1) Rockefeller Library (Colonial Williamsburg)
3) Virginia Historical Society
4) Virginia Colonial Records Project
5) Alderman Library (University of Virginia)
OLD CARD CATALOG OF 17TH CENTURY HOLDINGS
(Shifflett)
38-548 Sir Edwin Sandys. 3 items.
1123 William Strachey
Commonplace Book.
9202 Robert Rich Warwick
Papers, 1607-24.
8963 John Cook Wyllie. Varying versions of James I's commission for Virginia.
10197 Copies, 1976 of County Dorset Apprenticeship
Indentures to two merchants in Md. & Va, 1683-1689.
38-579 Sir William Berkeley 1608-1677.
8993-d Norfolk County, Va. 1637-1755.
6 reels microfilm. Deed books,
1637-46; 1675-1703; Wills &
2261 1625-1649.
House of Burgesses: Act VII,
1644, Feb 17, to prohibit deserting of plantations.
2204-a Nathanial
Bacon.
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,
3879 John Eliot Letter, Aug 22, 1673, to Thomas
Shepard.
1402 William Fitzhugh. Marriage contract, Aug 26, 1674, of Fitzhugh and Rose
Garrard.
5103 Surry County, Va.
6075 William Aylett, Bill of Lading.
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
1856 Arnout van Citters.
7855-b John Copeland Letter 4 Mar 1688.
9425-a Paul Phillips Hoffman.
6066 William Thornbury.
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.
Broadside, 1906. P47 1. A Permanent Exposition:
Broadside, 1905. J25. Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va opens
April 26, 1907, closes Nov 30, 1907.
Broadside 1907.P762 1.
A true relation of the State
of Virginia efte by Sir Thomas Dale, knight, in May last 1616 by John
Rolfe.
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.
Proceedings of the general
assembly of Virginia July 30-August 4, 1619.
Teacher's guide to
Jamestown.
Reading, Writing and
arithmetic in Virginia 1607-1699: other
cultural topics by Susie M. Ames.
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.
The three charters of the Virginia
Company of London, with seven related documents: 1606-1621. With an introduction by Samuel M.
Bemiss.
A selected bibliography of
Virginia, 1607-1699 by E.G. Swem and John M. Jennings, with the collaboration
of James A. Servies.
Some notes on shipbuilding and shipping in colonial
Virginia.
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.
Richmond
times-dispatch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Broadside 1921 .A776 1.
First permanent English
settlements in America.
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.
Isle of Wight County.
1608-1907.
The site of old "James
Towne," 1607-1698:
The lower James:
The cradle of the
republic:
Jamestown, the cradle of the
United States of America.
Jamestown, Va. Maps [manuscript], 1900-1907.
Virginia and Virginians;
eminent Virginians, executives of the colony of Virginia, from Sir Thomas Smyth
to Lord Dunmore.
Description of the marriage of Pocahontas (with key plate) at
Jamestown, Va, April 1613. From the
original painting. Painted by H. Brueckner.
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.
Virginia [slide]; Historic
Maps.
Jamestown, Virginia [slide];
Maps and plans. A-Jamestown-Maps-4
"James Forte at Jam.
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.
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.
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.
4. John Basrgrave petition to House of Commons.
With John Bargrave to Lord
Treasurer, HMC 402.
With Nathanial Rich's
letter.
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.
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.
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.
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."
26.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plus Sandys to Sir Samuel
Sandys, March 1623 re people in ruin.
Plus Sandys to Sir Miles
Sandys, March 1623 re the policies of the Va Co.
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.
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&
60. George Weymouth, Articles of Agreement, 30
Oct 1605, to prepare way for Roman Catholic emigration with some followers to
go to Va.