Sept. 3, 1718: Governor Spotswood wrote a letter to the vestry of St. Anne’s Parish. (Copy, unsigned, but identified in …
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Francis Gouldman’s Will, mentions sister Martha Gouldman
January 9, 1715: By this time, Martha Thomlin Gouldman Winston had inherited Mahockney from her mother. She and her second husband …
Bishop Meade on early Essex gentlemen: “Intelligence and a high state of morals for the time”
Writing in 1861 and looking back to the earliest seventeenth-century settlers of the Rappahannock valley, Bishop Meade in his “Old Churches …
“A warr be declared and effectually prosecuted against all such Indians”
1676, March 7: A remarkable act by the Virginia colonial assembly, declaring “warr” on the Indians – and I make …
The Warrs against the Indians, and the roots of Bacon’s Rebellion
1674: Early roots of Bacon’s Rebellion, discussed throuh primary documents in an excellent resource, the National Park Service’s narrative history, …
Did John Smith actually need to be rescued by Pocahontas?
1608, January 2: Captain John Smith is freed by Powhatan. From the National Park Service’s excellent reconsideration of Anglo-Indian encounters …
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