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JAMES TOWNE In the Words of Contemporaries |
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CONTENTS
0. INTRODUCTION
1. The First Landing
2. Jamestown Island
3. The Natives
4. Political Wranglings
5. Early Explorations
6. Smith Puts the Colonists to Work
7. "Starving Time"
8. Sir Thomas Dale
9. Some Industrial Beginnings
10. Tobacco
11. "James Towne," 1614 and 1616
12. The Beginnings of Home Rule
13. A "Red Letter" Year
14. The Massacre of 1622
15. George Sandys
16. "New Towne"
17. The Virginia Census of 1625
18. The End of the Virginia Company
19. The Port of Jamestown
20. Brick Houses
21. Governor Harvey Deposed
22. The Cromwellian Commonwealth
23. The Town Act of 1662
24. The Town and Its Government—1676
25. Bacon's Rebellion
26. Jamestown—In the Balance
27. The Last Statehouse
28. Jamestown Abandoned as the Seat of Government
29. Jamestown Declines
30. Bibliography
(cover of 1955 edition)
For additional information, visit the Web site for
Colonial National Historical Park
Source Book Series Number Five
1946
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 National Historic Site, the other portion of the Island, is administerd by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
A cooperative 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
J.A. Krug, Secretary
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Newton B. Drury, Director
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