Chapter I: Foreword

This bibliography is a modest collection of titles relating to the life of seventeenth-century Virginia in its broadest interpretation. It has been compiled with the need in mind of the general reader and of the student who is just beginning research in the alluring field of early Virginia history. Numerous titles have been omitted for the reason that the number of pages allotted to this booklet requires forbearance and retrenchment. The earnest purpose of the compilers has been to include a good representation of those books and contributions in periodicals that have stood the test of time. Again, yielding to the demands of economy, the titles have been reduced in length from the full style followed in standard catalogue entries. There is enough information included in each title to enable the consultant to judge of the contents of the book to which the title refers, and to learn its date and size; enough to whet his historical appetite and to cause him to hasten with joy to the nearest college or reference library, where he will receive a happy welcome and be shown the books he wishes in original edition, in reprint, or in reproduced form of photostat, microfilm, microcard, or microsheet.

The arrangement of titles has been designed for browsing: secondary works are arranged by author under certain general subjects; primary materials, following collections of original narratives, by date from "before 1607" to 1699.

The senior editors wish to acknowledge the cordial cooperation of Miss Spotswood Hunnicutt, and to extend to our collaborator, Mr. James A. Servies, Reference Librarian of William and Mary College, warm gratitude and high praise for the characteristic industry and enthusiasm he has displayed in every step of this compilation. His rare gift of discerning bibliographical values has been constantly in evidence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword v

Bibliographies and Guides 1

Secondary Works 3

U. S. History--Including History of the South 3

Virginia History--Including Local History 7

Sixteenth-Century Virginia 11

Seventeenth-Century Virginia 12

General 12

Special Topics 18

Jamestown 18

Social Life, Education 19

Economics 21

Law and Politics 22

Agriculture 24

Indians 25

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 26

Religion 27

The Negro 29

Biography 29

Fiction and Drama 32

Primary Works 34

Collections 34

Before 1607 42

1607-1609 43

1610-1619 46

1620-1629 52

1630-1639 58

1640-1649 59

1650-1659 61

1660-1669 64

1670-1679 66

1680-1689 69

1690-1699 71

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND GUIDES

=Abbot, William W.= A Virginia chronology, 1585-1783. Williamsburg,
1957. (Jamestown 350th anniversary historical booklet, No. 2.)

=Association for Preservation= of Virginia Antiquities. Yearbook.
Richmond, 1896-date.

=Brock, Robert A.= Virginia, 1606-1689 [with a critical essay on the
sources of information]. In: Winsor, Narrative and critical
history, v. 3, p. 127-68.

=Brown University.= John Carter Brown library. Bibliotheca Americana;
catalogue of the ... library. Providence, R. I., 1919-1931. 3 v.

=Cole, George W.= A catalogue of books relating to the discovery and
early history of North and South America forming a part of the
library of E. D. Church. N. Y., 1907. 5 v.

=Eames, Wilberforce.= A bibliography of Captain John Smith. N. Y.,
1927. 48 p.

[=Kennett, White=]. Bibliothecae Americanae primordia. An attempt
towards laying the foundation of an American library. London,
1713. 283 p.

=Kingsbury, Susan M.= An introduction to the records of the Virginia
company of London with a bibliographical list of the extant
documents. Washington, 1905. 214 p.

Reprinted: Kingsbury, Records of the Virginia company, v. 1, p.
11-206.

=New York (City).= Public Library. List of works in the New York public
library relating to Virginia. N. Y., 1907. 71 p.

=Phillips, Philip L.= List of books relating to America in the
register of the London company of stationers, from 1562-1638. Am.
hist. assoc., Report (1896), v. 1, p. 1249-61.

____ Virginia cartography; a bibliographical description. Washington,
1896. 85 p. (Smithsonian institution publication, no. 1039)

=Sabin, Joseph.= Bibliotheca Americana. A dictionary of books relating
to America, from its discovery to the present time. N. Y.,
1868-1936. 29 v.

=Stanard, William G.= The colonial Virginia register. Albany, N. Y.,
1902. 249 p.

____ The Virginia archives. Am. hist. assoc., Report, 1903, v. 1, p.
645-64.

=Swem, Earl G.= Bibliography of Virginia. Richmond, 1916-19. 3 v.

____ Maps relating to Virginia in the Virginia state library. Richmond,
1914. [33]-263 p. (Virginia state library, Bulletin, v. 7, nos.
2-3.)

____ Virginia historical index. Roanoke, Va., 1934-36. 2 v.

=Torrence, William C.= A trial bibliography of colonial Virginia.
Richmond, 1908-10. 2 v. (Virginia state library, 5th-6th report,
1908-10.)

=Virginia historical society.= Catalogue of the manuscripts. Richmond,
1901. 120 p.

=Virginia State Library.= Calendar of transcripts [in the Virginia
State Library]. Richmond, 1905. 658, xliv p.

=Winsor, Justin.= Maryland and Virginia [with a critical bibliography].
In his: Narrative and critical history, v. 5, p. 259-84.

SECONDARY WORKS

=U. S. History--including History of the South=

=Andrews, Charles M.= The Colonial period of American history. New
Haven, Conn., 1934-38. 4 v.

____ Our earliest colonial settlements, their diversities of origin and
later characteristics. N. Y., 1933. 179 p.

=Avery, Elroy M.= A history of the United States and its people.
Cleveland, 1904-10. 7 v.

=Bancroft, George.= A history of the United States. Boston, 1834-74. 10
v.

=Beer, George L.= The old colonial system, 1660-1754. N. Y., 1912. 2 v.

____ The origins of the British colonial system, 1578-1660. N. Y.,
1908. 438 p.

=Bolton, Herbert E. and T. M. Marshall.= The colonization of North
America, 1492-1783. N. Y., 1920. 609 p.

=Bond, Beverly W.= The quit-rent system in the American colonies. New
Haven, Conn., 1919. 492 p.

=Bozman, John L.= The history of Maryland, from its first settlement in
1633, to the restoration, in 1660. Baltimore, 1837. 2 v.

=Bristol and America=, a record of the first settlers in the colonies
of North America, 1654-1685. London, 1929. 182 p.

=The Cambridge history= of the British empire, v. 1, The old empire
from the beginnings to 1783. Cambridge, 1929. 931 p.

=Chalmers, George.= Political annals of the present united colonies,
from their settlement to the peace of 1763. Book 1, London, 1780.
695 p.