ebooks Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges (Studies in American Constitutional Heritage) by From Hertzke Allen D in History

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This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about Virginia's earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived; resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published. Ms. McCartney conveys the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins; the names of the ships they sailed on; the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited; the names of their spouses and children; their occupations and their position in the colony; their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors; their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources; their ownership of land; the dates and circumstances of their death; and a host of fascinating; sometimes incidental details about their personal lives; all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary.Maps provided here identify the sites at which Virginia's earliest plantations were located and enable genealogists and students of colonial history to link most of the more than 5;500 people included in this volume to the cultural landscape. An introductory chapter; moreover; includes an overview of local and regional settlement and provides succinct histories of the various plantations established in Tidewater Virginia by 1635.