The primary focus of this work is to narrate the most prominent events in the history of Virginia, and to give a geographical and statistical view of its condition before the year 1845. Information for this work was obtained by traveling over the entire state, collecting materials, taking sketches for illustrations, and via written communications. This text is comprised of three parts. The first part, a general history, surveys events from the discovery of America and first settlement of Virginia until 1845. The second part presents a geographical and statistical description of Virginia,...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: s mended a new consideration of the matter by the General Assembly, alleging, upon the authority of Nicholson's report, that New York was the barrier of Virginia against the Indians and French of Canada; and as such, it was but justice she should defend it. The assembly deemed it but due respect to his majesty to take the subject again into consideration, hut found no reason to change their former opinion,...