FOOTNOTES
[A] "A Briefe Declaration of the Plantation of Virginia during the first twelve yeares, when Sir Thomas Smyth was Governor, of the Companie, and downe to this present tyme. By the Ancient Planters now remaining alive in Virginia."—MS. in my possession.[2]
[B] "A Briefe Declaration," &c.
[C] "A Briefe Declaration," &c.
[D] "Proceedings of the first Assembly," now first printed in this volume.
[1] "Henrico, now Richmond," is a grievous error. "Henrico, or Henricus, was situated ten miles below the present site of Richmond, on the main land, to which the peninsula known as Farrar's Island was joined." [See footnote Q.]—Ed.
[2] This document is the third in this collection. It is printed from the copy obtained by Col. McDonald.—Ed.
[E] Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, Richmond edition, Vol. ii. pp. 38, 39.
[F] See Beverley's History of Virginia, p. 37 of the first edition, and p. 35 of the second.[3]
[G] Stith's History of Virginia p. 160, Williamsburg edition.[4]