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Title: The Present State of Virginia

Author: Hugh Jones

Release Date: June 6, 2009 [EBook #29055]

Language: English

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Sabin's Reprints.

No. V.

THE PRESENT STATE OF VIRGINIA.

BY

HUGH JONES, A. M.

NEW YORK:
REPRINTED FOR JOSEPH SABIN.
1865.

TWO HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED.

No. 175 JS

ALVORD, PRINTER.

THE PRESENT STATE OF VIRGINIA.

GIVING

A particular and short Account of the
_Indian_, _English_, and _Negroe_ Inhabitants of that
Colony.

Shewing their Religion, Manners, Government,
Trade, Way of Living, &c. with a Description of
the Country.

From whence is inferred a short VIEW of
MARYLAND _and_ NORTH CAROLINA.

To which are added,
Schemes and Propositions for the better Promotion of
Learning, Religion, Inventions, Manufactures, and Trade in
_Virginia_, and the other _Plantations_.

For the Information of the _Curious_, and for the Service of such
as are engaged in the _Propagation of the Gospel_ and _Advancement
of Learning_, and for the Use of all Persons concerned in the
Virginia _Trade and Plantation_.

GEN. ix. 27.

_God shall enlarge_ JAPHETH, _and he shall dwell in the Tents of_ SHEM,
_and_ CANAAN _shall be his Servant_.

By _HUGH JONES_, A. M.

Chaplain to the Honourable Assembly, and lately Minister of
_James-Town_, &c. in _Virginia_.

_LONDON_:

Printed for J. CLARKE, at the _Bible_ under the _Royal-Exchange_.
M DCC XXIV.