List of Authorities

Alden’s Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions

Alsop’s Character of the Province of Maryland

Anburey’s Travels through the Interior Parts of America

Bancroft’s History of the United States

Beverley’s History and Present State of Virginia

Bozman’s History of Maryland

Browne’s Maryland

Buck’s Old Plate

Burwell Papers, The

Byrd’s Westover Manuscripts

Campbell’s History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

Chastellux’s Travels in North America

Cooke’s Virginia

Doyle’s English Colonies in America

Fisher’s The Colonial Era

Hammond’s Leah and Rachel; or, The Two Fruitful Sisters, Virginia and Maryland

Hamor’s True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia

Hening’s Virginia Statutes at Large

Hildreth’s History of the United States

Howe’s Historical Collections of Virginia

Howell’s State Trials

Irving’s Life of Washington

Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia

Jefferson, Thomas, Life and Letters of

Jones’ True Relation of the Present State of Virginia

Lee, Richard Henry, Life and Letters of

Lossing’s Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution

McMaster’s History of the People of the United States

Madison, Mrs. Dolly, Life and Letters of

Maryland Archives

Magazine of American History

Meade’s Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia

Moore’s History of North Carolina

Purchas: His Pilgrimes

Ramsay’s History of South Carolina

Ridgely’s Annals of Annapolis

Robin, Abbé, New Travels through North America

Rowland’s Life of George Mason

Scharf’s Chronicles of Baltimore

Smith’s General History of Virginia

Smith’s True Relation of Virginia

Tyler’s Life of Patrick Henry

Tyler’s History of American Literature

Virginia Historical Register, Ed. by W. Maxwell

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Whitaker’s Good Newes from Virginia

William and Mary College Quarterly

Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry

Footnote:

[1] V. Library of Edmund Berkeley, Esq., Member of the Council (Died 15 Dec. 1718), from an inventory taken the 18 and 19 days of June, 1719:

The whole Duty of Mann One old Bible and one old comon pray^r book The Christian Sacrifice The great Duty of frequenting the Christian Sacrifice A Brief chronicle of the Civil Wars of England and Ireland. Cavalrie the first Book The common prayer book the best companion. Janna Divoram. Contemplations on the State of Mann the first part of the English Dixtionary The Wel Spring of Sciences The Young Clerk guide A compendium of physick The Athenian Oracle A Guide to Constables Some consideration touching the Stile of the Holy Scriptures. A perfect Guide for a Studious Young Lawyer The p^rsent State of London. a Profitable book for those that are burnt with Gunpowder. The first part of the English Dictionary a Compleat history of England The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans. The Tragedy of Darius and Julius Cæsar A Compleat Collections of all the Laws of Virginia The new world of English words. The history of the Jews. The Countrey Justice The first part of Compleat Histrey The Expotion of the Creed The Surgeons mate An Essay concerning human understanding a Breife Treatise of Testaments The Decameron A Compendius Dictionary Lexicon Manuale. Lord Delamers Works. Sixteen sermons on several occasions ffarquhars Works. An abridgment of all the Statutes in fforce The standard of the Quakers. The Hearts Ease. A Tryal of Faith Several Discourses of the great Duties of Natural Religion The Works of Josephus in three Volumes Doctor Reads Works. Abridgment of the Statutes of King Wm. Plutarchs Morals. Bethel or a fform for ffamilys Discourses on the History of the whole world of wisdom the second and third books. Mr. John Banisters Works. The History of ffrance the first and fourth volumes of the turkish spy Sermons on several occasions resolutions and devisions of Cases of Conscience Plutarchs Morals the Second Volume and the third. A Manual Anatomy England’s General Description Shakespears Works. Second Volume of Tom Browns Works Copies of Certain Letters. Ancient and the present State of the Empire of Germany. The Shepards oracles. Physoignomie and Chiromancy The Genral View of the Holy Scriptures The practice of piety The great law of consideration Trigonometrie Of generosity and constancy in the faith The History of the Revolutions in Sweeden The Marrow of Chyrurgery Toleration discuss’d. Letters of Remarkables in Switzerland The office of Executors a Companion for a Chyrurgeon The Critick The Lively Oracles The heaven of health The history of the Conquest of China Valentine and Orson. a Discourse on the Sacraments Some Motives to the Love of God. an Introduction to the Skill of Musick. Sermons and Discourses some of which never before printed. The Nature of Truth discuss’d The Method of physick The new London Dispensatory. a Compendius Dictionary Milk for Babes an Introduction to the Eight parts of Latin speech The use of piety The European Mercury The Books of psalms. Notes on Mr. Lockes Essay of Human Understanding Britains Remembrancer An Infallible way to Contentment a view of all the religions in the world A Description of the Little world. The portraiture of his sacred Maj^ty in his solitudes and suferings The London Dispensatory English Examples a Short Introduction to Gramar a Short Catechisme The Esopps ffables Works of M^r Tho^s Southerne Eight Lattin Books.