22 results filtered with: Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Critical remarks on a letter ascribed to Common Sense containing an attempt to prove that the said letter is an imposition on common sense. With a dissertation on drowsiness, as the cruel cause of the imposition.
Camm, John, 1718-1778 or 1779.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The melancholy narrative of the distressful voyage and miraculous deliverance of Captain David Harrison, of the sloop, Peggy, of New York, on his voyage from Fyal, one of the western islands, to New-York, who Having lost all his Sails in a long Series of hard Weather, and entirely exhausted his Provisions, lived two and forty Days without receiving the least Food, till he was happily relieved by the Humanity of Capt. Evers of the Susanna, in the Virginia Trade. - In this Narrative the Expedients which Capt. Harrison and his Men made Use of for their Subsistence are particularly set forth, who twice cast Lots for their Lives, and were to have killed the second Man on the very Morning they were providentially taken up. - The Whole being authenticated in the strongest Manner, by repeated Depositions, Before the Right Hon. George Nelson, Esq. Lord-Mayor of the City of London, and Mr. Robert Shank, Notary Public. Written by himself.
Harrison, David, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia. By William Stith, A. M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Stith, William, 1707-1755.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- E-books
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The world they made together : Black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia / Mechal Sobel.
Sobel, Mechal.Date: c1987- Books
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The history and present state of Virginia, in four parts. I. The History of the First Settlement of Virginia, and the Government thereof, to the present Time. II. The Natural Productions and Conveniencies 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. By a native and inhabitant of the place.
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673-1722.Date: MDCCV. [1705]- Books
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The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia. By William Stith, A.M. President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Stith, William, 1707-1755.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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An epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, concerning the epidemical diseases of Virginia, particularly, a pleurisy and peripneumony: wherein is shewn the surprising efficacy of the seneca rattle-snake root, in Diseases owing to a Viscidity and Coagulation of the Blood; such as Pleurisies and Peripneumonies, these being epidemick, and very mortal in Virginia, and other Colonies on the Continent of America, and also the Lee-Ward Islands. To which is prefixt, A Cut of that most valuable Plant: And an Appendix annexed, Demonstrating the highest Probability, that this Root will be of more extensive Use than any Medicine in the whole Materia Medica, and of curing the Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, and many nervous Diseases. By John Tennent.
Tennent, John, 1710-1748.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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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 Conveniencies 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 a native and inhabitant of the place.
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673-1722.Date: 1722- Books
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The world they made together : black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia / Mechal Sobel.
Sobel, MechalDate: 1989, ©1987- Books
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The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia: being an essay towards a general history of this colony. By William Stith, A.M. Rector of Henrico Parish, and one of the governors of William and Mary College. [One line in Latin from Virgil]
Stith, William, 1707-1755.Date: M,DCC,XLVII. [1747]- Books
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Virginia's danger and remedy. Two discourses, occasioned by the severe drought in sundry parts of the country; and the defeat of General Braddock. By Samuel Davies, A.M.
Davies, Samuel, 1723-1761.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Tobacco culture : the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of Revolution / T.H. Breen ; with a new preface by the author.
Breen, T. HDate: 2001- Books
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The history of the British plantations in America. With a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several Discoveries of that New World. Part I. Containing the history of Virginia; with Remarks on the Trade and Commerce of that Colony. By Sir William Keith, Bart.
Keith, William, Sir, 1680-1749.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The history of America, books IX. and X. Containing the history of Virginia to the year 1688; and of New England to the year 1652. By William Robertson, D.D. Principal of the University of Edinburgh, historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland, and member of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid.
Robertson, William, 1721-1793.Date: 1799- Books
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The Jamestown project / Karen Ordahl Kupperman.
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, 1939-Date: 2008- Books
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The history of America, books IX. and X. Containing the history of Virginia, to the year 1688; and of New England, to the year 1652. By William Roberston, D.D. Principal of the University of Edinburgh, historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland, and member of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid.
Robertson, William, 1721-1793.Date: 1800- Books
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A letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord B----p of L-----n. Occasioned by a letter of his Lordship's to the L--ds of t-e, on the subject of the Act of Assembly passed in the year 1758, intituled, An act to enable the inhabitants of this colony to discharge their publick dues, &c. in money for the ensuing year. From Virginia.
Carter, Landon, 1710-1778.Date: 1760- Books
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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 Conveniencies 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 a native and inhabitant of the place.
Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673-1722.Date: 1722- E-books
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The Jamestown project / Karen Ordahl Kupperman.
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, 1939-Date: 2007- Books
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia / Thomas Hariot.
Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621.Date: 2007- Books
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The poor unhappy transported felon's sorrowful account. Of his fourteen years transportation at Virginia in America. In six parts. By James Revel, the unhappy sufferer. ... Concluding with a word of advice to all young men.
Revel, James.Date: [1780?]- E-books
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Tobacco culture : the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of revolution / T.H. Breen ; with a new preface by the author.
Breen, T. H.Date: 2001