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The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925


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A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe of the affaires there till the 18 of Iune 1614. Together with a relation of the seuerall English townes and fortes, the assured hopes of that countrie and the peace concluded with the Indians. The christening of Powhatans daughter and her marriage with an English-man. Written by Raphe Hamor the yonger, late secretarie in that colony ... London, Printed by Iohn Beale for W. Welby, 1615.

Hamor, Ralph, d. 1626.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Albany, J. Munsell, 1860]

NOTES
"Only 200 copies privately printed" (for Charles Gorham Barney, of Richmomd, Va., cf. Sabin, Dict.)

The discourse is followed by three letters: (1) "To the R. and my most esteemed friend Mr. D.M. at his house at F. Ch. in London," by Sir Thomas Dale, dated "From Iames towne in Virginia the 18 of Iune, 1614," p. 51-59. (2) "To my verie deere and louing cosen M[aster] G[ouge] minister of the B[lack] F[riars] in London," by Rev. Alexander Whitaker, dated "Virginia Iune 18. 1614," p. 59-61. (3) "The coppie of the gentle-mans letters to Sir Thomas Dale, that after maried Powhatans daughter, containing the reasons mouing him thereunto," by John Rolfe, p. 61-68.

SUBJECTS
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indians of North America--Virginia.
Pocahontas,--d. 1617.

RELATED NAMES
Dale, Thomas, Sir, d. 1619.
Whitaker, Alexander, 1585-1617.
Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.

MEDIUM
5 p. l., 69, [1] p., 1 l. 37 cm.

CALL NUMBER
F229 .H19

DIGITAL ID
lhbcb 02778 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbcb.02778

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