The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 by James R. Perry

The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

James R. Perry

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The dissolution of the ill-starred Virginia Company in 1624 left Virginia -- now England's first royal colony -- without a formal raison d'etre. Most historians have suggested that the nascent local societies were anarchic, under the thrall of vio...

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