Dear Judith
See Document #4, p. 99, and note 4, in:
The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590, Documents to
Illustrate the English Voyages to North America
under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in
1584, Vol. I, ed. David Beers Quinn (Dover PB,
1991; reprint of Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, No.
CIV, 1955).
Document #4 = Arthur Barlowe's Discourse of the
First Voyage [1584-85], reprinted from Hakluyt's
Principall Navigations (1589).
Barlowe describes the native inhabitants: "very
handsome, and goodly people, and in their
behauior as mannerly and ciuill, as any of
Europe...the King is called Wingina, the countrey
Wingandacoa, (and Nowe by her Maiestie,
Virginia.)..."
Note 4: "The name was conferred some time between
the drafting of Raleigh's bill to confirm his
discoveries in December 1584 (pp. 126-9below [ie
in Quinn vol. I]) and 24 March 1585 (the latest
date compatible with the seal, for which see p.
147 below). Unless inserted by Hakluyt this
suggests that Barlowe's narrative was not
completed until preparations for the next
expedition were well advanced.
Thomas Harriot did not go on this first voyage,
but was very much involved in the preparations
for the 2nd.
Karen
Karen Reeds
>
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:35:32 -0500
>From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Virginia: the term
>
>A fascinating question. Most writers assume that the name was given by Sir
>Walter Ralegh. He writes during his imprisonment that the land claimed by
>the English was called Virginia. According to the account in Virginia the
>Old Dominion by Matthew Page Andrews, an expedition was organized by Walter
>Ralegh and placed under the command of Captains Arthur Barlow Marleau and
>Philip Amadas, which explored Cape Hatteras in July 1584. They named
>Roanoke Island, but after their report in London, “Elizabeth herself became
>the ‘princely godmother’ for the country at large and called it Virginia,
>in honor of herself as the Virgin Queen.” Andrew cites as authority The
>Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia (R. H. Major, ed) by William
>Strachey. Strachey took his source from Hakluyt Society Publications, No 6
>(London 1849), page 140.
>
>I am assuming the reference is to Richard Hakluyt, who was a compatriot of
>Walter Ralegh and active in the organization of the early Ralegh voyages.
>If the Hakluyt Society Publications could be referenced, perhaps more
>details might indicate the basis of Hakluyt’s attribution directly to
>Elizabeth.
>
>The Literary Encyclopedia references Hakluyt’s publications on the early
>voyages as
>Divers Voyages (1582), Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of
>the English Nation (1589), and its second edition, much enlarged, The
>Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English
>Nation (in three volumes, 1598, 1599, 1600). It is probable that the
>Hakluyt Society Publications were a republication of the earlier volumes.
>
>Richard E. Dixon
>
>
>
>> [Original Message]
> > From: Judith Bailey Gabor <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 2/9/2009 3:58:03 PM
>> Subject: [VA-HIST] Virginia: the term
>>
>> Last month, I inquired as to the date of the first use of the term
>> VIRGINIA.
>>
>> Not a peep from anyone. Maybe the question is trivial because it is
>> assumed that all listers know the answer.
>>
>> The first mention I have found was a Thomas Harriot report from 1586,
>> published in 1588.
>>
>> In 1587, John White's granddaughter was named Virginia Dare - supposedly
>> for the virgin queen.
>>
>> Any ideas on this topic?
>>
>> Thanks, Judith Bailey Gabor
>>
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>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:21:48 -0500
>From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Virginia: the term
>
>Well, the reach of the Internet never ceases to surprise. The Hakluyt
>Society has a web page which does contain for viewing The Historie of
>Travaile in Virginia Britannia. I misunderstood the reference by Andrews.
>The work is by William Strachey, and the title refers to the difficult
>Jamestown period of 1610 -- 1612. It was edited by R.H. Moore for the
>Hakluyt Society publication in 1849. It states that for some 20 years the
>English claim had been referred to as Virginia, and does assert that
>Elizabeth, a "princely godmother, her renowned late majesty, of famous
>memory, in witnes of her owne well chosen vertues, baptized by the name of
>Virginia...."
>
>Richard E. Dixon
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Judith Bailey Gabor <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 2/9/2009 3:58:03 PM
>> Subject: [VA-HIST] Virginia: the term
>>
>> Last month, I inquired as to the date of the first use of the term
>> VIRGINIA.
>>
>> Not a peep from anyone. Maybe the question is trivial because it is
>> assumed that all listers know the answer.
>>
>> The first mention I have found was a Thomas Harriot report from 1586,
>> published in 1588.
>>
>> In 1587, John White's granddaughter was named Virginia Dare - supposedly
>> for the virgin queen.
>>
>> Any ideas on this topic?
>>
>> Thanks, Judith Bailey Gabor
>>
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--
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ , 2088
http://www.americanswedish.org/, http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
http://www.nj.gov/state/museum/see_come-into-new-world.htm
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http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm
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