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Frontispiece

[Pg i]

THE

HISTORY OF VIRGINIA,

IN FOUR PARTS.

I. The History of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the year 1706.
II. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement.
III. The native Indians, their religion, laws and customs, in war and peace.
IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land the 10th of June 1720.

BY ROBERT BEVERLEY,

A native and inhabitant of the place.

REPRINTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S SECOND REVISED EDITION, LONDON, 1722.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY CHARLES CAMPBELL,

Author of the Colonial History of Virginia.


J. W. RANDOLPH,

121 MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

1855.


[Pg ii]Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
J. W. RANDOLPH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court in and for the Eastern District of Virginia.

H. K. ELLYSON'S STEAM PRESSES, RICHMOND, VA.


[Pg iii]

THE TABLE.


BOOK I.


CHAPTER I.

History of the first attempts to settle Virginia, before the discoveryof Chesapeake bay.

PAGE.
§1.Sir Walter Raleigh obtains letters pat
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