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- “A Declaration of the State of the Colonie and...
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- “Against ffornication” (1662)
- “Against Runawayes” (1669)
- “Against Runnaway Servants” (1658)
- “An act concerning runaways” (1669–1670)
- “An act concerning Servants and Slaves” (1705)
- “An act declaring all the acts, orders and proceedings...
- “An act declaring that baptisme of slaves doth not...
- “An Act directing the trial of Slaves, committing capital...
- “An act enabling freemen to vote for burgesses and...
- “An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco; and...
- “An Act for Exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting...
- “An act for keeping holy the 13th of September”...
- “An Act for making more effectual provision against Invasions...
- “An act for preventing Negroes Insurrections” (1680)
- “An act for prevention of undue election of Burgeses”...
- “An act for punishment of ffornication and seaverall other...
- “An act for regulating the Elections of Burgesses; for...
- “An Act for repealing an Act for Irish Servants”...
- “An act for suppressing outlying slaves” (1691)
- “An act for the more effectuall suppressing the severall...
- “An act lymiting masters dealing with their servants” (1677)
- “An act prohibiting servants to goe abroad without a...
- “An Act to declare who shall have a right...
- “An Act to enable the inhabitants of this Colony...
- “An act to enable the inhabitants of this colony...
- “An act to repeale a former law makeing Indians...
- “An Acte against Conjuration Witchcrafte and dealing with evill...
- “An Acte towching dyvers Orders for Artificers Laborers Servantes...
- “An Argument Before the General Court of Colonial Virginia”...
- “Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic and Martial for...
- “By the King, A Proclamation, For Suppressing Rebellion and...
- “Concerning Hireing of Servants” (1658)
- “Concerning Huie and Cries.” (March 1657)
- “Concerning Indians” (1662)
- “Concerning secret Marriages” (1658)
- “Cruelty of masters prohibited” (1662)
- “Denization of Herman” (January 28, 1661)
- “Eight hundred choise persons”; an excerpt from A Declaration...
- “Election of burgesses by whome” (1670)
- “English running away with negroes” (1661)
- “How long Servants without Indentures shall Serve” (1658)
- “Instructions to George Yeardley” by the Virginia Company of...
- “John Smith,” from The History of the Worthies of...
- “Man Servants getting any bastard child to make satisfaction...
- “Masters of Ships to provide fower months provisions” (1662)
- “Negro women not exempted from tax” (1668)
- “Negro womens children to serve according to the condition...
- “Ordinances Directions and Instructions to Captaine John Woodleefe” by...
- “The gouernment left to Captaine Yearly,” from Book 4...
- “The order about Jayle birds” (1670)
- “What tyme Indians serve” (1670)
- “Women Causing Scandalous Suites to be Ducked” (1662)
- “Women servants gott with child by their masters after...
- “Women servants whose common imployment is working in the...
- “Henry Blow, William Blow, Samuel Blunt, Trustees, to the...
- “Saturday, September 21, 1734,” Journals of the House of...
- “The discovery of New Brittaine. Began August 27. anno...
- A Map of Virginia. With a Description of the...
- A true and sincere declaration of the purpose and...
- A True relation of such occurrences and accidents of...
- Newes from Virginia. The lost Flocke Triumphant by Lord...
- Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord D-La-Warre, Lord...
- A Memoriall Concerning the Mal-administrations of His Excellency Francis...
- Account of the Lottery in Leicester by Rogert Hawfeilde...
- Alexander Spotswood (1676–1740)
- An Act for better regulating and training the Militia...
- An Act for raising levies and recruits to serve...
- An act for regulating and disciplining the Militia (May...
- An excerpt from A Declaration of the state of...
- An Ordinance and Constitution of Treasurer and Company in...
- Archibald Cary (1721–1787)
- Arriving in Virginia; an excerpt from “Short Report of...
- Arthur Allen (ca. 1652–1710)
- Benjamin Bluett (1580–1621)
- Blair, Sarah Harrison (1670–1713)
- Burgesses for the Assembly of 1619
- Carter Burwell (1716–1756)
- Chapter 1, Book 3 of The Generall Historie of...
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- Chapters 10–11, Book 3 of The Generall Historie of...
- Charles Carter (1732–1796)
- Charles Carter (1732–1806)
- Charles Carter (ca. 1707–1764)
- Christopher Calthorpe (ca. 1560–1662)
- Colonial Virginia
- Court Ruling on Anthony Johnson and His Servant (1655)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Defining the Franchise (1646)
- Defining the Franchise (1655)
- Defining the Franchise (1656)
- Denying Free Blacks the Right to Vote (1724, 1735)
- Edmund Jenings (1659–1727)
- Edmund Jenings Removed from Governor’s Council (1726)
- Edward Chilton (1658–1707)
- Edward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631)
- Elections in Colonial Virginia
- Fielding Lewis (1725–1781 or 1782)
- First Charter of Virginia (1606)
- Francis Howard fifth baron Howard of Effingham (bap. 1643–1695)
- Francis Howard to William Blathwayt (1687)
- Francis Nicholson (1655–1728)
- General Court Hears Case on Witchcraft (1626)
- General Court Responds to Runaway Servants and Slaves (1640)
- Gentry in Colonial Virginia
- George Brent (ca. 1640–by 1700)
- George Brooke (d. 1782)
- George I (1660–1727)
- George Percy (1580–1632 or 1633)
- George Thorpe (bap. 1576–1622)
- George Wythe (1726 or 1727–1806)
- Getting the Past “Right”
- Giles Bland (bap. 1647–1677)
- Governor Effingham Reveals a Planned Slave Insurrection (1687)
- Governor’s Council, The
- Henry Corbyn (1628 or 1629–ca. 1676)
- House of Burgesses
- Protected: Indentured Servant and Slave Patrols in Virginia
- Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Instructions from the Virginia Company of London to the...
- Irish Servants (1655)
- Isaac Allerton (ca. 1630–1702)
- Jacob Rowe Sanctioned in Debate over Two Penny Bill...
- James II (1633–1701)
- Jaquelin Ambler (1742–1798)
- John Armistead (fl. 1650s–1690s)
- John Berkeley (ca. 1560–1622)
- John Carter (1695 or 1696–1742)
- John Carter (ca. 1613–1670)
- John Cheesman (ca. 1598–by 1665)
- John Custis (1678–1749)
- John Custis (ca. 1654–1714)
- John Murray fourth earl of Dunmore (ca. 1730–1809)
- John Nickson Runs Away (1687)
- John Robinson (1705–1766)
- John Smith (bap. 1580–1631)
- Law Prohibiting Indentured Servants from Hiring Themselves Out (1643)
- Law Regulating Indentured Servants (1643)
- Law Regulating Marriage of Indentured Servants (1643)
- Laws Concerning Indentured Servants (1619)
- Lee’s Resolution (1776)
- Letter from Robert “King” Carter to William Cage (1724)
- Letter from the Council in Virginia to the Virginia...
- Letter from the Council of the Virginia Company of...
- Letter from the Governor’s Council to the Virginia Company...
- Lewis Burwell (1651 or 1652–1710)
- Lewis Burwell (bap. 1622–ca. 1652)
- Lewis Burwell (d. 1743)
- Miles Cary (bap. 1623–1667)
- Miles Cary (d. 1709)
- Nathaniel Bacon (bap. 1620–1692)
- Olive Branch Petition (1775)
- Parish in Colonial Virginia, The
- Parishes and Tithes (1643)
- Petition from Alderman Johnson, et al., to King James...
- Phillip Mongom Accused of Stealing Hogs (1660)
- Proclamation from Governor Nicholson (1690)
- Punishment for the Enslaved Man Sam (1688)
- Ralph Hamor (bap. 1589–by October 11, 1626)
- Requesting to Hire an Indian Servant (1711)
- Rewarding Birkenhead (1663)
- Robert Abrahall (fl. 1620s–1680s)
- Robert Beverley (ca. 1740–1800)
- Robert Beverley (d. 1722)
- Robert Burwell (1720–1777)
- Robert Carter (ca. 1664–1732)
- Robert Dinwiddie (1692–1770)
- Runaway Enslaved People and Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Runaway Servants (1643)
- Second Charter of Virginia (1609)
- Sir George Yeardley (bap. 1588–1627)
- Sir John Harvey (ca. 1581 or 1582–by 1650)
- Sir Thomas Gates (d. 1622)
- Sir Walter Raleigh’s Patent to Settle Virginia (1584)
- Smith, Chapter 2, Book 3 of The Generall Historie...
- Spotswood’s Treaty with Nottoway (February 27, 1714)
- Surrender to Parliament (Treaty of Jamestown)
- Testimony about the Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)
- Testimony about the York County Conspiracy (1661)
- The Case of Grace Sherwood (1706)
- The Deaths of Elizabeth Abbott and Elias Hinton (1624)
- The General Assembly Adjourns (1776)
- The General Assembly Convenes (1619)
- The humble Petition of Jane Dickenson Widdowe (1624)
- The Original Jamestown Settlers; an excerpt from The Generall...
- Theodorick Bland (bap. 1630–1672)
- Third Charter of Virginia (1612)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Thomas West twelfth baron De La Warr (1576–1618)
- Virginia Company of London
- Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act (1765)
- Walter Chiles (1609–after July 6, 1653)
- William Anne Keppel second earl of Albemarle (1702–1754)
- William Beverley (ca. 1696–1756)
- William Byrd (1674–1744)
- William Byrd (1728–1777)
- William Capps (fl. 1609–1630)
- William Churchhill (1649–1710)
- William Cocke (1672–1720)
- William Cole (1638 or 1639–1694)
- William Peirce (d. btw. 1645 and 1647)
