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Resource Name &
Link to Resource:		Virginia Company Archives
Description:

Includes facsimile access to The Ferrar Papers, The Ransome transcriptions, The Records of the Virginia Company of London, Ferrar Prints, and a collection of maps and images sourced from the British Library, British Museum, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News and Magdalene College, Cambridge. This later collection includes several watercolors by John Smith; color images from de Bry's 'A Briefe and true report of the New found land of Virginia in 1590'; and a number of the earliest maps of Virginia.

The collection documents:

  • the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624.
  • the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas.
  • trade between Britain and America.
  • the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia.
  • tensions amongst the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans.

It is also a useful source for London's economic, social and religious history in the Early Modern era.
Resource Type(s): E-Book(s),  Government Publication,  Image Collection,  Manuscript,  Map Collection 
Access information: Resource is available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy; Click the resource name to access it or here for off-campus instructions.
Fulltext: Fulltext is available.
Vendor Name:Adam Matthew
Research Guides: British History, History
Coverage:1590 - 1790