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Evans, Emory THOMAS NELSON OF YORKTOWN Revolutionary Virginian
Williamsburg, VA Colonial Williamsburg Found 1975 First Edition; Various Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Signed by Author
Author signed bookplate. Nelson was a third generation member of a mercantile family whos founder had arrived in Virginia in 1705, Within fifty years the Nelsons of Yourtown had become- by virtue of business acumen, political energy, and marriages into the planter aristocracy-- one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful families. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover. Rare. Beautiful scarce collectors grade copy of this book.; Signed by Author
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Goodwin, William Archer Rutherfoord The Record of Bruton Parish Church
Richmond, VA The Dietz Press 1941 First Edition; Various Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
History of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia with complete index. Bruton Parish Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. Dust is in mylar protective cover. Excellent reference material and history. We provide delivery tracking on US orders. ; Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages;
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Hume, Ivor Noel The Virginia Adventure Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey
Knopf 1994 0394564464 / 9780394564463 First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket Signed by Author
Signed by author on bookplate. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover. Beautiful scarce collectors grade copy of this book. For thirty-five years, as writer, lecturer, and chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, Ivor Noel Hume has enlivened for us the material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. After his warmly praised book Martin's Hundred, he now turns to the two earliest English outposts in Virginia -- Roanoke and James Towne -- and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. He illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history: the exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts a recent important excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk This is an account of high and low adventure, of noble efforts and base impulses, and of the inevitably tragic interactions between Indians and Europeans, marked by greed, treachery, and commonplace savagery on both sides. The astonishment of this history is that despite bad luck, bad management, and bad blood, the English presence in America persisted and the Virginia settlements survived as the birthplace of a country founded on English law and language.With clarity, authority, and elegant wit, Noel Hume has enhanced our understanding of the historical forces and principal players behind England's first perilous ventures into the New World, and proved again that he is without a doubt one of the great interpreters of our early colonial past. ; 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.4 Inches; 491 pages; For thirty-five years, as writer, lecturer, and chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, Ivor Noel Hume has enlivened for us the material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. After his warmly praised book Martin's Hundred, he now turns to the two earliest English outposts in Virginia -- Roanoke and James Towne -- and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. He illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history: the exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts a recent important excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk This is an account of high and low adventure, of noble efforts and base impulses, and of the inevitably tragic interactions between Indians and Europeans, marked by greed, treachery, and commonplace savagery on both sides. The astonishment of this history is that despite bad luck, bad management, and bad blood, the English presence in America persisted and the Virginia settlements survived as the birthplace of a country founded on English law and language. With clarity, authority, and elegant wit, Noel Hume has enhanced our understanding of the historical forces and principal players behind England's first perilous ventures into the New World, and proved again that he is without a doubt one of the great interpreters of our early colonial past.; Signed by Author
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Rattermann, H. A.; Tolzmann, Don Heinrich A German Regiment Among the French Auxiliary Troops of the American Revolutionary War H. A. Rattermann's History
Clearfield Co 1999 0806349107 / 9780806349107 Various Paperback Fine with no dust jacket
Green booklet looks new. Very clean contents. Book now in archival sleeve to protect condition.While it is widely known that German soldiers from Hesse (Hessians) fought on the British side of the American Revolution, it is less well known that among our French allied forces were a number of German units. For example, more than half of the 300 men recruited in France by Lafayette in 1779 hailed from Alsace-Lorraine and southwestern Germany. According to one authority, it is possible that the German enrollment in the French cause may have equaled the figure of 30,000 ascribed to Germans among the British forces. One such unit of German soldiers was the Royal German Regiment Zweibrucken, or Deux-Ponts, led by Prince Christian von Zweibrucken. The Royal German Regiment Zweibrucken is the focal point of this publication, which is based upon a heretofore unpublished manuscript by H.A. Rattermann found among the papers in the Rattermann Collection at the University of Illinois-Urbana by the noted German-American authority, Don Heinrich Tolzmann, who also edited the manuscript for publication. Rattermann's account follows Prince Zweibrucken and his charges from April 15, 1780, when they sailed for America. After landing in Newport, Rhode Island on July 11, Zweibrucken's unit encamped at various places in New England. During the spring and summer of the following year, Deux-Ponts was instrumental in launching feint attacks against British General Henry Clinton's forces in New York, while a large American army was beginning to amass against Cornwallis in Virginia. The German unit eventually arrived in Williamsburg on September 26, 1781, and from October 14-17, contributed to the U.S. victory at Yorktown--ironically by fighting directly opposite Hessian forces. Augmenting the account of Prince Zweibrucken's auxiliary forces are an extensive bibliography devoted to the German role in the Revolution, an itemization of a handful of other German allied units, and a clarifying Introduction and Conclusion on the German and German-American presence in this great conflict. Dr. Tolzmann has made a valuable contribution to the literature of the American War for Independence by bringing this manuscript to the light of day. Scarce. ; 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.3 Inches; 60 pages
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Reps, John William Tidewater towns city planning in colonial Virginia and Maryland,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; distributed by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville 1972 0910412871 / 9780910412872 First Edition; Various Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket Signed by Author
Author signed bookplate on endpaper. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover. Prior owners name and book plate in front. ; Williamsburg architectural studies; Maps, illustrations; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9"; 345 pages; Signed by Author
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Rouse, Parke, Jr. Below the James Lies Dixie Smithfield and Southside Virginia
Dietz Pr 1968 087517048X / 9780875170480 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket Signed by Author
Author Signed on end paper. Former owners name in front otherwise clean contents. Parke Rouse, Jr. was born in Smithfield and spent summers on his grandparents' Berry Hill Farm in Isle of Wight. Graduating from Washington and Lee University, he served as Sunday editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch before joining the staff of Colonial Williamsburg. In 1957 his state chose him to direct its 350th anniversary, centering at Jamestown. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover. ; Photos and illustrations; 9.20 X 6.10 X 0.70 inches; 127 pages; Signed by Author
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Sellers, John R. The Virginia Continental Line (Author Signed)
Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, Williamsburg 1978 First Edition; Various Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket Signed by Author
Author signed bookplate inside along with former owner bookplate. Rare. Now in archival sleeve to protect condition.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 84 pages; Signed by Author
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![WILLIAMSBURG, MASSACHUSETTS 1771-1971 COMMEMORATING THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS [FACT AND FABLE: HAYDENVILLE-WILLIAMSBURG], O'Connor, James P. (edited by)](shop_image/product/58940.jpg "WILLIAMSBURG, MASSACHUSETTS 1771-1971 COMMEMORATING THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS [FACT AND FABLE: HAYDENVILLE-WILLIAMSBURG], O'Connor, James P. (edited by)")
