Everyone,
The Virginia Colonial Records Project database is a searchable index to
personal names and ship names that appear in the VCRP's Survey Reports,
which describe Virginia-related documents found in foreign (mostly English)
repositories (mostly the British Public Record Office). There are some
14,700 Survey Reports, and the VCRP database provides access to digital
images of the more than 28,000 typescript pages describing documents. The
database can be found at the Library of Virginia Web site as part of the
Digital Library Program, under "Virginia History and Culture."
The project's directors used the Survey Reports to order microfilm copies of
the documents, until the 1970s, when the high cost of silver made the
filming too expensive to continue. The documents described in the first
8,800, or so, Survey Reports were filmed, and the resulting 964 reels of
microfilm are available for research at the VCRP's participating
institutions: the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, the Virginia
Historical Society, the University of Virginia Library, and the Library of
Virginia. The microfilm is also available through your public library via
interlibrary loan from the University of Virginia Library and the Library of
Virginia. Please be sure to specify the reel number(s) of the microfilm in
your request (which can be found in the online VCRP database).
The VCRP is a great resource. Thanks to Peter Bergstrom for pointing out an
example of the documentary riches contained in it.
John
John T. Kneebone [log in to unmask]
Director, Publications and Educational Services
Library of Virginia http://www.lva.lib.va.us
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bergstrom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Date of first Virginia Muster
The original list entitled "List of the Living and Dead in Virginia" is to
be found in the British Public Records Office -- Colonial Office Class 1/3
ff 6-20. It is dated 16 February 1623/24 and it is a list including those
who died in the uprising of 1621/22.
You can easily get a look at the list at the Library of Virginia on
microfilm -- part of the Virginia Colonial Records Project -- reel 72. The
reference is from Survey Report 620.
All of the VCRP survey reports are available on line at LVA and they are
well indexed by name, key word, ship's names, etc. This is a collection of
over 14,000 items from various British and continental archives covering not
only Virginia, but really the whole of the Chesapeake from about 1585 until
the end of the American Revolution.
-----Original Message-----
From: Netti Schreiner-Yantis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2001 1:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Date of first Virginia Muster
Dear List:
I am the one who requested information on the ships and passengers coming to
Virginia ca 1607 to ca 1625. Thanks so much to those who answered! I have
been following up on the information and have accumulated quite a lot of
data which I will be happy to share with anyone who is interested. I have
created a database which includes both the first muster and the second
muster as well as data on the ships.
I know the second muster was taken in January & Febrary of 1624/5, but
Hotten's ORIGINAL LISTS OF PERSONS OF QUALITY . . . only says "A List of
the names of the Dead in Virgna since Aprill last". The list is headed
"February 16: 1623."
Since they were still using the Old Style dates, I am not sure if this was
Feb 1622/3 or Feb 1623/4. If it was 1622/23, it includes those killed in the
Massacre, otherwise it excludes those.
There are 359 persons listed as dead in the first muster which is considably
more that the 114 who died in 1624--accordng to the second muster. It
stands to reason, however, that quite a few people may have been wounded in
the March 22, 1621/22 massacre, but died after April from their wounds and
that accounts for the larger number.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Netti
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