Nathaniel Shrigley’s True Relation of Virginia and Maryland, 1669; Force’s Tracts, vol. v.
John Lederer’s Discoveries in Three Marches from Virginia, 1669, 1670, London, 1672, with map of the country traversed. It was “collected out of the Latin by Sir William Talbot, Baronet.” There is a copy in Harvard College Library, Griswold Catalogue, 422; Huth Catalogue, iii. 829.
There are in the early Virginian bibliography a few titles on the efforts made to induce the cultivation of silkworms. The King addressed a letter to the Earl of Southampton with a review of Bonœil’s treatise on the making of silk, and this was published by the Company in 1622. (Harvard College Library MS. Catalogue; Brinley Catalogue, no. 3,760.) The Company also published, in 1629, Observations ... of Fit Rooms to keepe silk wormes in; and as late as 1655 Hartlib’s Reformed Virginian Silk-worm indicated continued interest in the subject. This last is reprinted in Force’s Tracts, vol. iii. no. 13, and the originals of this and of the preceding are in Harvard College Library. Sabin’s Dictionary, viii. 121.—Ed.]
[297] The Orders and constitutions ordained by the treasvror, covnseil, and companie of Virginia, for the better gouerning of said companie, is reprinted in Force’s Tracts, vol. iii.
[298] Fortieth Congress, Second Session, Misc. Doc. no. 84, Senate. Another effort was made in Congress for this eminently desirable measure in 1881. The bill introduced by Senator John W. Johnston, of Virginia, passed the Senate, but for some reason failed in the House of Representatives.
[299] [While these two volumes were yet in his possession, Mr. Jefferson, in a letter to Colonel Hugh P. Taylor, dated October 4, 1823, says, that the volumes came to him with the Library of Colonel Richard Bland, which Mr. Jefferson had purchased,—Colonel Bland having borrowed them of the Westover Library, and never returned them. (See H. A. Washington’s ed. of Jefferson’s Writings, vii. 312.) Colonel Bland died in October, 1776. A duplicate set of these Records (transcripts made in Virginia some hundred and fifty years ago) are now in the possession of Conway Robinson, Esq., of Richmond. They were deposited with him by Judge William Leigh, one of the executors of John Randolph of Roanoke, in whose library they were found after his death, in 1833, where they were inspected and described by the late Hugh Blair Grigsby, before the dispersion of the library at a later period. (Letters of Conway Robinson and H. B. Grigsby to Mr. Deane). These Randolph-Leigh-Robinson volumes were examined by Mr. Deane in Richmond, in April, 1872, just after he had inspected the Byrd-Stith-Jefferson copy in the Law Library in Washington.—Ed.]
[300] [Mr. Neill has published numerous notes on early Virginia history in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., namely, “English maids for Virginia,” 1876, p. 410; “Transportation of Homeless Children,” 1876, p. 414; “Lotteries,” 1877, p. 21; “Daniel Gookin of Virginia,” 1877, p. 267 (see also i. 345; ii. 167; Paige’s Cambridge, 563, and Terra Mariæ, 76).—Ed.]
[301] [Colonel Aspinwall collected during his long consulship at Liverpool a valuable American library, of about four thousand volumes (771 titles), which in 1863 was sold to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Esq., of New York, but all except about five hundred of the rarest volumes which Mr. Barlow had taken possession of were burned in that city in 1864. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xv. 2. This collection was described in a catalogue (a few copies privately printed), Bibliotheca Barlowiana, compiled by Henri Harrisse.—Ed.]
[302] John Pory’s lively account of excursions among the Indians is given in Smith’s Generall Historie. Neill, N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. 1875, p. 296, thinks that George Ruggles was the author of several of the early tracts in Force’s Tracts. See Neill’s Virginia Company, p. 362.
[303] [The history of the dividing line (1728) between Virginia and North Carolina is found in William Byrd’s Westover MSS., printed in Petersburg in 1841. It shows how successive royal patents diminished the patent rights of Virginia. See Virginia Hist. Reg. i. and iv. 77; Williamson’s North Carolina, App.—Ed.]