Virginia History in Four Volumes + Makers of Virginia History

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The History of Virginia
From Its First Settlement
To the Present Day (1804)
In Four Volumes
By John Burk, 1808
348 + 400 + 469 + 570 pages, indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book -
The History of Virginia
In Four Parts
By Robert Beverly, 1855
264 pages, indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book -
Makers of
Virginia History
By J. A. C. Chandler, 1904
347 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
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Despite the fact that Virginia had been England's oldest colony in North America and had played
a leading role in the Revolution, no comprehensive history of the Old Dominion was published for
nearly thirty years after the Declaration of Independence. Virginia had never had a full-scale history.
There were, of course, the works of early chroniclers such as Captain John Smith, the later partial
accounts of men like Hugh Jones, William Byrd, and Robert Beverley, and the whiggish
History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
(1747) by the Reverend William Stith.
Stith, the Oxford-educated rector of the parish of Henrico and president of the College of William and Mary,
did produce a work of considerable scholarship, but it covered only the colony's first seventeen years.
It was
John Daly Burk, an Irish emigre, who published during the first Jefferson administration the first
comprehensive
History of Virginia, From Its First Settlement to the Present Day
(3 Volumes, 1804-1805).
PREFACE - Makers of Virginia History.
"Virginia has been called the 'Mother of States and
of Statesmen' — a compliment justly due the "Old
Dominion." In this little book an effort has been
made to give biographical sketches of some of those
great leaders who have placed Virginia in the forefront
of American states. One great difficulty, however, has
presented itself to the author in preparing these sketches :
the impossibility of treating the many great men whom
our state has produced. When we consider, in ad-
dition to those who are treated here, such names as
Morgan the Thunderbolt, Wythe, Giles, the Barbours,
Gary, Garrington, the many Lees, Doddridge, Baldwin,
Tazewell, Taylor, the Masons, Stewart, Leigh, Grayson
and scores of others, there seems to be no end to
Virginia's distinguished sons. Each locality in the state
undoubtedly has some citizen who can truly rank as
a maker of Virginia history, though his name is not men-
tioned in this book. Our purpose, therefore, has been
to select only a few characters in the different periods
of our history, and to narrate the chief events in their
lives in such a way as to give the story of Virginia
history from 1607 to the present day. We believe
that the best way to teach Virginia history is by holding
up before the boys and girls the deeds of those men
who have done so much in the making of our history,
and at the same time to give them, on a whole, characters
worthy of their imitation. Children should get from
their school work laudable ambitions, and there is
no better way to stimulate and inspire them than
through the history of our great men."
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