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Search - Old Virginia And Her Neighbours - Volume I

Old Virginia And Her Neighbours Volume I
Author: John Fiske

OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS BY JOHN FISKE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I Txw TennSww at wotow etru-AAA omnf ffor av ru ANAPES Aicatra BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1897 AND 1900 BY JOHN FISKE COPYRIGHT 1900 AND 1902 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO MY OLD FRIEND AND COMRADE JOHN KNOWLES PAINE COMPOSER O... more »F ST. PETER, OEDIPUS TTRANNUS, THE SPRING AND C MINOR SYMPHONIES, AND OTHER NOBLE WORKS Long days be his, and each as lusty-sweet As gracious natures find his song to be May age steal on with sofrly-cadenced feet Falling in music, as for him were meet Whose choicest note is harsher-toned than he PREFACE IN the series of books on American history, upon which I have for many years been en gaged, the present volumes come between The Discovery of America and The Be ginnings of New England. The opening chapter, with its brief sketch of the work done by Elizabeths great sailors, takes up the nar rative where the concluding chapter of cc The Discovery of America dropped it. Then the story of Virginia, starting with Sir Walter Raleigh and Rev. Richard Hakluyt, is pursued until the year 1753, when the youthful George Washington sets forth upon his expedition to warn the approaching Frenchmen from any further encroachment upon English soil. That moment marks the arrival of a new era, when a book like the present which is not a local history nor a bundle of local histories can no longer follow the career of Virginia, nor of the southern colonies, except as part and parcel of the career of the American people. That cc con tinental state of things, which was distinctly vii PREFACE heralded when the war of the Spanish Suc cession broke out during Nicholsons rule in Virginia, had arrived in 1753. To treat it properly requires preliminary consideration of many points in the history of the northern colonies, and it is accordingly reserved for a future work. It will be observed that I do not call the present work a History of the Southern Col onies. Its contents would not justify such a title, inasmuch as its scope and purpose are different from what such a title would imply. My aim is to follow the main stream of causa tion from the time of Raleigh to the time of Dinwiddie, from its sources down to its absorp tion into a mightier stream. At first our atten tion is fixed upon Raleighs Virginia, which extends from Florida to Canada, England thrusting herself in between Spain and France. With the charter of 1609 see below, vol. i. p. 169 Virginia is practically severed from North Virginia, which presently takes on the names of New England and New Netherland, and receives colonies of Puritans and Dutchmen, with which this book is not concerned. From the territory of Virginia thus cut down, further slices are carved from time to time first Maryland in 1632, then Carolina in 1663, then viii PREFACE Georgia in 1732, almost at the end of our nar rative. Colonies thus arise which present a few or many different social aspects from those of Old Virginia and while our attention is still centred upon the original commonwealth as both historically most important and in per sonal detail most interesting, at the same time the younger commonwealths claim a share in the story. A comparative survey of the social fea tures in which North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland differed from one another, and from Virginia, is a great help to the right un derstanding of all four commonwealths. To Maryland I find that I have given 125 pages, while the Carolinas, whose history begins prac tically a half century later, receive 80 pages a mere mention of the beginnings of Georgia is all that suits the perspective of the present story. The further development of these southern communities will, it is hoped, receive attention in a later work...

ISBN-13: 9781406741858
ISBN-10: 140674185X
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 444
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Publisher: Leffmann Press
Book Type: Paperback
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