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Excerpt from The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay Towards a General History of This Colony A S tbs]? Records are a very curious and valuable Piece of tbe Antiquities of our Country, 1 [ball give tbe Reader an Account of slum, wbicb I received, many Years ago, in Can verfation witb Col. Byrd and Sir john Randolph. 1 bad tben no flougbts o writing tbe Hiflory of Vi inia, and tberefore tool left otice, tban I otberwi/e jbould ave done. However, as an: perbaps tbe only Per/in now living, any tbing acquainted witb tbeir Hijlory, it will not be improper to give it to tbs Reader, as I judge it big/sly wortby of bis Knowled e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.