I checked my handy office copy of volume two of John T. Kneebone and Jon Kukla, eds., A Key to Survey Reports and Microfilm of the Virginia Colonial Records Project (Richmond, 1990) and saw that the project did not survey any of the British Library Add. Mss. in the 69--- range. The reference to a 1620s order about a house for the governor is particularly intriguing.



Brent Tarter

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I was in the British Library on Saturday afternoon and came across the following sources with relevant material on Virginia's early history. Folio references are not specified in the BL catalogues.



1. Additional Ms 69,884 contains proposals for the building of two forts, a college and a house for the Governor in Virginia dated c.1625.



2. Additional Ms 69,909 contains a warrant for the payment of the expenses of Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor of Virginia dated 22 February, 1638/1639.



3. Additional Ms 69,916 contains a petition from John Woodcock of London, merchant, to Sir John Harvey, Governor of Virginia, for an enquiry into his dispersed goods dated c.1628-1638.



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