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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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
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The world they made together : black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia / Mechal Sobel.
Sobel, Mechal.
Date
1989, ©1987
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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]
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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]
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