In 1870 the General Assembly arranged for the publication of some
historical documents (if memory serves Thomas Hicks Wynne or Winn had a
hand in it) - most of the texts have been supplanted by subsequent
documentary editions, but at the time it was a service to history.  If
memory serves, one of the documents in that edition was the 1619 journal
of the first general assembly....
Jon Kukla

> I have a little book called "Colonial Records of Virginia" which was
> originally published as "Senate Document - Extra" in Richmond in 1874.
> This
> version is a reprint by the Clearfield Company from 1992.  It contains a
> 16
> page article entitled "A Briefe Declaration of the Plantation of Virginia
> During the First Twelve Yeares When Sir Thomas Smith was Governor of the
> Companie & Downe to the Present Tyme" by the Ancient Planters Nowe
> Remaining
> Alive in Virginia 1624.  All spelling is theirs.  It isn't copyrighted (or
> copyrightable) since it is just copies of lists and documents.
>
> Has anybody else seen this?  And, if so, how much credence do you give it?
> It claims they resorted to cannibalism and other equally disgusting acts.
> They put the blame squarely on Smith so I don't know how politically
> motivated it may have been.  I just cannot imagine that people would have
> hated him so much as to admit they, themselves, had resorted to such
> inhuman
> and inhumane behavior.
>
> Also, it mentions several times that they built houses that fell down.
> Did
> they not have tools?  Or skills?  They were in a dense forest so they
> surely
> had plenty raw materials.  During the same time period they mention
> erecting
> forts.  Did the forts fare any better and, if so, why?
>
> Mildred "Mickey" Fournier
> 1730 SE CR 252
> Lake City, FL 32025
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia
>> history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emily Rose
>> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 7:37 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Jamestown ( was "northern bias")
>>
>> For those wondering about the "Starving Time" in Jamestown, see
>>
>> "Tree-ring data from Virginia indicate that the Lost Colony
>> of Roanoke Island disappeared during the most extreme drought
>> in 800 years (1587-1589) and that the alarming mortality and
>> the near abandonment of Jamestown colony occurred during the
>> driest 7-year episode in 770 years (1606-1612). These
>> extraordinary droughts can now be implicated in the fate of
>> the Lost Colony and in the appalling death rate during the
>> early occupations at Jamestown,the first permanent English
>> settlement in America."
>> [Stahle, David W., Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Dennis B. Blanton, Mathew D.
>> Therrell, and David A. Gay. "-the Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts."
>> Science 280, no. April 24 (1998): 564-67.]
>>
>> Great picture of tree-rings analysis that shows the drought!!
>>
>> Also, Randy, Do you by any chance have the ballad music sung
>> to  "lusty gallant"  to which "London live thou famous long" was sung?
>>
>> Emily Rose
>> Cambridge University
>>
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