Webography, Settlement of British America
The following electronic resources lead the researcher to bibliographic and textual
information from the period or about the settlement of British America,
especially Virginia.
Internet Resources from Colonial Williamsburg
Archaeological Research at Colonial Williamsburg
Current research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia includes Rich Neck
Plantation, the John Page Site and the Nassau Street Ordinary. The Archaeology
Department also offers
full-text reports and publications on early Tidewater Virginia sites.
Taking Possession
The "Taking Possession" story line examines the colonists' quest for
land ownership and discusses how their quest affected Native Americans,
settlers from other nations, and the development of fundamental American
values. For further understanding, please read the
key
points for this storyline.
Mapping Colonial America
Explore colonial maps from Colonial Williamsburg's collection in an online exhibition
that includes maps dated from 1587 to 1782.
Images are available in the Library's Visual Resources Center. Look at some
samples:
Native
Americans
Articles from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal:
Captain
John Smith's Christmas by Dennis Montgomery, Christmas 2004
Henricus:
A New and Improved Jamestown by Mary Miley Theobald, Winter 2003-2004
The Tyme Appointed
by Mary Miley Theobald, Autumn 2005
How was
"The Tyme Appointed"? by Anthony Aveni, Autumn 2005
Lusty Beggars,
Dissolute Women, Sorners, Gypsies, and Vagabonds for Virginia by Bruce P.
Lenman, Spring 2005
Work,
Work, and More Work: Middling Planters Took Hard Road to Wealth, Respectability
in Colonial Virginia by Ed Crews, Spring 2005
Historical
Rivalry:Virginia's Jamestown was the continent's first permanent English settlement.
So how is that Massachusetts's Plymouth has precedence in the minds of so many
Americans? By James Axtell, Winter 2007
"Things
which seame incredible" Cannibalism in Early Jamestown by Mark Nicholls,
Winter 2007
We
are Starved by Ivor Noel Hume, Winter 2007
Subjects:
Land Settlement
Frontier and Pioneer Life
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
Virginia – Description and Travel -- Early works to 1800
Virginia – Discovery and Exploration
Virginia – Historical Geography
Internet Resources
American
Journeys
More than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration,
from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men
in the Rockies 800 years later. Accounts of early Virginia explorers and settlers
are transcribed.
The
American Revolution and Its Era
Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 represents an
important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.
Atlas of Historical
County Boundaries, Newberry Library.
Designed to provide information about the creation and boundary changes of every
county in the United States, from the earliest county creation in the 1600s
to 2000. See the Virginia
map.
Documents for the Study
of American History
AMDOCS offers transcriptions of documents beginning with Christopher Columbus
and continuing with early Spanish and British explorers and settlers.
Hening's
Statutes at Large
In this continuing project, volumes 1-11, 1619-1784, are transcribed and indexed
by persons named in the text.
Land
Records
The Library of Virginia offers a database including patents and grants from
the crown and commonwealth from 1623 to 1992 and database of grants in the Northern
Neck Proprietary from 1692 to 1862 (images available online).
Virginia
Colonial Records Project
The VCRP is a microfilm series of early records obtained from institutions and
record offices in Great Britain and Western Europe. Abstracted in the 1960’s,
the survey reports of these records are searchable through the digital images
at the Library of Virginia’s web site. Subject searches work best with
personal names and ship names; general subjects are not assigned to the records.
Virginia
Records, 1606-1737
Thomas Jefferson collected early Virginia Records, including the Records
of the Virginia Company.
Yale Indian Papers Project
This scholarly critical edition of New England Native American primary source
materials explores 400 years of New England Native American history, community,
culture, sovereignty, land, gender, race, identity, migration, law, and politics.
JAMESTOWN WEBSITES:
Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities sponsors Jamestown Rediscovery, investigating the
remains of 1607-1698 Jamestown.
Virtual Jamestown
(sponsored by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University of Virginia)
offers maps, timelines, and documents.
Jamestown Society members
are descendents of the early settlers. Educating the public on settlement is
part of their mission.
Records
of the Virginia Company of London have been digitized by the Library of
Congress as part of the Thomas Jefferson Papers.
Subscription Resources (available only to Colonial Williamsburg staff)
America: History and Life
Indexes over 2,000 historical journals published worldwide. Approximately 16,000
new entries are added each year. Enter “|Settlement|” as a subject
and “ |1700H| or |1600H|” in the Time Period box. (Contact Reference
Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
America's Historical
Imprints
Search simultaneously: Early American Imprints Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. (Available only
on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Early
American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned
bibliography by Charles Evans - the definitive resource for information about
every aspect of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, from
agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music,
religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any
other topic imaginable.
Early
American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished
bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Virginia Company Archives
The Ferrar Papers, 1590-1790, from Magdalene College Cambridge, and The
Records of the Virginia Company make up the bulk of this searchable database
which offer sources for the study of trade between Britain and America and of
early relations betweent the colonists and Native Americans.
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