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d Mary Quarterly_, 3rd Series, V, 177-184 (April, 1948). Rolfe, John, _A True Relation of Virginia_ [in 1616] as printed by Henry C. Taylor. New Haven, 1951. Sams, Conway Whittle, _The Conquest of Virginia_. 4 volumes ("The Forest Primeval," "The First Attempt," "The Second Attempt," and "The Third Attempt"). New York, 1916-1939. Smith, John, _The Travels and Works of Captain John Smith_. Edited by Edward Arber with introduction. Edinburgh, 1910. 2 volumes. Stanard, Mary Newton, _The Story of Virginia's First Century_. Philadelphia, 1928. Strachey, William, _The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612)_. Edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund and printed for the Hakluyt Society. London, 1953. (Also available in an edition edited by H. H. Major. London, 1849.) Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (ed.), _Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625_. New York, 1930. _The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River_. Richmond, Va., 1906 (2nd edition). Virginia Company, _The Records of the Virginia Company of London_. Edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury. Washington, D. C., 1906-1935. 4 volumes. Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, _The First Americans 1607-1690. A History of American Life_, Volume II. New York, c.1927 (various printings). Wingfield, Edward Maria, _A Discourse of Virginia_. Edited by Charles Deane. Boston, 1860. Wright, Louis B., _Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization: 1607-1761_. New York, 1947. Yonge, Samuel H., _The Site of Old "James Towne" 1607-1698_. Richmond, c.1907 (several reprints). APPENDIX SUPPLIES FOR VIRGINIA One of the most informative ways, perhaps, to get an idea of daily living in early Virginia is to read, and study, a list of the household, personal and general objects which were sent to the Colony. One of the most detailed such lists that has been preserved is one that itemizes the cargo sent in the ship, _Supply_, which left England in September, 1620, bound for Berkeley Hundred. This is given in digest below. It is adapted from the list in the Smith of Nibley Papers and is available in published form in the _Bulletin of the New York Public Library_, III, No. 7 (July, 1899), pp. 283-290 as well as in the _Records of the Virginia Company of London_, III, pp. 385-393. Bought at London 15 grosse of buttons; 60 eles of linnen cloth; 15 eles of canvas; 10 yards of blue linnen for facinge the doublets; tape and thread; 4
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