Virginia Colonial Records: Difference between revisions

The first permanent European settlement in Virginia was Jamestown in 1607. These settlers were called the Virginia Company of London, and in 1609 received a charter. In 1624, the Virginia Company was dissolved when it became a royal colony. French Huguenot and German settlers arrived in Virginia by the mid-18th century. Virginia was one of the originial 13 colonies of the United States.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 475. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Library book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>

|}<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Library book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/70602 ''The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689''] by Warren M. Billings, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975). {{FSC|70602|item|disp=FS Library book 975.5 H2bi}}. {{WorldCat|77716579|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}.