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AMERICA'S OLDEST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
and Its Jamestown Statehouse
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CONTENTS

a. Introduction

b. The First Assembly, 1619

c. The Assembly, 1620—39

d. Early Meeting Places

e. John Harvey's Residence

f. The First Statehouse

g. Discovery of Foundations of First Statehouse

h. Later Statehouses
    The Second Statehouse
    The Third Statehouse
    The Fourth (and Last) Statehouse

i. Bibliography

j. Appendix I: Members of the First Assembly in 1619

k. Appendix II: Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619

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Colonial National Historical Park


Interpretive Series History No. 2
Revised 1956

NPS seal This publication relates to Jamestown Island, Va. A portion of Jamestown Island is included in Colonial National Historical Park and is administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. Jamestown Island National Historic Site, the other portion of the Island, is administered by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. A cooperating agreement between the Association and the Department of the Interior has been in effect since 1940 providing for a unified program of development for the whole Jamestown Island area.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fred A. Seaton, Secretary

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Conrad L. Wirth, Director


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"...the assembly of 1619 is of first importance in our annals; it was indeed, the "mother" of the American representative legislature."

EDWARD CHANNING,
History of the United States

"In so far as America is concerned, the evolution of colonial self-government is the most important development of the seventeenth century. Spain, Portugal, France, and the United States of the Netherlands had colonies, but in none of these was self-government considered practicable or desirable."

MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS,
Virginia, the Old Dominion



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