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THE BOUNTY OF THE CHESAPEAKE

Fishing in Colonial Virginia

by

JAMES WHARTON

The University Press of Virginia
Charlottesville

Copyright(C) 1957 by
Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration
Corporation, Williamsburg, Virginia

Second printing 1973

Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Historical Booklet Number 13

FOREWORD

Just as a series of personal letters may constitute an autobiography,
so the extracts from Colonial writings that follow tell the unique
story of the fisheries of Virginia's great Tidewater. In them it is
possible to trace the measured growth of a vital industry. The
interspersed comments of the compiler are to be understood as mere
annotations. This is the testimony, then, of those who from the
beginning participated in one of the foremost natural resources of this
country.

I gratefully acknowledge guidance in rese