Virginia
Chesapeake Prehistory
Annotated page from Travels through the states of North America.
Indians spear fishing
Indian chief
Fighting alligators
Planting Crops
Indigenous people
Indian village
Indian village
Pocahontas from Love will find the way: the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
The public reading room in the Library of Congress from Thirty years in Washington.
The Westover Manuscripts
In 1728, William Byrd II, a prominent Virginia planter and colonial official, was appointed to a commission to delineate the disputed border between Virginia and North Carolina. His history, published for the first time over 100 years later in this work, gives an excellent description of the region, although his possibly biased characterization of North Carolinians emphasizes their indolence, lack of religion, poverty, and disrespect for law and order.
Relation Historique de la Virginie
Written by a native Virginian and published originally in English in 1705, Beverley's work is considered the most important and reliable history of early life in the Virginia colony. He was a clerk of the council of Virginia about 1697, and his history covers all aspects of life in Virginia, including the best contemporary account of the Native American tribes and the life of its early settlers. The engraved plates are based (at several removes) on 16th-century drawings by John White.
