The Old Dominion in the seventeenth century : a documentary history of Virginia, 1606-1700 / edited by Warren M. Billings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Billings, Warren M., 1940- editor.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--17th century--Sources.

Civilization, Modern.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since its original publication in 1975, this book has become important teaching tool and research volume. Billings brings together more than 200 period documents, on topics including the settlement of Jamestown, the evolution of government and the structure of society, forced labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebellion. This new edition includes approximately 30 additional documents. Freshly rethought chapter introductions and suggested readings incorporate the vast scholarship of the past 30 years. Also includes new illustrations of 17th-century artifacts and buildings as well as a full index.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; A Note on Editing; List of Maps; List of Plates; 1 THE BEGINNINGS; Prelude to Settlement; 1. The Rationale for Colonization; 2. Supplies the Colonists Took to Virginia; 3. The First Settlers; 4. Instructions from the Virginia Company to the First Settlers, November 1606; 5. George Percy's Account of the Voyage to Virginia and the Colony's First Days; 6. Some Contemporary Explanations for Virginia's Early Failures; The Struggle for Survival; 7. A Share of Stock in the London Company, 1610; 8. The ""Starving Time,"" 1609-1610

9. Excerpts from the Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall, 161210. Sir Thomas Dale's Plan for Revitalizing the Colony, 1611; 11. John Rolfe Experiments with Tobacco Growing, 1612; Virginia Transformed; 12. The Beginning of Representative Government: The Virginia Company Creates a General Assembly; 2 THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT IN VIRGINIA: THE GOVERNOR AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY; The Governor; 1. Instructions to Sir William Berkeley, August 1641; The Council of State; 2. The Governor and Council as Court, 1674; 3. The Burgesses Elect the Governor and Council, 1652; The House of Burgesses

4. Election of Burgesses, 16365. Freeholders Ordered to Meet with Their Burgesses, 1671; 6. The Evolution of Burgess Representation; 7. Control over Legislative Procedures; 8. Initiation of Legislation; 9. Control over Taxation; 10. Control over Local Affairs: The General Assembly Creates the County Court System, 1634; 3 THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT IN VIRGINIA: LOCAL GOVERNMENT; The Organization of County Government; 1. The Creation of Rappahannock County, 1656; 2. The Appointment of County Officers; The Growth of the County Courts' Statutory Control of Local Affairs

3. Acts of the Assembly, 1642/3-1661/2The County Court as a Place of Record; 4. A Land Deed Recorded, 1638; 5. A Deed of Sale, 1664; 6. A Will Recorded and Probated, 1680; 7. Mary Allen's Power of Attorney, 1665; 8. Cattle Registry, 1665; 9. A Coroner's Inquest, 1647; The County Courts' Administrative Duties; 10. County Court Procedure, 1675; 11. Justices Fined for Failing to Attend Their Court, 1663/4; 12. The Regulation of a Public House, 1667; 13. The Care of the Indigent and the Infirm; 14. County Defense, 1674; 15. Tax Collection, 1672; The Problems of Law and Order; 16. Civil Justice

17. Criminal Justice4 THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY; The Character of Virginia's Population; 1. An Excerpt from the Census of 1624/5; 2. Virginia's Population in 1634; 3. Sir William Berkeley's Estimate of Virginia's Population, 1670; 4. A Tithing List; 5. A Land Patent; The Willoughby Family, 1610-1699; 6. The Original English Residence of Thomas Willoughby; 7. Thomas Willoughby Arrives in Virginia; 8. An Early Land Patent of Thomas Willoughby; 9. Offices Held by Thomas Willoughby; 10. Some Debts Owed to Thomas Willoughby

11. The Lower Norfolk Justices Appoint Thomas Willoughby to Recruit a Minister, 1655

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908816-2-5

979-88-908816-3-2

0-8078-3882-9

1-4696-0085-4

OCLC:

966768096