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

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Edizione: Rev. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.5/02
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Modern - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sources
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BillingsWarren M. <1940->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Old Dominion in the seventeenth century
• ISBN: 0-8078-3882-9; 1-4696-0085-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460851403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia