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Title Account of the Indians in Virginia and of some remarkable things in that country

Date 1689

Subjects Buccaneers, Indians of North America

Description "An Index"--P. 1-2.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
On end leaves: Frank T. Sabin, 1901.
Stanley Pargellis, who edited the manuscript for publication as "Notes and documents, An account of the Indians in Virginia" in the William and Mary Quarterly (April, 1959), p. 228-243, concludes that John Clayton is its most likely author.
For more information, consult the Special Collections Info. File.

Summary Notes compiled in England, probably extracted from letters written in Virginia by John Clayton, a Jamestown, Va., minister from 1684 to 1686 and a successful tobacco planter, who by 1688 had returned to a parish in England. Topical essays describe the physical characteristics, dress, housing, money, livelihood, rulers, diseases, education, marriage, burials, religion, method of telling time, etc., of the Virginia Indians. In addition, there are observations on the government, economy, towns, settlement patterns, churches, slave religion, rivers, and wildlife of colonial Virginia and there is a brief discussion of buccaneers in the region. With additions to the topical entries in another hand.

Extent [2], 44 p., bound ; 19 cm

Format Manuscripts, Travel literature

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 9

BibID 134177

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Manifest

Filename 991341778805867_Ayer_MS_9

Unique Identifier NL11M9V2

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