Virginia: Sources

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  • Council of the State Journal. McIlwaine, Henry Read, et al. (eds.) Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1931-1982, 5 vols. online
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  • Hening's Statutes of Virginia. Hening, William Waller (ed.) The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the year 1619. Richmond, 1809-1823 (imprint varies), 13 vols. online
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  • Smith's History of Virginia. Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England. London: Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes, 1624. online
  • Swem (1918). Swem, Earl G.; Williams, John W. (ed.) A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia 1776-1918 and of the Constitutional Conventions. Richmond: Davis Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1918. online
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  • Tyler (1946). Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (ed.) Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1946 online
  • Virginia Colonial Council Journal. McIlwaine, Henry Read, et al. (eds.) Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1925-1966. 6 vols. online
  • Virginia Company Records. Kingsbury, Susan Myra (ed.) The Records of the Virginia Company of London. Washington: Government Printing Office: 1906-1935. 4 vols. online: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4
  • Virginia Convention 1775a. Proceedings of the Convention held at Richmond, in the County of Henrico, On the 20th Day of March, 1775. Williamsburg: J. Dixon and W. Hunter, 1775. online (reprint 1816)
  • Virginia Convention 1775b. The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates For the Counties and Corporations In the colony of Virginia, Held at Richmond town, in the county of Henrico, On Monday the 17th of July, 1775. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, 1775. online (reprint 1816)
  • Virginia Convention 1775c. The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates, held at the town of Richmond, in the Colony of Virginia, on Friday the 1st of December, 1775, and afterwards, by adjournment, in the city of Williamsburg. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, 1776. online (reprint 1816)
  • Virginia Convention 1776. The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates, held at the capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, in the Colony of Virginia, on Monday the 6th of May, 1776. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, [1776]. online (reprint 1816)
  • Virginia Convention 1861a. Journal of the Acts and Proceedings of a General Convention of the State of Virginia: Assembled at Richmond, on Wednesday, the Thirteenth Day of February, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-one. Richmond: W.M. Elliott, printer, 1861. online
  • Virginia Convention 1861b. Journal of the Convention Assembled at Wheeling, on the 11th of June, 1861. Wheeling: Printed at the Daily Press Book and Job Office, 1861. online
  • Virginia Gazette. The Virginia Gazette (No. 1, 6 Aug 1736-) online
  • Virginia House of Burgesses Journal 1619-1659. McIlwaine, Henry Read (ed.) Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1658/59. Richmond: Colonial Press, E. Waddey Company, 1915. online
  • Virginia House of Delegates Journal. Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, 1776- [title and place of publication vary in several volumes] online: 1776, 1777-1780, 1781-1786, 1807-1821, 1823-1824, 1826-1828, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, 1839-1840, 1842-1849, 1852, 1855-1860, 1861, 1861-1862, 1862-1863, 1863-1864, 1870-1872, 1874-1879, 1881-1904, 1906, 1910, 1912, 1916, 1918-1920, 1922
  • Virginia Ordinances 1775. Ordinances passed at a Convention held at the town of Richmond, in the colony of Virginia, on Monday the 17th of July, 1775. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, 1775.
  • Virginia Ordinances 1776. Ordinances passed at a General Convention of Delegates and Representatives, From the several Counties and Corporations of Virginia, held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the 6th of May, Anno Dom: 1776. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie [1776].
  • Virginia Senate Journal. Journal of the Senate. Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie, 1776- [title and place of publication vary in several volumes] online: 1778-1779, 1785-1790, 1792-1799, 1802-1803, 1810-1816, 1822-1829, 1832-1833, 1836-1838, 1850-1851, 1861-1862, 1870, 1879-1880, 1881-1882, 1884, 1887-1888
  • Virginia Session Laws. Acts passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia [title varies]. Williamsburg, 1776-. online
  • Virginia State Papers Calendar. Palmer, William P., et al. (eds.) Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts... Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond. Richmond: various publishers, 1875-1893, 11 vols. online: vol. 1, vols. 2-11
  • Wingfield's Discourse of Virginia. “ A discourse of Virginia. ” By Edward Maria Wingfield. Now first printed from the original manuscript in the Lambeth Library. Edited, with notes and an introduction by Charles Deane. Boston: Privately Printed, 1860. online