CONTENTS
a. Introduction
b. The First Assembly, 1619
c. The Assembly, 162039
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
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
"...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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