Beverley, a Virginia-born planter and official, tells the story of the colony from the first English voyages through his own day, then turns to its natural produce, the customs, religion, farming and government of the Powhatan peoples, and the colony’s government and present state. His descriptions of how the Indians planted corn, beans and peas are among the most detailed of the period.
One of the first histories written by a native-born American colonist, valued by historians of early Virginia and its native peoples. Download the free EPUB.