Virginia First Discovery and Settlement - History

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History of
The First Discovery and Settlement of
Virginia
Being an Essay Towards A General History
Of This Colony
(Derived from the Records of the Virginia Company)
By William Stith, President of
Wm. & Mary
College
1747, reprint edition of 1865
400 pages, searchable
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After revoking their charter, on the 15th of July 1624 the King ordered all papers of the Virginia Company to be given to a Commission
for review.
Repeated searches have been made for them in
England
, but they have not been discovered.
Earlier, when the king first resolved to destroy the charter of the Virginia Company, an attempt was made to obtain the records by
their opponents. A clerk was immediately secured as copyist, and locked up in a room of a house, while he transcribed the minutes.
After the transactions were copied on folio paper they were given to the President of the Company, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of
Southampton
. During the same year Southampton died; and Thomas, his son, was heir and successor to the title, and became Lord High
Treasurer of
England
, and lived until 1667. Shortly after the death of the latter, William Byrd of Virginia, the father of Hon. William Byrd
of Westover, purchased the manuscript records from the executors of the Earl for sixty guineas.
Rev. William Stith, who subsequently became President of William and Mary College, while living at Varina, on James river, the old
settlement of Sir Thomas Dale, better known since the civil war as Dutch Gap, obtained these records from the Byrd library at Westover;
and most of the material of this History of Virginia, completed in 1746, was drawn therefrom.
Stith's brother-in-law, Peyton Randolph, became the first President of the Continental Congress, and while visiting a friend at his seat
near Philadelphia, in October, 1776, suddenly died. When his library was sold it was purchased by Thomas Jefferson, and among the
books were the manuscript records of the London Company, that had been used by Stith.
The
United States
having purchased the books of President Jefferson, these manuscripts are now preserved in the library of Congress.
They are bound in two volumes, and contain the Company's transactions from April 28, 1619, until June 7, 1624.
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