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Colony of Virginia, the Glossary

The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.^[1]

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1606 establishments in the British Empire
1776 disestablishments in the British Empire
States and territories established in 1606

Acadia

Acadia (Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.

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The Ajacán Mission (also Axaca, Axacam, Iacan, Jacán, Xacan) was a Spanish attempt in 1570 to establish a Jesuit mission in the vicinity of the Virginia Peninsula to bring Christianity to the Virginia Native Americans.

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Alexander Spotswood

Alexander Spotswood (12 December 1676 – 7 June 1740) was a British Army officer, explorer and lieutenant governor of Colonial Virginia; he is regarded as one of the most significant historical figures in British North American colonial history.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages (also Algonkian) are a subfamily of the Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group.

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Algonquian peoples

The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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American Slavery, American Freedom

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia is a 1975 history text by American historian Edmund Morgan.

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An Act for prohibiting Trade with the Barbadoes, Virginia, Bermuda and Antego

An Act for prohibiting Trade with the Barbadoes, Virginia, Bermuda and Antego or Act prohibiting Commerce and Trade with the Barbodoes, Antigo, Virginia, and Bermudas alias Summer's Islands was an Act of law passed by the Rump Parliament of England during the Interregnum against English colonies which sided with the Crown in the English Civil War.

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Angela (enslaved woman)

Angela (1619–1625), also Angelo, was one of the first enslaved Africans to be officially recorded in the Colony of Virginia in 1619.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anglo-Powhatan Wars

The AngloPowhatan Wars were three wars fought between settlers of the Colony of Virginia and the Powhatan People of Tsenacommacah in the early 17th century.

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Anne Orthwood's bastard trial

Anne Orthwood's bastard trial took place in 1663 in the then relatively new royal Colony of Virginia.

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Anthony Johnson (colonist)

Anthony Johnson (1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia.

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Antigua

Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the local population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles. Colony of Virginia and Antigua are former English colonies.

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Appomattoc

The Appomattoc (also spelled Appamatuck, Apamatic, and numerous other variants) were a historic tribe of Virginia Indians speaking an Algonquian language, and residing along the lower Appomattox River, in the area of what is now Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties in present-day southeast Virginia.

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Appomattox River

The Appomattox River is a tributary of the James River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Arthur Barlowe

Arthur Barlowe (1550–1620) was one of two British captains (the other was Philip Amadas) who, under the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh, left England in 1584 to find land in North America to claim for Queen Elizabeth I of England.

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Artisan

An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.

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Bacon's Rebellion

Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677.

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Baptists in the United States

Approximately 15.3% of Americans identify as Baptist, making Baptists the second-largest religious group in the United States, after Roman Catholics.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands. Colony of Virginia and Barbados are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas and former English colonies.

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Beaver Wars

The Beaver Wars (Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.

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Berkeley Hundred

Berkeley Hundred was a Virginia Colony, founded in 1619, which comprised about eight thousand acres (32 km2) on the north bank of the James River.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Colony of Virginia and Bermuda are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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Bermuda Hundred, Virginia

Bermuda Hundred was the first administrative division in the English colony of Virginia.

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Blackwater River (Virginia)

The Blackwater River of southeastern Virginia flows from its source near the city of Petersburg, Virginia for about 105 miles (170 km) through the Inner Coastal Plain region of Virginia (part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain).

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Cape Fear (headland)

Cape Fear is a prominent headland jutting into the Atlantic Ocean from Bald Head Island on the coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States.

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Cape Henry

Cape Henry is a cape on the Atlantic shore of Virginia located in the northeast corner of Virginia Beach.

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Cash crop

A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Chanco

Chanco is a name traditionally assigned to a Native American who is said to have warned a Jamestown colonist, Richard Pace, about an impending Powhatan attack in 1622.

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Charles City (Virginia Company)

Charles City (or Charles Cittie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

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Charlesbourg-Royal

Fort Charlesbourg Royal (1541—1543) is a National Historic Site in the Cap-Rouge neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site

The Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site is an important early colonial archaeological site on Parris Island, South Carolina, United States.

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Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.

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Chesterfield County, Virginia

Chesterfield County is a county located just south of Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Chickahominy people

The Chickahominy are a federally recognized tribe of Virginian Native Americans who primarily live in Charles City County, located along the James River midway between Richmond and Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Chickahominy River

The Chickahominy is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Chowanoc

The Chowanoc, also Chowanoke, were an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe who historically lived near the Chowan River in North Carolina.

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Christopher Newport

Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Church service

A church service (or a service of worship) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building.

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City of Henrico (Virginia Company)

The City of Henrico (also known as Henrico) is one of the oldest counties in the Colony of Virginia.

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City Point, Virginia

City Point was a town in Prince George County, Virginia, United States, that was annexed by the independent city of Hopewell in 1923.

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Clapboard

Clapboard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.

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College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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Common school

A common school was a public school in the United States during the 19th century.

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Commonwealth of England

The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649.

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Confederation

A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.

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Continental Europe

Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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Croatan

The Croatan were a small Native American ethnic group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.

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Crown colony

A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire.

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Dale's Code

Dale's Code (the Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall, also known as "Dale's Laws" or the "laws of 1612") is a governing document enacted in 1610 (then published in 1612) by the Deputy Governor of Virginia Thomas Dale.

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Dare County, North Carolina

Dare County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Discovery (1602 ship)

Discovery or Discoverie was a small 20-ton, long "fly-boat" of the British East India Company, launched before 1602.

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Divine providence

In theology, divine providence, or simply providence, is God's intervention in the Universe.

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Dutch Gap Canal

Dutch Gap Canal is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia just north of the lost 17th-century town of Henricus.

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Eastern Shore of Virginia

The Eastern Shore of Virginia is the easternmost region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Edward Maria Wingfield

Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield (1550 in Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton – 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (1593), and English colonist in America.

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Eleutheran Adventurers

The Eleutheran Adventurers were a group of English Puritans and religious Independents who left Bermuda to settle on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas in the late 1640s.

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Elizabeth City (Virginia Company)

Elizabeth City (or Elizabeth Cittie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company of London, acting in accordance with instructions issued by Sir George Yeardley, Governor.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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English overseas possessions

The English overseas possessions comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of England before 1707.

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Expulsion of the Loyalists

During the American Revolution, those who continued to support King George III of Great Britain came to be known as Loyalists.

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Fairfax Line

The Fairfax Line was a surveyor's line run in 1746 to establish the limits of the "Northern Neck land grant" (also known as the "Fairfax Grant") in colonial Virginia.

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Falling Creek Ironworks

Falling Creek Ironworks was the first iron production facility in North America.

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Farrar's Island

Farrar's Island is a peninsula on the west side of the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

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Fee tail

In English common law, fee tail or entail, or tailzie in Scots law, is a form of trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents that property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically, by operation of law, to an heir determined by the settlement deed.

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First Africans in Virginia

The first Africans in Virginia were a group of "twenty and odd" captive persons originally from modern-day Angola who landed at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August 1619.

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First Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

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Flag and seal of Virginia

The Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the official seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state.

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Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

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Flowerdew Hundred Plantation

Flowerdew Hundred Plantation dates to 1618/19 with the patent by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of Virginia, of on the south side of the James River.

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Fort Algernon

Fort Algernon (also spelled Fort Algernourne) was established in the fall of 1609 at the mouth of Hampton Roads at Point Comfort in the Virginia Colony.

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Fort Christanna

Fort Christanna was one of the projects of Lt.

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Fort Henry (Virginia)

Fort Henry was an English frontier fort in 17th century colonial Virginia near the falls of the Appomattox River.

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Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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George Percy (governor)

The Honourable George Percy (4 September 1580 – 1632) was an English explorer, author, and early Colonial Governor of Virginia.

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George Somers

Sir George Somers (before 24 April 1554 – 9 November 1610) was an English privateer and naval hero, knighted for his achievements and the Admiral of the Virginia Company of London.

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Germanna

Germanna was a German settlement in the Colony of Virginia, settled in two waves, first in 1714 and then in 1717.

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Godspeed (ship)

Godspeed was one of the three ships on the 1606–1607 voyage to the New World for the English Virginia Company of London which resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia.

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Great Treaty of 1722

The Great Treaty of 1722 was a document signed in Albany, New York by leaders of the Five Nations of Iroquois, Province of New York, Colony of Virginia, and Province of Pennsylvania.

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Hampden–Sydney College

Hampden–Sydney College (H-SC) is a private liberal arts men's college in Hampden Sydney, Virginia.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

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Henricus

The "Citie of Henricus"—also known as Henricopolis, Henrico Town or Henrico—was a settlement in Virginia founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy and dangerous area around the original English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Colony of Virginia and Henricus are former English colonies.

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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612), was the eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I, King of England and Scotland; and his wife Anne of Denmark.

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History of Methodism in the United States

The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan and Robert Strawbridge.

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History of Virginia

The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.

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History of Virginia on stamps

The history of Virginia through the colonial period on into contemporary times has been depicted and commemorated on postage stamps accounting for many important personalities, places and events involving the nation's history.

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Hogshead

A hogshead (abbreviated "hhd", plural "hhds") is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity).

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Holland

Holland is a geographical regionG.

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Hopewell, Virginia

Hopewell is an independent city surrounded by Prince George County and the Appomattox River in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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House of Burgesses

The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia.

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House of Stuart

The House of Stuart, originally spelled Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain.

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Hugh Gwyn

Hugh Gwyn (1590 - 1654) was a British colonist who owned the first legally-sanctioned slave in the Colony of Virginia, John Punch.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indentured servitude

Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.

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Indian massacre of 1622

The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of Virginia on.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Infobase

Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.

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Iroquoian languages

The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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James City (Virginia Company)

James City (or James Cittie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company.

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James River

The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Jamestown Church

Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall.

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Jamestown Exposition

The Jamestown Exposition, also known as the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907, was one of the many world's fairs and expositions that were popular in the United States in the early part of the 20th century.

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Jamestown Glasshouse

The Jamestown Glasshouse is located in Jamestown, Virginia, between Jamestown Island, the location of the first permanent English settlement in North America, and Jamestown Settlement.

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Jamestown Island

Jamestown Island is a island in the James River in Virginia, part of James City County.

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Jamestown supply missions

The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.

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Jamestown, Virginia

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Colony of Virginia and Jamestown, Virginia are former English colonies.

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Joara

Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina, about 300 miles from the Atlantic coast in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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John Casor

John Casor (surname also recorded as Cazara and Corsala), a servant in Northampton County in the Colony of Virginia, in 1655 became one of the first people of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be enslaved for life as a result of a civil suit.

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John Harvey (Virginia governor)

Sir John Harvey (died 1646) was a Crown Governor of Virginia.

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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a Scottish peer, military officer, and colonial administrator in the Thirteen Colonies and The Bahamas.

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John Pott

John Potts (or Pott) was a physician and Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century.

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John Punch (slave)

John Punch (1605 - 1650) was a Central African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first enslaved person.

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John Rolfe

John Rolfe (– March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant.

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John Smith (explorer)

John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author.

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John White (colonist and artist)

John White was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer.

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John Wolstenholme (merchant)

Sir John Wolstenholme (1562 – 25 November 1639) was an English financier and merchant-adventurer.

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Kecoughtan, Virginia

In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia.

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Kennebec River

The Kennebec River (Abenaki: Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ) is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Kent Island (Maryland)

Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. Colony of Virginia and Kingdom of Great Britain are Christian states.

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Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Ríoghacht Éireann; Ríocht na hÉireann) was a dependent territory of England and then of Great Britain from 1542 to the end of 1800. Colony of Virginia and Kingdom of Ireland are Christian states.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English. Colony of Virginia and Kingdom of Scotland are Christian states.

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Kiskiack

Kiskiack (or Chisiack or Chiskiack) was a Native American tribal group of the Powhatan Confederacy in what is present-day York County, Virginia.

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Landed gentry

The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.

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List of colonial governors of Virginia

This is a list of colonial governors of Virginia.

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List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed within the English Colony of Virginia or, after statehood, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and no longer retain the same form within its boundaries.

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List of U.S. state and territory nicknames

The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.

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London Company

The London Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of London, was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lord proprietor

A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century.

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Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Martin's Hundred

Martin's Hundred was an early 17th-century plantation located along about ten miles (16 km) of the north shore of the James River in the Virginia Colony east of Jamestown in the southeastern portion of present-day James City County, Virginia.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Colony of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony are Christian states and former English colonies.

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Mayflower

Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.

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Meherrin

The Meherrin people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who spoke an Iroquian language.

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Mennonite Church (1683–2002)

The Mennonite Church (MC), also known as the Old Mennonite Church, was formerly the oldest and largest body of Mennonites in North America.

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Mid-Atlantic (United States)

The Mid-Atlantic is a region of the United States located in the overlap between the Northeastern and Southeastern states of the United States.

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Middle Plantation (Virginia)

Middle Plantation in the Virginia Colony was the unincorporated town established in 1632 that became Williamsburg in 1699.

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Monacan Indian Nation

The Monacan Indian Nation is one of eleven Native American tribes recognized since the late 20th century by the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Nansemond

The Nansemond are the Indigenous people of the Nansemond River, a 20-mile-long tributary of the James River in Virginia.

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Native American tribes in Virginia

The Native American tribes in Virginia are the Indigenous peoples whose tribal nations historically or currently are based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Necotowance

Necotowance (Unknown birth year – died before 1655) was Werowance (chief) of the Pamunkey tribe and Paramount Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy after Opechancanough, from 1646 until his death sometime before 1655.

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Nemattanew

Nemattanew (also spelled Nemattanow; died 1621 or 1622) was a war leader of the Powhatan during the First Anglo-Powhatan War.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Northern Neck

The Northern Neck is the northernmost of three peninsulas (traditionally called "necks" in Virginia) on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Commonwealth of Virginia (along with the Middle Peninsula and the Virginia Peninsula).

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Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Nottoway people

The Nottoway are an Iroquoian Native American tribe in Virginia.

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Occaneechi

The Occaneechi are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands whose historical territory was in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina and Virginia.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Colony of Virginia and Ohio are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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Old Dominion University

Old Dominion University (ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Old Point Comfort

Old Point Comfort is a point of land located in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.

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Opechancanough

Opechancanough (1554–1646) was paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palisade

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.

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Pamlico

The Pamlico (also Pampticough, Pomouik, Pomeiok) were Native Americans of North Carolina.

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Pamunkey

The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is one of 11 Virginia Indian tribal governments recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the state's first federally recognized tribe, receiving its status in January 2016.

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Paramount chief

A paramount chief is the English-language designation for a King/Queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system.

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Paspahegh

The Paspahegh tribe was a Native American tributary to the Powhatan paramount chiefdom, incorporated into the chiefdom around 1596 or 1597.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Philip Amadas

Philip Amadas (1550 – 1618) was a naval commander and explorer in Elizabethan England.

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Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)

The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon).

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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States

Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century.

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Plymouth Company

The Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with the Virginia Company of London with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of America between latitudes 38° and 45° N.

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Pocahontas

Pocahontas (born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

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Polish American Congress

The Polish American Congress (PAC) is an American umbrella organization of Polish-Americans and Polish-American organizations.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Popham Colony

The Popham Colony—also known as the Sagadahoc Colony—was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America. Colony of Virginia and Popham Colony are former English colonies.

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Port Royal, Virginia

Port Royal is an incorporated town in Caroline County, Virginia, United States.

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Port-Royal (Acadia)

Port Royal (1605–1713) was a historic settlement based around the upper Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the predecessor of the modern town of Annapolis Royal.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Powhatan

The Powhatan people are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah.

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Powhatan (Native American leader)

Powhatan (c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607.

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Presbyterianism in the United States

Presbyterianism has had a presence in the United States since colonial times and has exerted an important influence over broader American religion and culture.

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Primogeniture

Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative.

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Prince George County, Virginia

Prince George County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Printing press

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Proprietary colony

Proprietary colonies were a type of colony in English America which existed during the early modern period.

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Province of Carolina

The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712. Colony of Virginia and province of Carolina are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas and former English colonies.

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Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America from 1634 until 1776, when the province was one of the Thirteen Colonies that joined in supporting the American Revolution against Great Britain. Colony of Virginia and province of Maryland are 1776 disestablishments in the British Empire, former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas and former English colonies.

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Province of New York

The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. Colony of Virginia and Province of New York are 1776 disestablishments in the British Empire, former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas and former English colonies.

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Province of Pennsylvania

The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. Colony of Virginia and Province of Pennsylvania are 1776 disestablishments in the British Empire, former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas and former English colonies.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Rappahannock River

The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately in length.

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Reformed Church in the United States

The Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS) is a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States.

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Restoration in the English colonies

The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the republic that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Colony of Virginia and Restoration in the English colonies are former English colonies.

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Richard Bennett (governor)

Richard Bennett (1608 – 12 April 1675) was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, serving 1652–1655.

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Richard Pace (planter)

Richard Pace was an early settler and ancient planter in colonial Jamestown, Virginia.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Roanoke Colony

Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. Colony of Virginia and Roanoke Colony are former English colonies.

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Roanoke Island

Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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Roundhead

Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651).

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Royal African Company

The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast.

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Rump Parliament

The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride commanded soldiers to purge the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.

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Samuel Argall

Sir Samuel Argall (or 1580 –) was an English sea captain, navigator, and Deputy-Governour of Virginia, an English colony.

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San Miguel de Gualdape

San Miguel de Gualdape (sometimes San Miguel de Guadalupe) was a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón.

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Santa Elena (Spanish Florida)

Santa Elena, a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island, South Carolina, was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587.

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Saponi

The Saponi are a Native American tribe historically based in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Sassafras albidum

Sassafras albidum (sassafras, white sassafras, red sassafras, or silky sassafras) is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas.

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Schwarzenau Brethren

The Schwarzenau Brethren, the German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkard Brethren, Tunkers, or sometimes simply called the German Baptists, are an Anabaptist group that dissented from Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed European state churches during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Sea Venture

Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission flotilla to the Jamestown Colony in 1609.

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Secotan

The Secotans were one of several groups of Native Americans dominant in the Carolina sound region, between 1584 and 1590, with which English colonists had varying degrees of contact.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Shire

Shire (also) is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia.

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Siouan languages

Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.

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Slovaks

The Slovaks (Slováci, singular: Slovák, feminine: Slovenka, plural: Slovenky) are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language.

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Smith's Hundred

Historical Marker: --> Smith's Hundred or Smythe's Hundred was a colonial English settlement in the Province of Virginia, in the modern United States of America.

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South Hampton Roads

South Hampton Roads is a region located in the extreme southeastern portion of Virginia's Tidewater region in the United States with a total population of 1,191,937.

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Southern Colonies

The Southern Colonies within British America consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of Carolina (in 1712 split into North and South Carolina), and the Province of Georgia. Colony of Virginia and Southern Colonies are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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Spanish Florida

Spanish Florida (La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery.

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Spanish missions in Georgia

The Spanish missions in Georgia comprised a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the Guale and various Timucua peoples in southeastern Georgia.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St.

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Starving Time

The Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was a period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610.

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State religion

A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.

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Stuart Restoration

The Stuart Restoration was the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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Suffolk, Virginia

Suffolk is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Susan Constant

Susan Constant, possibly Sarah Constant was the largest of three ships of the English Virginia Company on the 1606–1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia.

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Syms-Eaton Academy

The Syms-Eaton Academy was America's first free public school.

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Tangier, Virginia

Tangier is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States, on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. Colony of Virginia and the Bahamas are former English colonies.

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The Virginia Gazette

The Virginia Gazette is the local newspaper of Williamsburg, Virginia.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thirteen Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Colony of Virginia and Thirteen Colonies are 1776 disestablishments in the British Empire and former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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Thomas Dale

Sir Thomas Dale (157019 August 1619) was an English soldier and colonial administrator who served as deputy-governor of the Colony of Virginia in 1611 and again from 1614 to 1616.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (9 July 1576 – 7 June 1618), was an English nobleman, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named.

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Tidewater (region)

"Tidewater" is a term for the north Atlantic Plain region of the United States.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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Tobacco in the American colonies

Tobacco cultivation and exports formed an essential component of the American colonial economy.

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Tobacco Inspection Act

The Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 (popularly known as the Tobacco Inspection Act) was a 1730 law of the Virginia General Assembly designed to improve the quality of tobacco exported from Colonial Virginia.

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Treaty of 1677

The Treaty of 1677 (also known as the Treaty Between Virginia And The Indians 1677 or Treaty of Middle Plantation) was signed in Virginia on May 28, 1677, between the English Crown and representatives from Native American tribes in Virginia, including the Nottoway, the Appomattoc, the Wayonaoake, the Nansemond, the Nanzatico, the Monacan, the Saponi, and the Meherrin following the end of Bacon's Rebellion.

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Tsenacommacah

Tsenacommacah (pronounced in English; also written Tscenocomoco, Tsenacomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik) is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore.

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Tutelo

The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. Colony of Virginia and United States are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

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University Press of America

University Press of America was an academic imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group that specialized in the publication of scholarly works.

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Upper Canada

The Province of Upper Canada (province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Colony of Virginia and Upper Canada are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Colony of Virginia and Virginia are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas.

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Virginia Cavaliers

The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams representing the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville.

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Virginia Cavaliers (historical)

Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters (known as Cavaliers) in the Royal Colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration in the mid-17th century.

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Virginia Company

The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America.

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Virginia Dare

Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587; disappeared 27 August 1587) was the first English child born in an American English colony.

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Virginia General Assembly

The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, and the first elected legislative assembly in the New World.

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Virginia Governor's Council

The Governor's Council, also known as the Privy Council and Council of State, was the upper house of the legislature of the Colony of Virginia (the House of Burgesses being the other house).

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Virginia Peninsula

The Virginia Peninsula is located in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay.

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Virginia pound

The pound was the currency of Virginia until 1793.

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Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (– 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer.

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Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee or W&L) is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia.

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Weroance

Weroance is an Algonquian word meaning leader or commander among the Powhatan confederacy of the Virginia coast and Chesapeake Bay region.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Western Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania is a region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania encompassing the western third of the state.

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Weyanoke people

The Weyanoke people were an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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William Berkeley (governor)

Sir William Berkeley (16059 July 1677) was an English colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1660 to 1677.

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William Byrd II

William Byrd II (March 28, 1674August 26, 1744) was an American planter, lawyer, surveyor and writer.

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William Parks (publisher)

William Parks (May 23, 1699 – April 1, 1750) was an 18th-century printer and journalist in England and Colonial America.

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William Sayle

Captain William Sayle (1590 – 1671) was a prominent English landholder who was Governor of Bermuda in 1643 and again in 1658.

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William Tucker (Jamestown immigrant)

William Tucker (January 7, 1588– February 17, 1643-44) settled in Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia in the early 17th century.

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Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Wingina

Wingina (– 1 June 1586), also known as Pemisapan, was a Secotan weroance who was the first Native American leader to be encountered by English colonists in North America.

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Wolstenholme Towne

Wolstenholme Towne was an English settlement in the Colony of Virginia, east of the colonial capital, Jamestown.

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York River (Virginia)

The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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34th parallel north

The 34th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 34 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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38th parallel north

The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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40th parallel north

The 40th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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41st parallel north

The 41st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 41 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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45th parallel north

The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia

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