LEADER 05148nam 2200697 450 001 9910460851403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8078-3882-9 010 $a1-4696-0085-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000538148 035 $a(EBL)4321912 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001591917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16289742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13762266 035 $a(PQKB)11175480 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321912 035 $a(OCoLC)966768096 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48350 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321912 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149699 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930101 035 $a(OCoLC)935259522 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000538148 100 $a20160607h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Old Dominion in the seventeenth century $ea documentary history of Virginia, 1606-1700 /$fedited by Warren M. Billings 205 $aRev. ed. 210 1$aChapel Hill, North Carolina :$cUniversity of North Carolina Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 225 1 $aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8078-5852-8 311 $a0-8078-3161-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a9. 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 327 $a4. 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 327 $a3. 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 327 $a17. 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 327 $a11. The Lower Norfolk Justices Appoint Thomas Willoughby to Recruit a Minister, 1655 410 0$aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y17th century$vSources 607 $aVirginia$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$vSources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 676 $a975.5/02 702 $aBillings$b Warren M.$f1940- 712 02$aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460851403321 996 $aThe Old Dominion in the seventeenth century$92472304 997 $aUNINA