An Inventory of Records for the Virtual Jamestown Project:

 

 

 

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1) Rockefeller Library (Colonial Williamsburg)

2) Library of Virginia,

3) Virginia Historical Society

4) Virginia Colonial Records Project

5) Alderman Library (University of Virginia)

6) Huntington Library

7) Selected Printed Sources

 

 

 

5) ALDERMAN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

OLD CARD CATALOG OF 17TH CENTURY HOLDINGS (Shifflett)

 

The following material was inventoried from the old cards in Special Collections card catalogue and contains the most significant documentary material listed, some of which may not yet be in the electronic card catalog.

 

3834 Thomas Dale Letter, May 25, 1611, to Va Co; first impressions of Jamestown

 

38-548  Sir Edwin Sandys.  3 items.  Photocopy from L.O.C. from originals at Magdalene College, 1619 to Nicholas Farrar

 

1123 William Strachey Commonplace Book.  Ca. 1615-1628

 

9202 Robert Rich Warwick Papers, 1607-24.  Letters and documents as evidence of mismanagement in the colony by the Va Co

 

8963  John Cook Wyllie.  Varying versions of James I's commission for Virginia.  9 May 1623

 

10197  Copies, 1976 of County Dorset Apprenticeship Indentures to two merchants in Md. & Va, 1683-1689.  17 Items

 

38-579  Sir William Berkeley 1608-1677.  Land grant to Bartholomew Hoskins for 810 acres.

 

8993-d  Norfolk County, Va.  1637-1755.  6 reels microfilm.  Deed books, 1637-46; 1675-1703; Wills & deeds, 1646-1675; court orders, 1675-1686.

 

2261  1625-1649.  House of Burgesses:  Act VII, 1644, Feb 17, to prohibit deserting of plantations.  Transcript (handwritten)

 

2204-a  Nathanial Bacon.  Note Oct. 27, 1674, to Ph. Ballard

 

2782  Sir William Berkeley Papers 1664-1676, includes N. Bacon's "Declaration of the People."  Other family papers beside the Berkeley family papers include the Landon Carter Papers,  the Cocke Family Papers (1650-1674), Edward Wilson James Papers (1635-1906) with 5 wills and list of tithables.

 

3879  John Eliot Letter, Aug 22, 1673, to Thomas Shepard.  Gospel work among the Indians

 

1402  William Fitzhugh.  Marriage contract, Aug 26, 1674, of Fitzhugh and Rose Garrard. 

 

5103  Surry County, Va.  List of tithables 1668-1698.

 

6075  William Aylett, Bill of Lading.  8 hogsheads tobacco from Va to London, May 15, 1678

 

10301  Frances Berkeley.  Aug 9, 1677, to Sir William Berkeley.  Lady Berkeley reports to her husband on conditions in Va after his recall to England in the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion

 

7289  William Blathway Papers.  Correspondence 1683-1696 from N. Bacon and William Byrd regarding Virginia's finances

 

1856  Arnout van Citters.  Letter, Sept 28, 1686 to James II, from Citters, Dutch ambassador to Great Britain, regarding the release of Augustin Van Duren, Dutch citizen sold as a slave to a tobacco planter

 

7855-b  John Copeland Letter 4 Mar 1688.  A Quaker merchant in England reports on conditions in Va, the tobacco crop; notation of land rents paid.

 

9425-a  Paul Phillips Hoffman.  Shipping Records, 1678-1706, cf. Goods exported from Va

 

6066  William Thornbury.  Bill of Lading, June 10, for tobacco shipped on relief from the Rappahannock to London

 

ALDERMAN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, 17TH CENTURY (Shifflett/Grady)

 

The following material was inventoried from the Special Collections electronic library catalog with a search on Jamestown and history.  There is a substantial body of material relating to the celebrations, especially 1907.  All material that seemed to contain documents or original material has been included.  More recent (post-1925) secondary accounts were not listed.

 

Broadside, 1906. P47 1.  A Permanent Exposition:  Historic tidewater Virginia

 

Broadside, 1905. J25.  Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va opens April 26, 1907, closes Nov 30, 1907. 

 

Broadside 1907.P762 1.  Programme celebration of the Ter-Centennial (1607-1907)

 

A true relation of the State of Virginia efte by Sir Thomas Dale, knight, in May last 1616 by John Rolfe.  F229 .R82 1971

 

The Jamestown voyages under the first charter, 1606-1609:  documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October 1609; edited by Philip L. Barbour.  a 1847 .H35 2d ser. No. 136-37 1

 

Proceedings of the general assembly of Virginia July 30-August 4, 1619.  Written and sent from Virginia to England by Mr. John Pory...edited by William Van Schreeven and George H. Reese. J87 .V6 1969 2.

 

Teacher's guide to Jamestown.  F229 .J35 1963 1

 

Reading, Writing and arithmetic in Virginia 1607-1699:  other cultural topics by Susie M. Ames.  F229 .S93 1957 no. 14

 

A true discourse of the present state of Virginia.  By Ralph Hamor.  Reprinted from the London edition, 1615, with an introduction by A.L. Rouse.  F229 H2 1957

 

The three charters of the Virginia Company of London, with seven related documents:  1606-1621. With an introduction by Samuel M. Bemiss.  F229 .S93 1957 no.4 2

 

A selected bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699 by E.G. Swem and John M. Jennings, with the collaboration of James A. Servies.  F229 .S93 1957 no.1 2

 

Some notes on shipbuilding and shipping in colonial Virginia.  F229 .S93 1957 no.22 2

 

Seeds of liberty...In celebration of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in Virginia...The proceedings of that original assembly, meeting from July 30 to August 4, 1619.  Edited with intro by Earl Schenck Miers, drawings by Joseph Low.  F234.J3 V5 1957 1

 

Richmond times-dispatch.  F226 .R56 1957 1

 

Good news from Virginia, sent from James his towne this present moneth of March, 1623, by a gentleman in that country.  To the tune of All those that be good fellowes.  A 1624 (1940) .G66 1

 

The first printing in Virginia; the abortive attempt at Jamestown...the early gazettes, and the work of other Virginia typographic pioneers by Douglas C. McMurtrie.  Z209.V6 M22 1935.

 

The site of old "James Towne", 1607-1698:  A brief historical and topographical sketch of the first American metropolis/Illustrated with original maps, drawings and photographs.  F 229.Y58 1930 2

 

The conquest of Virginia:  the second attempt; an account based on original documents of the attempt under the king's form of government to found Virginia at Jamestown.  1606-1610.  By Conway Whittle Sams..F229.S243 1929 1

 

Broadside 1921 .A776 1.  The founding of the Colony at Jamestown...[Brief history of the Association with ms. Note in Mrs. Ellyson's hand re the naming of the ships Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery.

 

First permanent English settlements in America.  F229 .P25 1920 1

 

The Sulgrave Institution International Celebration at Norfolk, Virginia, October fifty, sixth, and seventh, 1920:  celebrating the three hundred and first anniversary of the first American legislative assembly held at Jamestown Virignia, July 30th, 1619.  F209.5 .S75 vol.1 no.29 1

 

Addresses at the 300th anniversary by Thomas Nelson Page (F221 v.70) and Claude A. Swanson (F221 v.18)

 

Colonial families of the United States of America...genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from 1607to April 19, 1775, ed by George Norbury Mackenzie CS 61 .M21

 

Isle of Wight County. 1608-1907.  F231 .I8 M8

 

Broadside 1907 .P76 Program for entertainment of press on opening day, April 25th. 1251 .E1 J

 

Historical exhibit of New York State at Jamestown....F221 v.392

 

Catalogue of the Massachusetts exhibit of colonial books at Jamestown Z 1251 .EI J3

 

The site of old "James Towne," 1607-1698:  A brief historical and topographical sketch ...by Samuel H. Yonge

 

The lower James:   A Sketch of certain colonial plantations by Edward Payson Terhune F234.J3 T4 1907

 

The cradle of the republic:  Jamestown and James River by Lyon Gardiner Tyler A 1906 .T95

 

Broadside 1905 .U56 Proclamation of President Roosevelt

 

Jamestown, the cradle of the United States of America.  F229 .A85 1901

 

Jamestown, Va. Maps [manuscript], 1900-1907.  MSS 38-591

 

Virginia and Virginians; eminent Virginians, executives of the colony of Virginia, from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore.  Executives of the state of Virginia, from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh...F 225 .B7

 

 Description of the marriage of Pocahontas (with key plate) at Jamestown, Va, April 1613.  From the original painting.  Painted by H. Brueckner.  Engraved on steel...E90.p6 L6

 

Original documents from the State-paper office, London, and the British Museum illustrating the history of Sir Walter Raleigh's first American colony, and the colony at Jamestown.  With an appendix containing a memoir of Sir Ralph Lane, the governor of the colony of Roanoke.  A 1820 .A54 v.4

 

Virginia [slide]; Historic Maps.  Fine Arts

 

Jamestown, Virginia [slide]; Maps and plans.  A-Jamestown-Maps-4 "James Forte at Jam.  Fine Arts

 

The London Company of Va; a brief account...with photogravures of prominent leaders reproduced from the collection of historical portraits at Oakridge, Nelson county, Va, secured for exhiibition at Jamestown exposition by Thomas Fortune Ryan.  F229 V92.  Fine Arts

 

ALDERMAN LIBRARY, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

 

The following documents are described in a special folder in Special Collections given to me by Michael Plunkett:  Accession No. 9202, Control Folder, 1607-24, Papers of Robert Rich.  They appear to come from The Manchester Papers which appear, according to Mr. Plunkett, to be the papers of Nathaniel Rich.  Numbers follow the folder enumeration.  Many of these documents may be found in the HMC of Kingsbury.

 

1.  Peter Arundell to Rich, ca. Aparil 1623.  Arundell was a London schoolmaster who settled in Va and wrote after the uprising of April 1622.  These extracts speak of miseries, high prices, and how English have taught Indians to be treacherous.  1 p.  HMC 341

 

4.  John Basrgrave petition to House of Commons.  Bargrave was a small merchant who objected violently to the Va Company's monopoly of trade. 3 pp. HMC 401

 

With Sir Thomas Smith and Robert Johnson answer to Bargrave. 3 pp. HMC 408.

 

With John Bargrave to Lord Treasurer, HMC 402.  4 pp. On abuses of Va Co and his better means of settling the colony.

 

With Nathanial Rich's letter.  Comments on Bargrave's proposals. 1 p. HMC 409

 

11.  Letters, William Capps to John Ferrar, March and April, 1623.  Sho the neglect of the colonists' needs by the Sandys admin, the most serious charge made by the Warwick group.  John Ferrar was deputy Treasurer of the Va Co. 3 pp. HMC 322.

 

21.  Letters from Richard Frethorne to Robt. Batemann, and two letters to his parents, Virginia 1623.  Bateman was later a member of the Royal Commission whose rpt led to the dissolution of the Va Co. April 1623. 1 p. HMC 317.  In second letter, Frethorne tells of the starving time.  6 pp. HMC 325.

 

22. "Good Newes from Virginia."  Printed in London 1623.  Reaction of a Virginian to the 1622 uprising.  First published verse in the English language written on the mainland of North America.  Already being readied for the Web page.

 

25.  John Harvey, Gov. of Va, ltr to Sir Nathaniel Rich, April 1624.  Harvey headed the Royal Commission to investigate the colony after the "massacre."  2 pp. HMC 400

 

26.  Anthony Hilton to his mother, Isle of Wight, May 1623, mentions trade on Hudson's Bay and Northwest Passage.

 

35.  Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester to Earl of Manchester, April 1646.  On limitations of free speech in England, "despite the power granted by Parliament to the Earl of Warwick for the American plantations."  2 pp.  HMC 424a

 

37.  Sir Walter Raleigh to Nathanial Rich, June 1617.  Re setting sail, ships, and the journey.  It was Raleigh's ill-fated voyage to Guiana whose failure resulted in his final disgrace.  1 p. HMC 219.

 

38.  Sir Nathanial Rich, ca. 1585-1636.  Autograph papers re his shares in the Somer Islands, 1618-29.  Rich, the Earl of Warwich, was one of most prominent men in the Va and Somer Companies.  He was the chief organizer of the evidence which supported the Warwick group against the Sandys admin.  He is good example of that second generation of colonial pioneers who after the great discoveries set about making the colonies thriving and prosperous places, not dept on gold and treasure.  5 pp. HMC 236.

 

44.  George Sandys, poet and adventurer.  5 ltrs to Sir Edwin, Sir Samuel and Sir Miles Sandys, and John Ferrar [Virginia], March-April 1623.  Sandys was a member of the Va Co in 1621 and was sent out as treasurer in 1621.  Some say he was as powerful as the Gov and heartily disliked.  Then the Indians attacked in 1622.  The Co blamed the colonists.  These ltrs describe condits in the colony after the attack and it is obvious that Sandys is exasperated with Co policies.  19 pp.

 

Plus Sandys to Ferrar, March 1623, with reports on failures of the shipwrights and glass works (one of the Italians has smashed the furnace in a rage); the silkworms; and other probs.  5 pp. HMC 3l8

 

Plus Sandys to Sir Samuel Wrote, March 1623, describing condits like too many colonists sent without enough provisions; Dupper's "stinking beer;" colony too dispersed to ward off Indians.  4 pp. HMC 319

 

Plus Sandys to Sir Samuel Sandys, March 1623 re people in ruin.  4 pp. HMC 320

 

Plus Sandys to Sir Miles Sandys, March 1623 re the policies of the Va Co.  4pp, HMC 321.

 

Plus Sandys to John Ferrar, April 1623.  Re the weakness of the Counsell.  1.5 pp. HMC 326. 

 

54.  Virginia.  History from March to June 1623.  Manuscript.  8pp. HMC 205

 

55.  Virginia Company.  Group of documents re affairs of the Co and the dispute that led to its suppression.  Ca. 220pp. Mostly in hand of Sir Nathaniel Rich.  HMC 241, 245, 251, 254, 253, 247, 271, 272, 280, 281, 288, 298, 304, 306, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 334, 335, 338, 339, 340, 342, 343, 345, 346&348, 344&347, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 356, 358, 359, 352-62, 361, 363, 366, 367, 368, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 374, 377, 375, 376, 378, 379, 380,381, 382, 386, 387, 394, 410 (some not published by Kingsbury).

 

60.  George Weymouth, Articles of Agreement, 30 Oct 1605, to prepare way for Roman Catholic emigration with some followers to go to Va.  HMC 203