigenz.Having lived in Virginia for six years since 1622, Katherine does not want to leave her family's tobacco plantation after learning of her betrothal to an English heir.
On cover: The story of old Jamestown in words and pictures. Illustrated by F. Richard Vranian.
Describes the founding of Jamestown and the struggle of the colonists to survive. The effects the English had on the native peoples and the roots of slavery in the New World are discussed.Bibliography: 44-45.
A cooperative effort of Jamestown Settlement and Colonial National Historical Park, with original artwork by Shawn Heiges.Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography: [6].
A brief account of the life of the Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.Illustrated by Allan Eitzen.Also produced on a sound cassette narrated by Peter Thomas, with a teacher's guide.
Biographies include "Powhatan and the Settlers at Jamestown."
Bibliography: 53-54.
Two English children are told the story of their grandfather's experiences as one of the original Jamestown colonists of 1607.Illustrated by David Wenzel.Also produced on sound cassette (ENTRY 1137).
Fiction.In 1607 a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia. Pictures by Jacob Landau.
Text adapted by John Logan. Illustrated by Dan Siculan.
A biography of the Algonquian chief who assured the survival of the Jamestown colonists and is remembered as the builder of the Powhatan Confederacy of Indian tribes.
Bound volumes contain original samples of student assignments from Norfolk County Schools. (Norfolk County later became part of the city of Chesapeake.) Contents: Grades 1 and 2; Grades 5 and 6; Grades 10 and 11; Stenography [and] Typewriting.
In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know Pocahontas and the hardships of colonial life. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Also, Fawcett-Juniper ed., New York, Ballantine Books, 1989. German translation:
A history of the early years of Jamestown, with narrative of the lives of its inhabitants.
Includes bibliographical references.
A brief account of the history of Jamestown. Illustrated by Chuck Mitchell.
Fiction.
Near Jamestown in 1622, a young English boy and the son of a Powhatan Indian chief find themselves caught up in the growing animosity between their peoplesBibliographical references: 173-75.
Includes index.
A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess whose friendship toward the English settlers at Jamestown was a key factor in making the colony a success. Illustrated by David Wenzel. Also produced on a sound cassette with a teacher's guide (ENTRY 1140).
A geography and economics unit for high school students that uses two dissimilar places to examine the question of where humans choose to locate and why.
Includes index.
Describes the founding of Jamestown and the struggle of the colonists to survive in the New World. Bibliographical references: 64. Includes index.
Tells the story of the Powhatan Indian woman whose influence contributed to the success of the Jamestown settlement.
Illustrated by William Stobbs.
Traces the history of colonial Virginia from the first settlement at Jamestown to the War for Independence in 1776. Bibliography: [124]-125.
Bibliography: 10.
Bibliography: 101-3.
Bibliography: 14.
Bibliography: 9.
Pictures by Elmo Jones.
Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards.Originally titled
Size: 40 x 46 cm. Scale: "about five miles, or say 1 leagues to an inch" (Brown,
Front elevation and section of building. Drawing is signed: "Architects/J. Harlseton Parker - Douglas H. Thomas, Jr./John Kevan Peebles/Warren H. Manning - Landscape Designer/Robert S. Peabody - Advisory Architect."
Drawing is signed: "Architects/J. Harlseton Parker - Douglas H. Thomas, Jr./John Kevan Peebles/Warren H. Manning - Landscape Designer/Robert S. Peabody - Advisory Architect."
Drawing is signed: "Made by D. C. Miller and H. H. Pastrana/Dept. of Works."
Size: 32.5 x 41.5 cm.Scale: 6.8 cm. = 15 leaguesOriented with west at the top.Extends from Eastern Shore to west of the fall line and from south of Cape Henry to the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay.Iames'-towne is shown on the Powhatan River.Ten states of this map have been identified. Beginning with the second state the dates 1606 and 1607 appear on the map.References: McCary,
Size: 21 x 39 cm. Scale: 9 cm. = ca. 20 miles Oriented with southwest at the top. Extends from the Rappahannock River to "King James his River" and from Cape Henry to about Richmond. James towne appears to consist of both a peninsula attached to the mainland by an isthmus and an adjacent island. References: Worthington C. Ford, "Tyndall's Map of Virginia,"
Size: 17 x 31 cm.Scale: 7.5 cm. = ca. 20 milesAppears to be a rough tracing of Tyndall's Draught...of Virginia, reoriented with northeast at the top. This version was used as an illustration in Sams'
Size: 14 x 22 cm. Oriented with south at the top. Iacqueville appears in an oval enclosure on the north side of a river near its entrance into an ocean. West of Iacqueville, where the river branches, there is a larger settlement identified as Staat HenryVille. Forts are shown on either side of the mouth of the river. Most of the land appears to be cultivated; cattle are shown west of HenryVille. Armed settlers are depicted behind a barricade at the western edge of the chart. It might be assumed that Iacqueville and Staat HenryVille are Jamestown and Henrico respectively, but little else about this map suggests that the cartographer was familiar with Virginia's geography. The map apparently was published on a folded sheet, accompanied by a drawing of walrus in Greenland, in
Size: 48 x 69 cm. Shows the Powhatan (James) River up to Bermuda Hundred, with soundings indicated up to Jamestown. A narrow ford links Jamestown to the mainland and is guarded by a Blochouse. There is a cluster of three houses at Jamestown. Archers Hope and Argalls Towne are also indicated. An unsigned, undated manuscript of this map is at the Algemeen Rijksarchief in The Hague (document 4.VELH 619.89). The map was published in
Size: 41 x 53 cm.Obviously based on Smith's
Size: 49 x 72 cm. Scale: 13.6 cm. = 40 English leagues Extends along the coast from 30 & deg;30'N to 37 & deg;50'N (Rappahannock River). Inland features are indicated only in the area from the Carolina outer banks to the York River in Virginia. Jamestown is not identified. Available: CW, LC
Size: 27 x 35 cm. Scale: 8.5 cm. = 100 miles Oriented with west at the top. Shows river systems from Cape Fear to Cape Cod, with less accuracy to the north. Mountains range from north to south at the heads of the rivers, with "The Sea of China and the Indies" a few miles west of the mountains. Iames Towne appears as a peninsula in James his River. Verner identifies this as the third state of a map by John Farrer (or Ferrar), Virginia's father. Previous states used the word "Falls" in the title where "Hills" appears in this version. Cumming identifies this as the fourth state, the second by Virginia Farrer and the first to substitute "Falls" for "Hills" in the title. References: Verner, "The First Maps of Virginia," 13-14 (ENTRY 712); William P. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, 141-42. Available: CW, John Carter Brown Library
Size: 32 x 43 cm. Shows a parcel of land most of which is between two waterways, each labeled Branch of Pitch and Tarre Swampe. The parcel does not extend to the James River, which is shown at the lower left corner. Available: CW, LC
Size: 38 x 47 cm. Obviously based on the Hondius version (ENTRY 911) of John Smith's
Size: 10 x 12 cm. Extends from Floride to Canada (actually from about South Carolina to Long Island) and from Lake Erie to the Atlantic coast. Iamestown is on the Powhatan River, but the scale is too small to determine the land form. Available: CW, Huntington Library
Size: ca. 79 x 93 cm. Scale: 8.2 cm. = 8 English leagues = 24 English miles Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the coast to about the fall line and from the Virginia/Carolina border area to southern New Jersey. James Towne appears to be an island, though the shading might obscure an isthmus. Green Spring is also indicated. Available: CW, John Carter Brown Library
Size: 37.5 x 49 cm. Scale: 6.5 cm. = 40 English miles Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the coast to mountains west of the fall line and from Albemarle Sound to southeastern Pennsylvania. The shape of James Town is obscured by a symbol for a settlement. Green Spring is also indicated. Published in John Speed's
Size: 12.5 x 11 cm. Extends from Cape Henry to New Jersey and from about the fall line to the Atlantic coast. Rivers and counties are indicated, though there is no label for James City County. The Iames T. label is on the south side of the James River between the labels for Surry County and Isle of Wight. The map was published on page 369 of Morden's
Size: 44.5 x 50 cm. Extends from Lower Norfolk to the Potomac River (36 & deg;35'N to 38 & deg;18'N) and from west of the fall line to Eastern Shore. Inset: extension of the Potomac River to the falls. Jamestown is not labeled. The shape of the land is quite inaccurate. Kings Creek, Queens Creek, The Greenspring, and Freemans Point are indicated. Available: CW, PRO
Size: 51.5 x 58 cm. Scale: 13.5 cm. = ca. 16 English miles Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the Atlantic coast to about the fall line and from Cape Henry to New Jersey (37 & deg;N to 40 & deg;N). Iames Town appears to be on a peninsula. Freemans Point is also indicated. The map is from
Size: 56 x 36.5 cm. Scale: 7.3 cm. = 100 chains (1 chain = 66 feet) Oriented with northwest at the top. Shows the western end of the Jamestown peninsula, with a narrow isthmus, and land along the James River to the west. The peninsula is labeled James Citty. Back River is indicated. Plots of land with houses are charted on the mainland. A legend lists "His Excellencies Present Tenants their Dwelling houses and quantity of Land." Available: CW; Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford, England
Size: 33 x 42 cm. Scale: 7 cm. = 18 chains Apparently shows two areas of the Jamestown peninsula. One area appears to extend south from the isthmus and is bounded by the James River, Sandy Bay, Back Creek, marsh, Mr Richard James's Land, and what may be a creek or another strip of marshland. Within this area there are two parcels, one of eight acres and one of 20 acres. A faint line labeled Roades extends across the area from the isthmus to the southeast. Block House Hill is indicated near the isthmus. The second area on the sheet is a plot of 66 acres which extends across two branches of Pitch and Tarr Swamp. It is bounded on the north by Mr James's Land and partly on the southwest by William Briscoes Orchard. Mr Sherwood's house and kitchen are identified in a one-acre plot on the western side of the area. Just outside this plot Mr. Chiles's house and Coll[?] White's house are indicated. Available: CW, LC
Size: 6 x 22 cm. Oriented with southwest at the top. This sketch of the James River from Hogg Isld. to Sandy Bay is from the fourth page of John Clayton's letter to the Royal Society "giveing a farther Account of ye Soile & other observations of Virginia," dated August 17, 1688. James Town is shown on a peninsula with a narrow isthmus at Sandy Bay. The Back Creeke separates the northeastern side of the peninsula from the mainland. Archers Hope and Archers Hope Creek are indicated on the mainland. On the peninsula there is a semicircular fort near Sandy Bay and a square "old fort" much farther to the southeast. Five or six other structures form a row along the riverbank, and The Brick House is indicated on Back Creeke near the eastern end of the peninsula. The Swamp appears as a line running diagonally across the peninsula. In his letter Clayton suggests how to drain the swamp, describes how the isthmus floods in the spring tides forming "an absolute island," describes the two forts, and recommends Archers Hope Point as the best site for a fort. Available: CW, LC
Size: 51 x 79.5 cm. Scale: 14 cm. = 15 English leagues Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the Atlantic coast to Charles City County and from Lower Norfolk County to Staten Island (36 & deg;30'N to 40 & deg;45'N). James T. is indicated but without sufficient precision to determine the land form. There appear to be three peninsulas and two islands in the vicinity of the label. Fremans Point, Queens Creek, City Creek, The Green Spring, and Kings Creek are indicated on the mainland. Available: CW, LC
Size: 51 x 57 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 13 miles Extends from Cape Henry to New Jersey (36 & deg;55'N to 40 & deg;27'N) and from west of the fall line to the coast. Iames Town, Kings Creek, Queens Creek, Greenspring, and Freemans[?] Point are indicated. Available: CW, LC
Size: 104 x 113.5 cm. (including two columns of text) Scale: 11 cm. = 30 miles Extends from the upper Carolina coast to Long Island Sound (36 & deg;35'N to 41 & deg;20'N) and from west of the fall line to the coast. An inset shows the Outer Banks and Albemarle Sound area of Carolina. James Town, Kings Creek, Queens Creek, the Green Spring, and Freemans Point are indicated. A column of text on each side of the map consists of descriptions of the colonies. The lengthy description of Virginia deals with discovery and exploration, Indian relations, geography, government, economy, climate, and wildlife. Sir William Berkeley is referred to as "the present Governor." James-Town, "the principal Seat of the English," is described as being "situated in a Peninsula" and as having "many fair Houses, whereof some are of Brick." Available: CW, PRO
Size: 26 x 34 cm. Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the coast to Charles City and from Cape Henry to the Potomac River. Jems Conti[?] is labeled, but the primitive sketch (from Michel's diary, 1701-1702) does not accurately indicate the shape of the land. Available: CW
Size: 41 x 34 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 8 single chains The land is bounded partly by the James River, a "small swamp," and the "main road from Jamestown." A road "up the country" crosses the property and meets the road from Jamestown where the latter becomes the road "to Williamsburg." Available: CW
Size: 49.5 x 58.5 cm. Scale: 7 cm. = ca. 20 Milliaria Germanica Extends from Cape Fear to Connecticut (33 & deg;N to 42 & deg;N) and from Lake Erie to the Atlantic coast. The coast, bays, and rivers are rather accurately charted, but places are not. James Towne is located on the mainland about halfway between the mouth of the Chickahominy River and the mouth of the James River. The Green (Greenspring?), Kiskiack, and Kecoughtan are also indicated. Published in Homann's
Size: 103 x 85.5 cm. Appears to be the same map as A New Map of Virginia... (ENTRY 927), but without the columns of text. The only other change noted, besides the names of the sellers, is in the dedication "to Mr. Micajah Perry of London Merchant." The 1698 version went on to state that the map is dedicated and presented by Williams, Thornton, and Morden. On this later version only the name Thornton remains. Available: CW, CLM
Size: 27 x 20 cm. Scale: 4 cm. = ca. 29 English miles Extends from Cape Henry to Baltimore (37 & deg;N to 39 & deg;50'N) and from about the fall line to the Atlantic coast. The label for Iames To. is in the Iames River, but near a peninsula. Colledg, City Creek, and York County are also indicated. The label for Iames County is west of the Chicahomon River. Published in Moll's
Size: 52 x 68 cm. Extends from below the Carolina border to the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers (36 & deg;N to 39 & deg;55'N) and from the Blue Ridge to the Atlantic coast. James Town appears as a peninsula. Williamsburg, York, and the counties are indicated. Available: CW, PRO
Size: 45 x 58.5 cm. Scale: 19.5 cm. = 5 leagues = 15 miles Extends from Norfolk to Gloucester and from James City Isle to Eastern Shore. This is the first of two states identified by Verner. Each state appeared in several editions of
Size: 32.5 x 23 cm. Scale: 1.6 cm. = 10 English miles Shows the full length of the Chesapeake Bay (36 & deg;50'N to 40 & deg;N) and from about the fall line to the coast (77 & deg;W to 74 & deg;5'W). James To. is shown on a peninsula. College Creek is also indicated. This map appeared in
Size: 77 x 118 cm., divided into four plates each ca. 40 x 60 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 10.33 miles Extends from Albemarle Sound to Philadelphia (35 & deg;45'N to 40 & deg;12'N) and from the Alleghenies to the Atlantic coast (82 & deg;19'W to 74 & deg;W). James Town is shown on a peninsula. Also indicated are Green Spring, Powhatan Swamp, Williamsburg, and various plantations. Seven additional English states (1755-1794) and six French impressions have been identified. All subsequent English versions contain the word "most" in the title (
Size: 45 x 66 cm. Extends from Albemarle Sound to Philadelphia (36 & deg;N to 40 & deg;N) and from the New River to the Atlantic coast. James Town appears to be on a peninsula. Williamsburg is also indicated. Available: CW; Archives Marine, Paris
Size: 18 x 23 cm. Scale: 3.7 cm. = 60 British statute miles Extends from Currituck Inlet to southern Pennsylvania (36 & deg;10'N to 40 & deg;N) and from the New River to Eastern Shore (82 & deg;25'W to 75 & deg;40'W). James T. and Williamsburg are indicated. Published in
Size: 18.5 x 30 cm. Scale: 1 cm. = 5 Lieues Communes Extends from Cape Henry to Philadelphia (37 & deg;N to 40 & deg;N) and from western Maryland to the Atlantic coast. The James Town label is in the middle of the James River; the symbol for the place appears to be on the peninsula that forms the western side of the mouth of the Chickahominy River. Williamsburg is also indicated. The map was published in Bellin's
Size: 14.5 x 19.5 cm. Extends from Albemarle Sound to Philadelphia (36 & deg;N to 40 & deg;N) and from the Allagany Mountains to the Atlantic coast. James T. appears to be on a peninsula. Williamsburg is also indicated. The map was published opposite p. 569 in Salmon's
Size: 97 x 131 cm. Scale: 5 7/16 in. = 40 British statute miles Extends from the Carolina line to Frederick County (ca. 36 & deg;30'N to 39 & deg;55'N) and from the New River to Eastern Shore. James Town is shown on the James River in James City County, with no indication of a peninsula or island. Green Spring, Williamsburg, Powhatan, and Archers Hope Creek are also indicated. Available: CW
Size: 24 x 27 cm. Scale: 7 cm. = 30 miles Extends from Suffolk to St. Marys (Md.) and from James City County to the Atlantic coast. James Town is on a peninsula and is connected by road to Williamsburgh. Archershope is also indicated. The map was published in the
Size: 96.5 x 142 cm. Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the Atlantic coast to Jamestown and from Suffolk to the northern end of Chesapeake Bay (36 & deg;40'N to 39 & deg;45'N). Navigation directions and observations are printed on the chart in various locations, including "Directions for Sailing into James River." James Town is on a peninsula. Powhatan, Archers Hope, and Williamsburg are also indicated. Available: CW, LC
Size: 58.5 x 86 cm. This essentially is a French edition of the Anthony Smith map of 1776. It appeared as no. 22 in
Size: 158.5 x 74.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 10 statute miles Extends from 34 & deg;37'N to 41 & deg;32'N. James To. is on a peninsula. Williamsburg is also indicated. This map was published in Des Barres's
Size: 68 x 83 cm. Unfinished map which extends from Point Comfort to Mobjack Bay and from Mill Creek to Chesapeake Bay. Detail is in the Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Gloucester Point areas only; other sections are faintly sketched, including what may be the eastern end of Jamestown Island. There are no place names, except for a few scribbled in the unfinished section. The detailed areas include watercourses, indications of buildings, and what may be military emplacements around Yorktown and Williamsburg and on the James River near College Creek. Reference: Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown,
Size: 93 x 148 cm., including text Scale: 11.1 cm. = 15 miles Extends from Goochland County to the Chesapeake Bay and from Portsmouth to Fredericksburg. Includes a column of text down the left side describing the movements and engagements of the British and American forces from April through the surrender in October. Lines of march and encampments are indicated on the map. James-Town is shown on a peninsula, though the text refers to "James Island." The lines representing troop movements indicate that British forces were at Jamestown on two occasions. Reference: Peter J. Guthorn,
Size: 45 x 67 cm. Scale: 26.7 cm. = 6000 toises = ca. 7 miles Extends from Green Spring to Yorktown. Isle de James Town appears to be connected to the mainland by a bridge. Shows encampments at Jamestown and at Meen, which appears to be at about where the marina is currently located on Powhatan Creek. Also indicates a church on the road to Williamsburg just west of Powhatan Creek. Roads, cleared land, and buildings are indicated. Very similar in concept to the Pechon map. Reference: Coolie Verner,
Size: 116 x 83 cm. James town appears to be on an island. Two lines, apparently indicating troop movement, pass through the town. Green Spring, Powhatan, Archers hope, and Williamsburg are indicated on the mainland. A column on the left side of the map contains text "pour servir & agrave; l'intelligence de la carte." Reference: Coolie Verner,
Size: 75 x 117.5 cm. Oriented with northeast at the top. Extends from Suffolk to Mobjack Bay and from Varina (east of Richmond) to Cape Henry. Some labels are in French. James town is on a rather broad peninsula. Green Spring, Powhatan Creek, Williamsburg, and Archers Hope are indicated on the mainland. Reference: Coolie Verner,
Size: 23.5 x 17.5 cm. (CW copy) Scale: 7.1 cm. = 20 miles Oriented with north-northwest at the top. Extends from Grand Marais (Dismal Swamp) to Williamburg and from the Jamestown area to Cape Charles. Jamestown is not labeled, but a peninsula is depicted. Williamburg, Kemps, Hayes, and Custiss Mill are indicated. Depicted but not labeled are what appear to be Powhatan Creek, Lake Powell, College Creek, Lake Matoaka, and Queen's Creek. Available: CW; Collection of Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va.
Size: 45 x 46 cm. Scale: 9.5 cm. = 800 toises = ca. 1 mile Extends from the western end of the island where Jamestown is located to Green Spring. A ferry is shown connecting the island to the mainland. Roads, wooded areas, and buildings are indicated, as are military positions, which are centered around Mr. Harris's property about halfway between the island and Green Spring. Neck Land's, Humbler's plantation, and a church on the road to Williamsburg are also indicated. The title, a legend, and the scale occupy the left side of the sheet (13.5 cm.) Available: CW, LC
Size: 71 x 124 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 5 miles Oriented with west at the top. Extends from the Eastern Shore to James Town and from Norfolk to Philadelphia. James Town is shown at the eastern end of a peninsula. Williamsburg and Archers Hope are also indicated. References: Coolie Verner,
Size: 28 x 56 cm. Scale: 1 in. = ca. 1.2 miles Extends from Green Spring to Yorktown. It is unclear whether James-Town is on an island or if there is an isthmus. Roads and cleared land are shown, as well as troop positions. Some individual structures might be discernible on a full-sized copy. Reference: Coolie Verner,
Size: 30.5 x 27.5 cm. Scale: 10.7 cm. = 20 miles Extends from Dismal Swamp to Gloucester and from Jamestown to Cape Henry. Jamestown is not labeled but appears as a peninsula. Roads are indicated, though none extend onto the Jamestown peninsula. Available: CW, LC
Size: 43 x 53.5 cm. Scale: 6.5 cm. = 10 miles Extends from Suffolk to the mouth of the Rappahannock River and from Jamestown to the coast. Jamestown is shown on a peninsula. A road is indicated from Williamsburg, and a dotted line from Jamestown across the river to Cobham perhaps represents a ferry. Powhatan Creek and Archers Hope are indicated. Available: CW, CLM
Size: 65 x 91 cm. Scale: 10 cm. = 800 toises = ca. 1 mile Oriented with east at the top. Extends from the mouth of Queen's Creek on the York River (upper left) to just west of the mouth of College Creek on the James River (lower right). Jamestown Island is not shown; but James City Glebe, Spratley, and Arche's-hope are indicated on the mainland. The title, a legend, and the scale occupy the left side of the sheet (12 cm.) Available: CW, LC
Size: 59 x 59 cm. Scale: 8.6 cm. = 70 American miles Extends from Albemarle Sound to Lake Erie (36 & deg;40'N to 42 & deg;30'N) and from the Ohio and Kanhaway river valleys to the Atlantic coast. James T. appears to be on a peninsula. Green Spring, Taliaferro, Powhatan Swamp, Williamsburg, Archer's Hope, and Kingsmill are also indicated. This map first appeared in Abb & eacute; Morellet's 1786 translation of Jefferson's
Size: 20 x 27 cm. Scale: 5.4 cm. = 30 British statute miles Extends from Suffolk to the Patomak River (36 & deg;55'N to 38 & deg;20'N) and from Louisa County to Eastern Shore (78 & deg;50'W to 75 & deg;55'W). James Town is on a peninsula. Williamsburgh is also indicated. This map was published in William Gordon's
Size: 78.5 x 119.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = ca. 10 miles Covers the area of the current states of Virginia and West Virginia, with an inset map of Ohio (scale: 1 in. = ca. 20 miles). James T. is shown on a peninsula. Green Spring, Powhatan Swamp, and Archers Hope are indicated. "To the General Assembly of Virginia This Map is Respectfully Inscribed by their Fellow Citizens. James Madison, William Prentis, William Davis, Proprietors." Available: CW, CLM
Size: ca. 63 x 84 cm. Scale: 26 cm. = 20 English statute miles Extends from Dismal Swamp to Mobjack Bay (ca. 36 & deg;45'N to 37 & deg;25'N) and from the mouth of the Chickahominy River to Cape Charles. Jamestown is on an island. The crossing from the western point of the island to the mainland is labeled "ford." A ferry from Cobham on the south bank of the James River is shown terminating on the mainland in the vicinity of the ford. A road from Williamsburg terminates at the mainland side of the ford. No road is shown on Jamestown Island. A ferry is shown from the eastern side of the island across the James River to Hog Island. A church, Powhatan Creek, Glebe, Spratley, and College Creek are indicated on the mainland. N.4. appears in front of the title. Available: CW, NA
Size: 12 x 20 cm. Extends from Jamestown to Yorktown, including Williamsburg. This section of Kearney's 1818 map
Size: 114 x 174 cm. Scale: 1 in. = ca. 7 miles See: Madison map of 1807. Available: CW
Size: ca. 156 x 238 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 5 American miles Covers the area of the current states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, southwest Pennsylvania up to Pittsburgh, and the Delaware Bay up to Philadelphia. James T. I. appears to be separated from the mainland by Colemans Creek. James Town Creek, Powhatan Creek, and Archershape Creek are indicated on the mainland. No ferries are shown. A mileage chart of locations on three steamboat routes from Richmond to Washington and Philadelphia includes James Town Id. Reference: P. Lee Phillips,
J. N. Maffitt U.S.N. Asst. U.S.C.S. 1855. Size: 71 x 127 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Oriented with southwest at the top. Only the eastern end of Jamestown Island is shown, including the entrance to Back River between the island and the mainland. Gibson, James, and Clara are indicated on the island. Jones, Archer, Belle, Pine, and Archershape Creek are indicated on the mainland. Numerous soundings are shown. A Table of Reference indicates that surveys were taken by S. B. Luce, Lieut. U.S.N., and C. H. Cushman, Lieut. U.S.N. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 57 x 74 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Blueprint. Oriented with south at the top. Shows a section of the James River from about Hog Island to west of Swan's Point, centering on Jamestown Island. There are depth curves for 6, 12, and 18 feet. The northern side of Jamestown Island is not fully charted. Back River is indicated at the western end of the island. Jamestown and Church Point are the only places named on the island. There is a pier or wharf at Church Point. Available: CW
Size: ca. 156 x 238 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 5 American miles Covers the same area as the 1825 version, but more accurately and with numerous additions and revisions of place names. Soundings have been eliminated. James T. I. more closely resembles its current shape, and Lower Point is indicated. Church Point, Powhatan Creek, and College Point are indicated on the mainland. Available: CW, LC
Size: 43 x 32 cm. Scale: 1 cm. = ca. 5 miles Extends from Suffolk to Baltimore and from Staunton to Cape Henry. Jamestown is not shown, but Confederate batteries are indicated along the James River in that area. Available: CW
Size: 45 x 53 cm. (CW copy does not appear to be the entire map.) Scale: 2.5 cm. = 1 statute mile Oriented with northwest at the top. Shows a section of the lower Virginia peninsula from Williamsburg to the mouths of the Warwick and York rivers. Jamestown Is. is separated from the mainland by Back River. Clebe [
Size: 88.5 x 59 cm. Scale: 2.6 cm. = 1 statute mile Oriented with northwest at the top. Shows the lower Virginia Peninsula from Williamsburg to Fortress Monroe. This appears to be the manuscript on which the previous map was based. Available: CW, NA
Size: 41 x 25.5 cm. Scale: 3.4 cm. = 3 statute miles Oriented with northwest at the top. Shows the lower Virginia peninsula from Williamsburg to Fort Monroe. Jamestown Is. and detail are the same as on the previous
Size: 21 x 20 cm. Scale: 2.4 cm. = 3 statute miles Extends from the James River to the Pamunkey River and from New Kent Court House to the mouth of Queen's Creek. Jamestown Is. is separated from the mainland by Back River. Clebe [
Size: 41.5 x 69 cm. Scale: 5.5 cm. = 5 miles Extends from Richmond to Yorktown. Jamestown Island, with Church Point and Lower Point indicated, is separated from the mainland by Back River. Clay Bluff, Church Pier, Clebe [
Size: 86.5 x 55 cm. Scale: 1:60,000 (8 cm. = ca. 3 miles) Oriented with northwest at the top. Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by Back River. Powhatan Creek, Glebe, Archershape or College Creek, and College Landing are indicated on the mainland. A ferry across the James River is indicated from the western side of the mouth of Powhatan Creek. Available: CW, NA
W. Reid Gould, 158 Nassau St., 1862. Size: 49 x 84.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 3 miles Oriented with northeast at the top. Extends from Suffolk to Gloucester and from Richmond to Norfolk. Jamestown I., with Lower Point indicated, is separated from the mainland by Back River. No ferry is shown. Church Point, Powhatan Creek, College Point, and Archershape Creek are indicated on the mainland. Some soundings in feet are shown. Reference: Library of Congress,
Size: 53.5 x 69 cm. Scale: 1:200,000 (4 cm. = ca. 5 miles) Extends from Norfolk to the Rappahannock River (36 & deg;50'N to 37 & deg;47'N) and from west of Richmond to Norfolk (77 & deg;40'W to 76 & deg;10'W). Jamestown Id., with Church Point and Lower Point indicated, is separated from the mainland by Back River. No ferries are shown. Jones and Archershape Creek are indicated on the mainland. A few soundings are shown in the river. Reference: Library of Congress,
Size: 86.5 x 79 cm. Scale: 1:200,000 (4 cm. = ca. 5 miles) Extends from the North Carolina border to the Rappahannock River (36 & deg;24'N to 37 & deg;40'N) and from west of Richmond to Norfolk (77 & deg;50'W to 76 & deg;10'W). Jamestown Id., with Church Point indicated, is separated from the mainland by Back River. No ferries are shown. Jones and College Creek are indicated on the mainland. A few soundings are shown in the river. Reference: Library of Congress,
Size: 98 x 131 cm. Extends from Powhatan Swamp to the Pamunkey River and from Shirley plantation to Williamsburg. Jamestown is not shown. Green Spring Farm, Mrs. Jones, St. George, Amblers, Peachy, The Main, Head of Dorsey's Pond, and Powhatan Swamp are indicated on the mainland. Available: CW, Virginia Historical Society
Size: 42 x 76 cm. Scale: 1:200,000 (3.6 cm. = 5 statute miles; CW copy may be slightly reduced.) Oriented with north-northeast at the top. Extends from Suffolk to Mathews and from Amelia Court House to Norfolk. Jamestown Id., with Church Point and Lower Point indicated, is separated from the mainland by Back River. No ferries are shown. Jones and Archershape Creek are indicated on the mainland. A few soundings are given in the river. Available: CW, NA
Size: 55 x 50 cm. Scale: 1:200,000 (5.2 cm. = 10 statute miles; CW copy appears to be a reduction.) Extends from the Dismal Swamp to the Rappahannock River (36 & deg;25'N to 37 & deg;50'N) and from west of Richmond to Norfolk (77 & deg;50'W to 76 & deg;10'W). Jamestown Id., with Church Point and Lower Point indicated, is separated from the mainland by Back River. Jones is indicated on the mainland. No ferries or soundings are given. Forwarded to Eng. Bureau Richmond Nov 18th 1864 by Capt. J. [?], Top. Eng. 2nd Corps A.N.Va. [The map, in a different hand] Available: CW, University of North Carolina
Size: 63.5 x 58 cm. Extends from Newport News Point to the York River and from Williamsburg to Fort Monroe. Jamestown is not indicated, but Back River defines the northeastern side of a broad peninsula. Between Back River and Ackersham Cr (perhaps Archer's Hope), three farms are outlined along the river and numbered 88, 87, and 86. According to the list at the top of the map, these are respectively Baker Wynne, Thomas Wynne, and Richd Wynnes. Available: CW, NA
Size: 47.5 x 89 cm. Scale: 1 cm. = 5 miles Covers Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, and West Virginia without the upper panhandle (36 & deg;15'N to 39 & deg;45'N and 83 & deg;35'W to 75 & deg;W). James I. is indicated, but James T. is shown on the mainland. A "projected" R. & N.P.News railroad is shown passing through Williamsburg. Available: CW
Size: 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Oriented with northeast at the top. This sketch shows the location of a Geological Survey station named Sheilds on the western side of the Old Earth-work of 1862 near the western end of James Id. The entire circumference of the earthwork is on land, with its southwest face parallel to, and very near, the bank of the James River. To the southeast of the earthwork are Old Ruins (Jamestown) and an Old Grave Yard. A Farm Road passes very close to the northeast side of the earthwork and the graveyard. The mouth of Back River is shown to the northwest. The accompanying page of handwritten text, which describes the station marker and signal, uses the spelling Shields and the name Jamestown Island and refers to the westernmost part of the island as Chester Pt. Available: CW, Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Size: 131.5 x 74.5 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = ca. 1 mile) The sheet extends from 37 & deg;04'N to 37 & deg;18'N and from 76 & deg;52'W to 76 & deg;42'W, but the charted area extends only a few centimeters from the river and is contained within the boundaries of 37 & deg;07'N and 37 & deg;16'N. Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by The Thoroughfare. Goose Hill is indicated, and Jamestown appears in this area on the river near the eastern end of the island. Shields is indicated on the river near the western end. A few structures are shown, including what appears to be a large one near the center of the island. A road from the north approaches the island at the western end, crosses the creek onto the island, follows the southern perimeter and returns across the center, forming a loop. The western end of the loop is at what appears to be a pier, about one third of the way down the southwestern side of the island. Three areas are marked off with dotted lines but not identified. Markings apparently indicate marshes, wooded land, cleared land, and cultivated land or orchards. Similar markings are used on the mainland, but the only labels on the north side of the river are Deep Creek, Powhatan Creek, and Mill Creek. The charting does not extend as far as Williamsburg. Available: CW, National Ocean Survey
Size: 76 x 72 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Only the eastern end of Jamestown Island is charted, with no places labeled. Archershape Creek is indicated. Detailed soundings are shown west and northeast of Hog Island, including around the eastern end of Jamestown Island. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 43 x 63.5 cm. Scale: 1:50,000 (16 cm. = ca. 5 miles) Oriented with north-northeast at the top. Extends from the mouth of the Chickahominy River to the western end of Mulberry Island and Burwell's Bay. Jamestown I., with Goose Hill indicated, is separated from the mainland by The Thoroughfare. The road and land markings are similar to those on the 1873-74 chart. College Creek is indicated on the mainland. Numerous soundings are given in rivers and creeks, with buoys and bottom conditions indicated. Available: CW, NA
Size: 288 x 75 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = 1 statute mile) Blueprint. Oriented with west-northwest at the top. Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by Jamestown Thoroughfare. On the island four triangulation points for charting purposes are labeled Shields, Flag on Cu, Jamestown, and Back River. There are depth curves for 6, 12, and 18 feet and numerous soundings, but these are not shown around the eastern end of the island. Available: CW
Size: 234 x 75 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = 1 statute mile) Blueprint. Oriented with northwest at the top. Only the eastern end of Jamestown Island is shown. A triangulation point for charting purposes is labeled Jamestown. On the mainland Archershape Creek is indicated. There are depth curves for 6, 12, and 18 feet and numerous soundings. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 102 x 367 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 400 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with south at the top. Extends from the western end of Jamestown Island to Claremont. There are numerous soundings, but none at Jamestown Island. The riverbank is indicated only in the eastern sector. Jamestown Tower is identified. This chart seems to be a composite of surveys. In the Swan's Point and Dancing Point areas there are notes which indicate that "soundings were taken Aug. 1895, under the direction of Col. Peter C. Hains, Corps of Engineers U.S.A. by H. D. Whitcomb, Assistant Engineer." Available: CW
Size: 98.5 x 153 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 400 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with southwest at the top. Shows the riverbank of Jamestown Island from the southern face to the western end. Numerous soundings are given off the southern face of the island. The fort, church tower, and graveyard are indicated, as well as a structure labeled Brown's. A road follows the riverbank from near the church tower to a pier more than 3000 feet to the southeast. Back River is indicated at the western end of the island. Dotted lines at the western end of the island identify a "protection wall constructed in 1901 and 1906." It is not clear if other figures on the chart might have been added after 1890-1891. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 73 x 103 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 5 ft. Blueprint. Shows outline and relative positions of the church tower and graveyard. Numbers in the graveyard apparently represent grave sites. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 75 x 105 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 100 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. This chart depicts the same area and sites as the Deed Book sketch with nearly identical title (ENTRY 993) which uses Mr. Barney's name instead of Mrs. Barney's. The Deed Book sketch, however, indicates a Mansion which is not shown on this chart. Available: CW
Size: 23 x 36 cm. Scale: 1 in. = ca. 255 ft. Oriented with northeast at the top. Shows the western end of Jamestown Island to just east of the APVA plat. The island is separated from the mainland by The Thoroughfare. A bridge is shown spanning The Thoroughfare. Within the APVA plat a Fort, a Church Tower, and a Grave Yard are identified. The Fort is on the riverbank, and its other sides are defined by a Moat. The ruins of a Magazine are indicated in the river just off the western side of the APVA property. No pier, wharf, or jetties are shown. The northern and eastern sides of another fort-like structure with a Moat are shown just outside the APVA plat near The Thoroughfare. There is a Mansion approximately 850 feet east of the APVA plat. This sketch from James City County Deed Book 5:539 accompanied the deed dated May 13, 1893. It apparently was copied from a larger drawing since the scale indicated (1 in. = 100 ft.) does not correspond to the measurements charted. Available: CW, JCC
Size: 24 x 33 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 400 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. Shows the western end of the island, including all of the P.Va.A.Soc. land. The APVA area is bordered on the north and east by land labeled E. E. Barney. The island is separated from the mainland by The Thoroughfare. The Shore Line 1873 to '75 and the Shore Line 1892 are indicated. A full, irregular oval labeled Fort is bounded on its southwest side by the earlier shoreline, but it is bisected by the 1892 line. The Tower is identified. A second Fort is shown outside the APVA land near The Thoroughfare. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 29 x 83.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 100 ft. Blueprint. Shows the riverbank from about 800 feet north of APVA property to the Jamestown Wharf. The Old Tower is indicated. Available: CW
Size: 23 x 16 cm. Oriented with north-northwest at the top. Extends from Richmond to Norfolk, showing features along the James River. A "Time Table" gives departure and arrival times for Richmond, Old Point, and Baltimore only. Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by Little Back River. No steamer dock is shown. College Creek and Williamsburg are indicated on the mainland. Available: CW
Size: 27 x 54 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 2 ft. Blueprint. Shows a cross section of the proposed protection wall and levee and a detail of a capstone. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 66 x 95 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 100 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. A very faded sketch of the riverbank in the APVA area. The tower, the grave yard, Jamestown Wharf, and four jetties are indicated. Some charting lines apparently were added later; legible dates are November 1901 and May 1904. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 61 x 91.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 100 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. Seems to be a composite of the other map with this title (ENTRY 998) and
Size: 64.5 x 166 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 50 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. Shows the riverbank extending west and north from the Jamestown Wharf past the APVA property. The church tower is indicated. Boring sites, jetties, and the cypress tree are shown in the river. A chart giving the results of borings extends across the bottom of the sheet. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 29 x 53 cm. Scale: 1:405,504 (2 cm. = ca. 5 miles) Indicates railroads, with mileage, and domestic and foreign steamship lines. Inset:
Size: 20 x 37 cm. Scale: 5 cm. = 16 miles Extends from Portsmouth to the Pamunkey River and from Richmond to Cape Henry. Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by Back River. Places indicated on the mainland include Governor's Land, Argall's Town, Greenspring, Powhatan Creek, Neck of Land, Coleman's Creek, Archer's Hope, Rich Neck, and Archer's Hope Creek. Available: CW
Size: 73 x 107 cm. Blueprint. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 38.5 x 61 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 6 ft. Blueprint. Plan and sections of proposed revetment. Available: CW
Size: 52.5 x 51 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 3 ft. Blueprint. Plan and sections of proposed protection wall. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 47 x 87 cm. Scale: 1:887,040 (1 in. = 14 miles) Compiled from the official records of the Association by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson. Inset:
Size: 44 x 178.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 25 ft. Blueprint. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 54.5 x 153.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 25 ft. Blueprint. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 40 x 172 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 25 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Extends along the riverbank for approximately 1,600 feet northwest of Jamestown Wharf. The Church-Tower and Grave-Yard are indicated. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 75 x 151 cm. Blueprint. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 46 x 53.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 200 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Shows the western end of Jamestown Island, centering on APVA property. Back River separates the island from the mainland. A road from a bridge over Back River crosses the APVA property to the riverbank. Jamestown Wharf is shown just east of APVA property. The marshland within the APVA area is charted, as are the graveyard and the church tower. The protection wall along the riverbank is shown, the northern half constructed in 1901 and the remainder under construction. The area of the proposed dredging is along the protection wall in front of the APVA property. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 20 x 24 cm. Scale: 7.3 cm. = 1 mile Many features, both contemporary and historical, are shown on Jamestown Island. Some are labeled; others are indicated by letters or numbers which are keyed on an attached list of "References." A road from Williamsburg ("7 miles") crosses a bridge over Back River near the western end of the island and proceeds to the vicinity of the church tower and then eastward across the island, terminating near Black Point. First, second and third steamboat wharves are shown, but there is no indication that one was still being used. On the mainland, The Main, Glass House, Neck of Land, Coleman's Creek, Glebe Land, and Archer's Hope are indicated. Available: CW
Size: 26 x 23 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 200 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. This appears to be a nearly exact copy of a section of
Size: 47.5 x 104 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 200 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Shows the riverbank from the Sandy Bay area to the New Town area. APVA land is charted in detail with contour lines. Marshland, the church tower, and the graveyard are identified. An area at the southeastern corner of APVA land is identified as "Site tendered the United States by the A.P.V.A. for Monument" (ca. 0.88 acres). An adjacent area is identified as "Additional Land under consideration for the Site belonging to Mrs. Barney" (ca. 2.15 acres). The Road to Williamsburg crosses this latter area to connect to Jamestown Wharf. A second road, which comes from the bridge over Back River, crosses APVA land to the riverbank and proceeds to the southeast for about half a mile to a pier. The New Town area (not so labeled) has two structures and what appear to be trees positioned in such a pattern as to suggest an orchard. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 26.5 x 31 cm. Scale: 1 in. = ca. 140 ft. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. Shows the APVA property with State House Foundations, Fort, Church Tower, and Grave Yard. A rectangular area in the southeastern corner of the APVA property is labeled "Plat of land deeded to the United States of America by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities." This sketch is from James City County Plat Book 2:6. Available: CW, JCC
Size: 48 x 66 cm. Scale: ca. 1:13,500 (12 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Oriented with north toward upper left. On verso: maps of historical Virginia and Jamestown Island. Available: University of Kentucky
Size: 72 x 101 cm. Blueprint. Most of the sheet has details of the proposed pier. In the lower left corner there is a "Sketch Showing Locations of Existing & Proposed Piers" (32 x 14 cm.; 1 in. = 200 ft.) The eastern side of A.P.V.A. Grounds is shown, with church tower, graveyard, and a rectangular plot labeled Land Conveyed to United States by A.P.V.A. The area east of A.P.V.A. Grounds is identified as Land of Mrs. Louise J. Barney. The Road to Williamsburg follows the eastern boundary of A.P.V.A. Grounds to the existing pier labeled Barney Wharf. The Proposed Pier is about 300 feet west of Barney Wharf. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 32 x 44 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 200 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Shows the A.P.V.A. Grounds, bordered on the north and east by Land of Mrs. Louise J. Barney. A road crosses the APVA land from the north to the river. A U-shaped embankment or fortification is shown, as are the church tower and the graveyard. A rectangular plot at the southeastern corner of APVA land is labeled Land Conveyed to United States by A.P.V.A. The Road to Williamsburg follows the eastern boundary of APVA land to Barney Wharf. The proposed wharf is about 300 feet west of Barney Wharf. A small rectangular plot at the land end of the proposed wharf is hatch marked to indicate "land which the A.P.V.A. is requested to convey to the United States for wharf terminal." This map appears to be the source of the inset map on the sheet
Size: 34 x 48 cm. Scale: 1:125,000 (1 in. = ca. 2 miles) On verso: "Progress Map: Jamestown Exposition...Plan of Exposition Grounds and Buildings." Available: University of Arizona
Size: 40.5 x 30.5 cm. Scale: 1:40,000 (4 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Blueprint. Oriented with northwest at the top. Shows a section of the James River from the eastern end of Jamestown Island to Hog Island, including Cobham Bay. Depth curves at 6, 12, and 18 feet and numerous soundings are given. No features on Jamestown Island are labeled. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 51.5 x 42 cm. Scale: 1:62,500 (1 in. = ca. 1 mile) Extends from 37 & deg;N to 37 & deg;15'N and from 77 & deg;W to 76 & deg;45'W. A section of the James River from the Prince George County boundary to Jamestown Island extends across the top of the sheet. Approximately three-fourths of Jamestown Island is shown, from Church Point to Goose Hill. The island is separated from the mainland by Back River and The Thorofare. Most of the island appears to be marshland, but there are also some cleared areas and some wooded areas. Contour lines indicate a few small areas on the island that are above ten feet, but none as high as twenty feet. Contour lines offshore indicate that the river bottom drops sharply to more than twenty feet all along the southwest side of the island. On the mainland Powhatan Creek and a section of Mill Creek are indicated, as well as Old Earthworks near The Thorofare. A road approaches Jamestown Island through the marsh north of Back River, crosses the river onto the western end of the island, and proceeds to a steamboat dock at Jamestown. The steamboat route connects to Claremont Wharf to the west and to Scotland and Cobham Wharf to the south and east. Available: CW
Measured drawing (ink and graphite) showing the church as a plan. Available: Thomas Tileston Waterman Archive, Prints and Photographs Reading Room, LC
Size: 18 x 36 cm. Scale: 1 in. = ca. 1 mile Shows a section of the James River from the Chickahominy River to Hog Island, centering on Jamestown. This map appeared as an illustration in Sams' The Conquest of Virginia: The Second Attempt (ENTRY 370). It shows Jamestown as an island (no isthmus) and indicates some erosion. Most places named on the map were seventeenth-century sites. Available: CW
Size: 67.5 x 104.5 cm. Scale: 1:20,000 (8 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Blueprint. Extends from the mouth of the Chickahominy River to Hog Island. Proposed channels are charted in the river. Jamestown I. is separated from the mainland by Back River and The Thoroughfare. Church Point, Goose Hill, and Lower Point are indicated on the island. Creeks, marshland, and two piers at Church Point are also shown. Powhatan Creek, Mill Creek, and College Creek are identified on the mainland. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 70 x 103 cm. Blueprint. Most of the sheet is occupied by elevations and sections. On the left side there is a Location Map and a Vicinity Map. The Location Map (54 x 25.5 cm.; 1 in. = 50 ft.) shows the existing wharf and ferry slip and, ca. 200 feet to the west, the proposed wharf. The proposed wharf extends straight out into the James River from a monument, which is connected to the wharf by a proposed concrete walk. The Macadam Road to Williamsburg passes the east side of the monument and terminates at a Dirt Road which parallels the riverbank and connects to the existing wharf (east) and the proposed wharf (west). Numerous soundings are given around the proposed wharf. The Vicinity Map (13 x 25.5 cm.; 1:500,000) extends from Petersburg to the Chesapeake Bay and shows Jamestown Island with "location of proposed wharf and walk" at its western end. Available: CNHP, CW
Available: Marquette County Historical Society, Marquette, Michigan
Size: 124 x 148 cm. Blueprint. Working drawing of an archaeological site on Jamestown Island, Colonial National Historical Park. Includes listing of important artifacts found. Available: Thomas Tileston Waterman Archive, Prints and Photographs Reading Room, LC
Size: 40 x 51 cm. Includes inset of England, index to points of interest, text, coats of arms, and colored illustrations. Drawings by Albert T. Reid. Available: LC
Size: 58.5 x 108.5 cm. Scale: 1:40,000 (4 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Extends from 37 & deg;10'N to 37 & deg;20'N and from 77 & deg;14'W to 76 & deg;46'W. An inset, Continuation of Chickahominy River, extends to 37 & deg;26'N. Only the western end of Jamestown I. is shown, separated from the mainland by Back River. Church Point, a monument, and a ferry dock are indicated. A road approaches through the marsh to the north, crosses Back River onto the island, and proceeds to the ferry and then to the southeast. Powhatan Creek is indicated on the mainland. Soundings, beacons, buoys, and dangers are indicated in waterways. Available: CW
Size: 84 x 68.5 cm. (CW copy, incomplete) Scale: 1:10,000 (16 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Shows Swann Point, Powhatan Creek and all but the eastern end of Jamestown Island (37 & deg;11'N to 37 & deg;15'N and 76 & deg;49'W to 76 & deg;45'W). Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by Back River and The Thorofare. Areas of marsh, brush and grass are indicated, as are trees, creeks, and ponds. Church Point, Jamestown (Village), Goose Hill, and Lower Point are identified. Landmarks and topographic stations are indicated all along the waterfront, including Government Wharf and the Ferry Slip. The road onto Jamestown Island crosses a Fixed Wooden Bridge over Back River. Other roads and trails on the island are indicated. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 15 x 33.5 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 500 ft. Shows a section of Back River from the bridge on route 31 to The Thoroughfare. Jamestown Island is not identified, but the part that is outlined is labeled Commonwealth of Virginia. On the mainland a section of the Colonial Parkway is charted, and two sites are labeled Old Fort. This drawing is from James City County Plat Book 9:38. It may be a reduction of the original since dimensions do not seem to match the indicated scale. Available: CW, JCC
Size: 53 x 43 cm. Scale: 1:62,500 (1 in. = ca. 1 mile) Extends from 37 & deg;N to 37 & deg;15'N and from 76 & deg;45'W to 76 & deg;30'W. The chart shows a section of the James River from the eastern end of Jamestown Island to the mouths of the Warwick and Pagan rivers. Yorktown and Gloucester Point on the York River are indicated in the upper right corner of the sheet. Approximately one-fourth of Jamestown Island is shown, from Lower Point to Black Point at the extreme eastern end. The Thorofare separates this part of the island from the mainland. Passmore Creek is identified, and most of the eastern end of the island is shown to be marshland. The island is labeled Colonial National Historical Park, as is a strip of land along the riverbank on the mainland. Mill Creek and College Creek also are indicated on the mainland. Available: CW
Size: 53.5 x 43 cm. Scale: 1:62,500 (1 in. = ca. 1 mile) Differs little from the 1919 printing. There are no offshore contour lines and no green shading for woodlands. Jamestown National Historic Site is indicated at the western end of Jamestown Island; the rest of the island is labeled Colonial National Historical Park. Glass House Point is indicated on the mainland at the mouth of Powhatan Creek. Available: CW
Size: 102 x 162 cm. Scale: 1:10,000 (16 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Shows detailed soundings in the James River, Back River, The Thorofare, and Passmore Creek. Lower Point and Church Point are indicated on Jamestown Island. There are also numerous triangulation points and other landmarks, such as dock ruins, stakes, and snags, around the perimeter of the island. Insets show soundings in Powhatan Creek and Mill Creek. Another inset (26 x 22 cm.; scale 1:1,000) shows soundings around two wharves at Jamestown: Government Wharf and, about 200 feet to the east, Ferry Wharf. The end of Government Wharf is labeled Church Point Light. At the end of Ferry Wharf there is an area identified as ruins. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 76 x 107 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 200 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east-northeast at the top. Shows Glasshouse Point and the western end of Jamestown Island with two schemes for a proposed roadway crossing. The existing road, which approached the island across Back River, is partially indicated. A Conf. fort, a monument, and the existing ferry landing are also identified. On Glasshouse Point the site of a colonial glasswork and a proposed new ferry landing are shown. The lower half of the sheet is occupied by a profile and sections of the proposed roadway. A second sheet is a copy of the original drawing, revised on February 18, 1969, to show the actual causeway as built. Available: CW
Size: 68.5 x 56 cm. Scale: 1:24,000 (6.7 cm. = 1 mile) Extends from 37 & deg;7'30"N to 37 & deg;15'N and from 76 & deg;52'30"W to 76 & deg;45'W. A section of the James River from the mouth of the Chickahominy River to Jamestown Island extends across the sheet. Approximately three-fourths of Jamestown Island is shown, from Church Point to Lower Point. The island is separated from the mainland by Back River and The Thorofare. Most of the island is shown to be about equal parts marshland and woods, with cleared land indicated only around Jamestown. Also indicated on the island are Jamestown National Historic Site, Colonial National Historical Park, ruins and a monument at Jamestown, Pyping Point, Back River Marsh, Pitch and Tar Swamp, Kingsmill Creek, Passmore Creek, Goose Hill, and earth ruins. Indicated on the mainland are Glass House Point, Powhatan Creek, sections of Lake Powell and Mill Creek, and a strip of land included in Colonial National Historical Park. Route 31, also labeled Rolfe Highway, approaches Jamestown Island through the marsh north of Back River, crosses the river onto the western end of the island, and proceeds to a ferry dock at Jamestown. The ferry connects to Scotland across the James River. The area off the northwestern tip of Jamestown Island, where Back River and Powhatan Creek enter the James River, is identified as Sandy Bay. There are depth curves and soundings in the river. Available: CW
Size: 107.5 x 90.5 cm. Scale: 1:40,000 (4 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Extends from 36 & deg;53'N to 37 & deg;14'N and from 76 & deg;47'W to 76 & deg;25'W. An inset, Continuation of Nansemond River, extends to 36 & deg;44'N at Suffolk. Jamestown Island is separated from the mainland by Back River and The Thorofare. Church Point, Jamestown, a monument, a ferry dock, Passmore Creek, Goose Hill, and Lower Point are indicated. A road approaches through the marsh north of Back River, crosses the river onto the western end of the island, and proceeds to the ferry and then across the island to the extreme eastern point (unlabeled). Green shading indicates marsh. Powhatan Creek, Mill Creek, and College Creek are indicated on the mainland. Soundings, buoys, beacons, and dangers are indicated in waterways. Goose Hill Channel is charted in the James River south and east of Jamestown Island. Available: CW
Size: 33 x 43 cm. Oriented with north toward the upper left corner. A reproduction in the style of early seventeenth-century cartography, based on historical records of the period. Available: Cornell University
Size: 52 x 106 cm. Scale: 4.3 cm. = 100 ft. Oriented with northeast at the top. Extends from the Confederate Fort to just west of Orchard Run and from the James River to Pitch and Tar Swamp. The Ludwell-Statehouse Group is shown in an inset. The map is drawn on a grid of 100-foot squares oriented to true north. Archaeological excavations in the 1930s and 1950s are indicated. Buildings, wells, ditches, and refuse pits are depicted and numbered. This map, folded and in a pocket, accompanies John L. Cotter's
Size: 68.5 x 56 cm. Scale: 1:24,000 (6.7 cm. = 1 mile) Extends from 37 & deg;7'30"N to 37 & deg;15'N and from 76 & deg;45'W to 76 & deg;37'30"W. The chart shows a section of the James River from the eastern end of Jamestown Island to Carter's Grove. Approximately one-fourth of Jamestown Island is shown, from Lower Point to Black Point at the extreme eastern end. The Thorofare separates this part of the island from the mainland. Passmore Creek and Travis Cemetery are also indicated. Most of this part of the island is shown to be marshland, but there is wooded area on the north side. On the mainland the Colonial National Historical Parkway runs along the shore. Mill Creek, Lake Powell, the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport, College Creek, and Halfway Creek are also indicated. Available: CW
Size: 68.5 x 56 cm. Scale: 1:24,000 (6.7 cm. = 1 mile) Covers the same area as the 1953 Surry chart (ENTRY 1036). Island features are very similar to those on the earlier chart. There is no ferry dock on the island, however, and a more extensive network of roads is indicated across the island. A museum, a cemetery, and a visitor center are identified at Jamestown. Most of the non-marsh area of the island is enclosed in five-foot contour lines, and two small areas are shown to be above ten feet. The road onto the island is now the Colonial National Historical Parkway, which crosses a causeway and bridge connecting Glass House Point to Church Point and separating Sandy Bay from the James River. On the mainland, route 31 has been diverted to a new ferry dock near Jamestown Festival Park, just north of Glass House Point. Available: CW
Size: 132 x 56 cm. (printed on both sides) Scale: ca. 1:39,000 (4 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Includes a schedule of the Jamestown-Scotland ferry, and a street index.
Size: 61 x 116 cm. Scale: 1:25,000 (6 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Relief shown by contours and spot heights; depths shown by isolines and soundings. Includes notes, inset (Swanns Point area), location map, and colored illustrations; text and colored illustrations on verso.
Size: 40 x 42 cm. Scale: ca. 1:75,000 (2 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Includes text and colored illustrations. On verso: text, maps of
Size: 58 x 89 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 200 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Shows Sandy Bay and approximately one-half mile both north and south of the causeway, including all of the APVA property. Almost all of the charted area that is not a part of Jamestown Island has been crossed out, and erasures also are evident. Apparently the seawall repair plan was drawn on an amended 1954 chart. A marsh, a road, contour lines, and what appears to be a monument pedestal are all that are indicated on the APVA property. A Location Map inset (18.5 x 22 cm.) extends from Smithfield to Yorktown and from Jamestown Island to Newport News. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 76 x 107 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 30 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with northeast at the top. Shows approximately 900 feet of the riverbank beginning just west of the Dale Craft House and extending to the southeast past two granite monuments. Trees, park benches, a gravel road, elevations, and soundings are indicated. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 76 x 107 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 30 ft. Blueprint. Oriented with east at the top. Shows approximately 1000 feet of the riverbank extending north from the Dale Craft House. Among features indicated are brick foundations and a brick monument. Elevations and soundings are given. Available: CNHP, CW
Size: 49 x 64 cm. (both sides used) Includes zip codes, population information, and index.
Size: 28 x 40 in. Three maps: South County (Parkway/Skiffes Creek); Mid-County (Lightfoot/Jamestown); North County (Lanexa/Lightfoot). Available: Williamsburg Regional Library
Size: 54 x 75 cm. Scale: 1:20,750 (8 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Includes the river valley from the vicinity of Farmville to the vicinity of Jamestown. Relief shown pictorially. From surveys under the direction of N. Michler, by command of A.A. Humphreys, 1867. Available: Northern Illinois University
Size: 87 x 112 cm. (both sides used) Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Relief shown by contours. Includes tidal information and a table of channel depths.
Size: 100 x 84 cm. Scale: 1:40,000 (4 cm. = ca. 1 mile) Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Relief shown by contours. Tidal information included. Insets include Back River and College Creek.
Shows a tour of Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Jamestown given for military officers of allied countries to provide insight into American heritage.
Presents an elementary schoolteacher's record of her seven-day colonial tour of the Old Dominion, with historical narration. The tour includes visits to Yorktown battlefields; the College of William and Mary and the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg; and reconstructions of James Fort and the three ships at Jamestown Settlement. Narrated by Sidney Berry.
Outlines the development of American industry from Jamestown and other settlements to modern factories.
Describes the protection of the American pioneers at Jamestown, and shows how craftsmen made arms.
1 reel (17 min.)Depicts the exploration of early Virginia, adventures with the Indians, and the Pocahontas story as told by the 'voice' of John Smith's statue in Jamestown.
Follows the career of John Smith, whose influence and leadership contributed to the establishment of the English colony at Jamestown in 1607. Traces the events in England which preceded the colonists' voyage to Virginia, and shows the natural and human obstacles faced by Smith in his efforts to launch the settlement.
Traces the history of common law in the United States from its establishment at Jamestown in 1607 to modern times. Relates common law to our contemporary lives and our democratic freedoms.
Selected footage taken before and during the Festival.Edited by Richard L. Speers.
Shows craftsmen at work building the first houses of Jamestown.
A documentary of the naval review during the 1957 Jamestown Festival in which eighteen nations participated with aircraft, 100 ships, and 12,000 men. The theme of the review was "Freedom of the Seas."
Presents the story of Jamestown from its founding until the early eighteenth century. (See ENTRY 1080 for the videocassette version of this film.)
Describes the history of Jamestown from its beginnings in 1607 through its ninety years of prominence.
Records the early history of Jamestown through reconstructions at the Jamestown Festival of 1957, showing the voyage of the first settlers from England, and emphasizing the faith and dedication required of them and later arrivals in overcoming hardships in America and in permanently establishing their colonyAlso produced on videocassette.
Footage of the international naval review of 1907 during the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, showing some of the decorated battleships (including the US
Tells how the Jamestown colony found economic prosperity in tobacco planting. Uses John Rolfe as the central character in dramatizing the struggle between the aspirations of the colonists for self-government and the need for a strong central government during the early years. Shows the development of plantations in the Jamestown settlement and the creation of the first legislative body in the New World. Photographed in and near the reconstructed Jamestown fort. Released later as a videorecording (ENTRY 1083).
Portrays the establishment of the first permanent English colony in America.
From a weekly documentary series devoted to American industry. This episode looks at historic sites, museums, factories, industrial plants and other places where visitors may view manufacturing processes or objects used in manufacturing or industry. It includes footage of an apothecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg and glassblowing in Jamestown.
An animated and highly fictionalized treatment of the relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith. Written by Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, and Philip LaZebnik; music and original score by Alan Menken; lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; art direction by Michael Giaimo.
The adventures of a 13-year-old boy who is given to the Indians by the Jamestown settlers as a token of friendship. Pocahontas and the young braves of Powhatan's household help the boy learn the language, skills, and customs of the tribe, a knowledge which he later uses to serve the Virginia colony.Photographed in and near the reconstructed Jamestown fort.
Presents a vacation trip to historic attractions in Virginia and Washington, D.C. Places visited include Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, and James River plantations.
Traces the years across Virginia's historic peninsula from the landing at Jamestown to victory at Yorktown. Uses maps, old prints, historic paintings, and color photographs to view people, places, and events important to America's heritage.
Outlines the settlement of the colonies from Jamestown in 1607, describes the causes and beginning of the Revolution, and recreates the Battle of Yorktown.
A visual exploration of two of America's most important colonial settlements.
This program begins with the arrival of twenty Africans forcibly brought to Jamestown in 1619 and examines the impact of slavery on African-Americans. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln explains the importance of African roots for African-Americans and shows how the African cultural heritage--music, dance, art, storytelling--is manifested in American life.
This is the videocassette release of the 1975 motion picture by the National Park Service (ENTRY 1064).
Photography taken on location is used to introduce students (grades 3-6) to how the people of early Jamestown lived, worked, and played. Based on a 1979 filmstrip (ENTRY 1102).
Tells the story of the settlement at Jamestown in three segments: "Three Ships Sailing into History" portrays the first voyage to the coast of Virginia; "Jamestown" describes the hardships and difficulties facing the new settlers; "Jamestown Churches" explains the role of religion in the new colony, using descriptions of the first temporary church and subsequent wooden churches.
Used by teachers as a pre-visit video to prepare classes for field trips to Jamestown.
This is the videocassette release of the 1958 motion picture by Encyclopaedia Britannica (ENTRY 1068).
An historical overview of the Jamestown settlement, as told from the perspective of John Laydon, one of the few settlers to survive the first harsh years. Produced by the Virginia Department of Education and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Written by Melinda Skinner.
An animated treatment with words and music by Richard Hurwitz and John Arrias, screenplay by Julia Lewald.
Narration and introduction by Joe Gutierrez.
Tells how in 1985 the replica ship
A tour of three historical restorations.
Topics include Colonial Crafts and Industries, Colonial Government, Comparison of Plantation and Town, French and Indian War, How a Colony Grows, Jamestown: A Company Colony, Slavery in the Colonies, Southern Colonies, Triangular Trade, and Virginia: A Crown Colony.
Describes the first English settlers and the historic events in Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown.
Describes the route of the Colonial Parkway which connects Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown; illustrates the historical importance of these three towns.
European footholds in new world, lost colony of Virginia, Jamestown, dissension, relations with Indians, 'starving time,' introduction of tobacco, prosperity in Virginia.
Describes the background of the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1606 and the plans and arrangements made by the first settlers for the voyage. Traces the route taken and depicts the landing and an attack by Indians. Shows the building of the fort and life in Jamestown through the final shaping of laws and discipline.
Twelve charts and maps, including Agriculture and Industries in the Colonies, English and Dutch Explorations, European Claims in the New World, Jamestown and the Virginia Colony, The Middle Colonies, The Original Thirteen Colonies, and The Southern Colonies.
Shows views of Jamestown, describing the background of the settlers and how they constructed the fort.
A reconstruction of the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in America. Shows the struggles of the colonists, led by Sir Thomas Dale, to survive against threats of Indian attacks. Describes the capture of Pocahontas and her marriage to John Rolfe, thus ending Powhatan's war and bringing stability to Jamestown.
Part 1 gives background information covering the early years in Jamestown and how John Smith barely saved the colony. Part 2 covers the colony's rapid growth after tobacco became its major crop and the problem of finding enough laborers to run the plantations.
1) The First Permanent English Colony (54 frames) 2) At the Edge of Disaster (48 frames) 3) The Seeds of American Democracy (54 frames)
This was released in 1990 in videorecording format (ENTRY 1081).
1) Arriving at Jamestown 2) James Fort 3) Struggle in the Wilderness 4) Life in Early Jamestown
The story of Tom Savage, an English orphan boy, whose exciting adventures illustrate the problems the Jamestown settlers had with the Indians. Shows a fierce battle with the Indians and describes many of the customs of the Powhatans.
1) Jamestown: The First Permanent English Colony (55 frames) 2) Jamestown: At the Edge of Disaster (48 frames) 3) Jamestown: The Seeds of American Democracy (55 frames) 4) Williamsburg: A New Capital (46 frames) 5) Williamsburg: Life in Colonial Virginia (39 frames)
Outlines the major economic problems of Jamestown, showing the effects of selfishness and laziness. Describes how the Virginia Company tried to develop trade to pay the expenses of the project and reap benefits for the shareholders in England. Explains that a lack of industrial and agricultural experience almost ruined the colony, and that John Rolfe's development of tobacco as a trade crop saved the colony.
Examines the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, focusing on the daily life of the settlers and the particular problems that they faced.
Offers a description of Jamestown from 1619 to the present.
Views the early Virginia settlement, the colonial capital, and the revolutionary battlefield.
Shows the daily life of the first successful English colony on North American shores. Indicates the role of tobacco and the contribution of indentured servants and slaves.
Describes various aspects of life in Jamestown: the constant struggle for survival, the spreading of settlements along the river, trade and barter, and the gradual development of self-government. Shows the meeting of the first House of Burgesses in 1619.
Relates the life of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at JamestownAdapted from the book by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire.
Traces the history of the Jamestown colony from its origin in England to its abandonment as the American frontier moved westward. Illustrated by Fran Matera; narrated by Bernard Kates. Based on the book written by Marilyn Prolman and published by Children's Press (ENTRY 890).
Discusses the colonization of Virginia, emphasizing the establishment of Jamestown and the subsequent movement inland along the James and York rivers. Traces the consolidation of Virginia until the time of the American Revolution.
Paintings and views of the Jamestown settlement and surrounding area.
Sites depicted include Jamestown.
Presents a tour of Jamestown, including Powhatan's lodge, Jamestown Festival Park, and statues of John Cabot, King Henry VIII, and Pocahontas.
Views of the historic Jamestown settlement.
Dr. Carey, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, focuses on the early English settlements at Roanoke and Jamestown to show that biological exchange had disastrous consequences for native Americans. He concludes that enteric fever, and not malaria as was previously thought, was responsible for the high mortality rates among early colonists. Introductory remarks by Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Linda Watson.
A history of the Jamestown colony.
Based on the book of the same title (ENTRY 862).
Gives a brief history and description of houses and other sites in Jamestown. Designed to be used as a guide for a walking tour.
Describes life in Jamestown and some of the historical events that make Jamestown's tradition so prominent.
Edited and narrated by Philip L. Barbour with Nigel Davenport and supporting cast.
Two English children are told the story of their grandfather's experiences as one of the original Jamestown colonists. Based on the book of the same title (ENTRY 880).
Deals with the life of the Pilgrims who sailed to America on the Mayflower, and describes life and hardships in Jamestown and Plymouth.
Explains how the first Jamestown winter nearly destroyed all of the settlers and how Captain John Smith disciplined the people severely in order to save their lives.
Book by Laurence Santrey; illustrated by David Wenzel (ENTRY 895).
A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists. Based on the book of the same title by Jan Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson (ENTRY 865).
"The record dramatizes the role that the state of Virginia has played in the history of our nation from the Jamestown landing in 1607 to man's landing and walk on the moon."
Four songs written independently by Stutz and Lindeman for the 350th anniversary of Jamestown. The song titles are "Three Ships," "Jamestown," "Pocahontas," and "The Old Church Tower."
Stories from Virginia history, including Jamestown, Captain John Smith, and Bacon's Rebellion.
Among the songs is "Jamestown Ferry."
A nineteenth-century depiction of the ruins of the church tower at Jamestown. Black and white reproduction:
A view of the church tower at Jamestown.
Depicts life at the Jamestown settlement.
The original was painted by John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1889).
Views of Jamestown and the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, by D. H. Anderson, B. W. Kilburn, and the Keystone View Company, including: ruins of the church and the church yard; a military parade passing the Palace of Liberal Arts, April 26, 1907; crowds on the Lee Parade Grounds; President Theodore Roosevelt and entourage, in top hats and bowlers, arriving at the exposition grounds on opening day; ships in Hampton Roads; Pamunkey Indians re-enacting Pocahontas pleading for the life of John Smith; the Smithsonian diorama of John Smith trading with the Indians.
A strategic simulation adventure about the Jamestown settlement. Players, as English colonists, must establish and manage a successful plantation, manage a work force made up of indentured servants and slaves, predict and deal effectively with the forces of nature, oversee tobacco crops, and develop and maintain good relationships with the Indians. The teacher's guide includes curriculum suggestions for grades five, eight and eleven. Available in MAC version 1.0 and version 1.01 for DOS.
"Through this program become familiar with the history of the settlement of James Towne."
Includes a bibliographyUpdates with results of additional testing in January-February 2000 by Andrew J. Butts.
Prepared for David Orr, National Park Service, Philadelphia, by Bruce Bevan, Geosight, Pitman, N.J. This survey, using ground-penetrating radar and a resistivity pseudosection, was conducted on properties of the APVA and the National Park Service. A number of underground features were located, but none suggests the early triangular fort.
Prepared for Marley Brown III, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, by Bruce Bevan, Geosight, Pitman, N.J. Geophysical tests were conducted on Jamestown Island in the settlement area and in the Black Point area. The tests involved ground-penetrating radar, magnetometer, resistivity, and conductivity surveys. The radar appears to be the most successful at locating important features, while the magnetometer is second best; but the conductivity survey might be more valuable than the magnetic survey in locating prehistoric features. A final evaluation of the relative utility of these surveys, however, will be possible only after the completion of test excavations. Bibliography: 40.
Prepared for Marley Brown III, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, by Bruce Bevan, Geosight, Pitman, N.J. This supplement to the final report of
Includes a bibliography.
Reports on late 1993 efforts at the northeastern corner of Jamestown Island to assess the efficacy of remote sensing techniques through ground truthing and to evaluate the effectiveness of shovel testing at 20-meter intervals as a means of identifying archaeological sites. Preliminary results on remote sensing were inconclusive but indicated that greater discretion in site selection would be appropriate. It was found that shovel testing at 20-meter intervals would identify virtually all sites. Three new archaeological sites were recorded in the four hectare (10 acre) area subjected to the trial survey.
A progress report on the island-wide archaeological survey involving shovel testing at twenty-meter intervals. With completion of the survey near, fifty sites have been identified and some patterns have become clear. The island has experienced human settlement for as long as the species has been present in the region, leaving a record 100 centuries long. Pre-colonial settlement was characterized by short-term, seasonal forays and affected by changes in the natural environment, especially those involving sea level. Outlying settlement in the seventeenth century consisted of small farmsteads which were consumed by larger plantation holdings in the eighteenth century. Settlement dwindled in the nineteenth century when the major sites were Civil War fortifications. A version of this paper was presented at the 1995 Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Conference.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes a bibliography.
Computerized geographic information systems (GISs) offer a powerful tool for the storage and analysis of the diverse sets of information created in multidisciplinary archaeological projects. GISs provide both sophisticated data management and archiving and a geographic component which allows this information to be related to the analytic units to which archaeologists are accustomed--structures, features, and excavation squares. The potential uses of this form of information management are described with examples from the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment. Using GeoSys, a system developed by English archaeologist Dominic Powlesland, the advantages of geographic information management are illustrated for collection, data analysis, and the final overall site archive.
Describes preliminary results of 1993 investigations involving remote sensing, excavations, and vegetation studies.
Describes the use of AutoCAD, a desktop architectural and mechanical drawing software, in combining documentary and cartographic information to reconstruct land boundaries and identify the structures associated with archaeological excavations. A version of this article, under the title "Using Computers to Reconstruct Historic Jamestown," appeared in the
A progress report on investigations and discoveries.
A discussion of the overall goals of the Jamestown Project.
Includes a bibliography.
Brief summary of 1993 excavations for the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment.
Uses research from the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment to establish a "connection" between Jamestown and a developing English town of the seventeenth century.
An overview of the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment, with emphasis on the development of the town in the seventeenth century.
Reports on a study of an early industrial, or craft, enclave in the northwest portion of New Towne. The study involves the reanalysis of artifacts and documentation from earlier excavations, combined with historical research and information garnered through current, predominantly nonintrusive, archaeological exploration. Efforts to create manufacturing at Jamestown appear to have been spearheaded by individuals and to have continued after tobacco emerged as Virginia's chief export product. An early proponent of manufacturing was Governor John Harvey, who has been associated with the northwest enclave area where evidence suggests sites for distilling medicinal remedies and producing bricks and pottery. This article is a summary of part of the author's doctoral dissertation in the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (ENTRY 69). A version of this article, under the title "'By Our Industry and Plantation of Comodious Merchandize:' Early Manufacturing at Jamestown," appeared in the
Describes a case study undertaken as part of the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment. In order to understand the nature of industrial development at Jamestown, the case study focused on an early industrial zone in the northwest portion of New Towne. The enclave, which was linked to Governor John Harvey in the 1630s, reveals evidence of a structure used as a brewhouse and apothecary as well as a structure housing kilns for brick, tile, and pottery production. The eventual failure of the craft activities in the enclave zone highlights both the extent to which development at Jamestown was linked to individuals and also the difficulties encountered when attempting to create alternative commodities to tobacco.
A condensed version of a paper presented at the 1994 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference meetings in Ocean City, Maryland. Includes bibliographical references.
England's settlement at Jamestown could be called the South's first urban planning disaster. Current archaeological research, however, is allowing for a critical analysis of this legendary "failure." Evidence of abandoned industries and speculatively-built houses highlights a concerted, if ultimately unsuccessful, effort to create an urban settlement reflective of British ports and industrial centers. Comparative analysis of development and demographics in Jamestown with those in other seventeenth-century British towns provides a context within which to understand the expectations of Virginia's urban planners and to evaluate the nature of urbanism in the colonial South. Includes bibliographical references.
Includes a bibliography.
A summary of 1993 fieldwork in terms of its goals and tentative conclusions.
Includes a bibliography.
Includes bibliographical references.
Describes that part of the Jamestown Project which involves the analysis of artifact collections from prior excavations to assist researchers in developing a more accurate interpretation.
The newsletter of the archaeological assessment project funded by the National Park Service and administered by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the College of William and Mary. The newsletter is intended to provide progress reports on some of the various sub-projects in order to keep scholars informed of the most current findings. Conclusions are necessarily tentative.
Includes bibliographical references.
Man has made nearly continuous use of Jamestown Island for 11,000 years. With the Holocene rise of sea level, the landscape and aquatic environments have changed. These alterations have influenced human uses of the area. At the beginning of the Holocene, Jamestown stood more than 30 meters above the James River. Archaeological evidence indicates that Paleoindian and Archaic people frequented the "island" and its now-submerged fringes. These sites outnumber those post-dating 3,000 years BP by 2 to 1. By 5,000 years BP, sea level had risen to approximately -7 meters. The James had widened and become tidal and brackish. Marshes quickly closed in along freshwater streams. The ephemeral nature of Middle and Late Woodland sites is attributed in part to the decline in fresh surface-water. In 1607 sea level was 0.6 to 0.9 meters lower than today, and the western end of Jamestown still was connected to the mainland. By the end of the seventeenth century, erosion had severed this connection. The progressive inundation probably contributed to the decline of agriculture on the island during the nineteenth century.
A preliminary report on the geology of the island, outlining the geomorphic and stratigraphic setting and the geologic history of the area.
Includes bibliographical references.
Pollen analysis of historical archaeological deposits is difficult in the South where there is no season of frozen ground to retard pollen percolation and protect pollen from the oxygen in groundwater. The comparative pollen analysis of profile and artifact samples from Refuse Pit 1, however, indicate that data relative to both local edaphic and land-use conditions and more regional land-use trends can be recovered from under flat stones and artifacts and from the corrosion influenced sediment immediately surrounding metal artifacts in deposits where pollen exposed to percolation does not survive. The text of a paper presented at the 1994 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference meetings in Ocean City, Maryland. For a later, expanded version of this article, see ENTRY 1180. Includes bibliographical references.
A berm at the west side of a field on the north edge of Jamestown Island, on a parcel once owned by Richard Kingsmill, was selected for exploratory pollen analysis. The objectives were to determine the quality of pollen preservation in and under the berm, to examine the pollen spectrum created by the cultural process of throwing up the berm, and to ascertain the length of the pollen record under such relatively small earthworks in the Jamestown area. The data reveal that both the seventeenth-century pollen under the berm and some of that thrown up in constructing the berm are preserved, thus indicating that such earthworks are adequate to preserve seventeenth-century pollen from percolation and the agents of degradation. Includes bibliographical references.
Fort, Jamestown, Virginia." Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Pittsburgh, January 1996. Pollen analysis of deposits in a core from a ditch associated with the 1665 Turf Fort at Jamestown indicates bare, slightly weedy local conditions around artisan dwellings on the waterfront and the Virginia forest in the background before construction of the fort; goosefoot dominating the earthwork slope; close relatives of the goldenrods initially dominating the ditch bottom after construction; and the appearance of sedges recording wetter conditions later in the open-ditch period. Pollen percolation rates adjusted for plowing and applied to ragweed-type (Ambrosia-type) percentages suggest that cultivation over the ditch began ca. 1729, while pollen concentrations under archaeological backdirt served to separate pre- and post-1956 park vegetation records. Variations in pollen record formation processes critical to the preservation of the vegetation record suggest that pollen analysis may serve as an economical, nonintrusive substitute for extensive excavations in evaluations of non-threatened sites. [The authors] Includes bibliographical references.
A comparative study of a stratigraphic pollen profile exposed to the elements at the surface and a series of pollen samples sheltered by artifacts was conducted with materials from a seventeenth-century refuse pit at Jamestown. Pollen was recovered both from under rocks and artifacts lying flat or concave side down and from around iron objects. The shallowest pollen spectrum recovered from under an artifact was 25 cm. below the deepest pollen preserved in the exposed stratigraphic profile. No pollen was found in unsheltered pollen samples at the same depths as the artifacts. The distributions demonstrate that the pollen associated with the seventeenth-century artifacts is contemporaneous with those artifacts; it did not percolate down from later deposits. The artifact pollen spectra were arranged by depth into an artificial profile and appear to record a series of edaphic changes in the pit and a land-clearance episode in the Jamestown area. Includes bibliographical references.
Includes a bibliography. Includes database on slave holders and slaves.
The Jamestown assessment project's historian summarizes the early results of her efforts to compile the island's documentary history by systematically examining archival records from the United States and abroad. This article also appeared in the
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A summary of the rise and fall of Jamestown as a town during the seventeenth century.
Fragments of ceramic roofing tile from sites in Jamestown and Williamsburg were analyzed to determine links to three seventeenth-century brick and tile kilns, two in Jamestown and one at Bruton Heights in Williamsburg. Roofing tile from Structure 102, one of the Jamestown kilns, and Structure 111, a trash pit, were determined to be related. Likewise, the waster tile recovered from Structure 100 on the Page-Chiles tract was linked to Structure 65, the kiln located nearby. Unexpectedly, Structure 21 was linked to the Bruton Heights kiln. While the results are intriguing, they are only preliminary. The sample size should be increased and more sites included before the results can be considered valid. Includes bibliographical references.
Discusses the results of the contextual analysis of Refuse Pit 1, including interpretation of the feature's landscape data and stratigraphic development and evidence of possible plant use in the area. A modified version of a paper presented at the 1994 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference meetings in Ocean City, Maryland.
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Provides an overview of the Jamestown project, with emphasis on the role played by the museum collection and archives at Jamestown.
Describes how the Jamestown museum collection and archives at the Colonial National Historical Park are being used in the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment.
Presents insights on how to incorporate information from an archaeological assessment into public interpretive programs.
Includes discussion of the potter, or potters, working at Jamestown from ca. 1630-1645, as well as other potters whose products have been found in Jamestown contexts. Artifacts are used to provide evidence of forms and methods. Includes bibliographical references.
A brief description of the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment project. Photographs by Tony Belcastro.
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