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The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia. Now First Ed. by R.h. Major
The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia Now First Ed by Rh Major Author:William Strachey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTION. The Editor was extremely desirous of commencing this introduction with a short biographical notice of "William Strachey, the author of the following pages ; but notwithstanding that he has used his best exertions, he has been unsuccessful in discovering anything more respecting him, than such few points as connect him immediately with the subject of the work itself.1 The place and date of his birth, as well as those of his death, are unknown. That he was a person of importance in Virginia we shall hereafter show. But in the absence of sufficient materials to make even the i The Editor having communicated with Sir Henry Strachey, Bart., of Sutton Court, Somersetshire, as to the possibility of his connexion with the Strachey of this MS., was kindly permitted, through the obliging medium of Edward Strachey, Esq. of Clifton, and William Strachey, Esq. of London, to inspect the family pedigree. From this it appeared that there was a William Strachey of Saffron Walden, who was married in 1588, and was alive in 1620, a range of years including the period of our MS. : but no mention was made of his having been to Virginia. It is remarkable, however, that his grandson of the same name is especially referred to as having emigrated to that place. It would appear not improbable that the former of them may be identical with the Virginian adventurer, and that the latter may have gone to America under the influence of his grandfather's distinguished connexion with the colony. Mention is made twice or thrice in various of the Harleiau MSS. of a William Strachey of Saffron Walden about the same period....« less