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

6) Records at the Huntington Library (Shifflett)

Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (1982)

Ellesmere Collection. Part I: to 1617. Official.

6. Colonies. (EL 1682-1683): Capt Peter Wynne's letter to John Egerton, (later Earl of Bridgewater) from Jamestown, Virginia, including a description of that settlement, 1608.

Hastings Collection. X. Special Subjects

1. Americana: There are three main groups of American material in this category. The first contains papers concerning the Virginia Company of London: 5th Earl of Huntington "adventured" £220 in return for 1,000 acres of land in the new Virginia Plantation, and includes (among other items) a contemporary copy of the names of some of the "adventurers" of the Virginia Company, together with their subscriptions, 1610-11; three "Bills of Adventure," or share certificates, issued to the 5th Earl by the Company, 1610-13; the Company's note of "what quantity of ground shale be set forth for an adventurer to Virginia," [1613]; the 5th Earl's power of attorney to Nicholas Martiau and Benjamin Blewett to manage his Virginia estates, 1620; and a document by William Davys endorsed "My Lord's case for lands in Virginia." [1644]

Guide to American Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (1979)

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