Old Virginia and her neighbours . his armsabout his neck, God bless you, Danvers ! Ishall keep this with my title-deeds at Tichfield ;it is the evidence of my honour, and I prize itmore than the evidence of my lands. Aboutf four months afterwards Southampton History or - , . amanu- died. Forty-three years afterwards, inscnpt 1667, his son and successor passed away, and then this precious manuscript wasbought from the executors by William Byrd,of Virginia, father of the famous historian andantiquary. From the Byrd library it passedinto the hands of William Stith, president ofWilliam and Mary Co
Old Virginia and her neighbours . his armsabout his neck, God bless you, Danvers ! Ishall keep this with my title-deeds at Tichfield ;it is the evidence of my honour, and I prize itmore than the evidence of my lands. Aboutf four months afterwards Southampton History or - , . amanu- died. Forty-three years afterwards, inscnpt 1667, his son and successor passed away, and then this precious manuscript wasbought from the executors by William Byrd,of Virginia, father of the famous historian andantiquary. From the Byrd library it passedinto the hands of William Stith, president ofWilliam and Mary College, who used it inwriting his History of Virginia, published atWilliamsburg in 1747, one of the most admir-able of American historical works. From Stithshands the manuscript passed to his kinsman,Peyton Randolph, president of the ContinentalCongress, and after his death in 1775, ThomasJefferson bought it. In 1814 ex-President Jef-ferson sold his library to the United States, andthis manuscript is now in the Library of Con-260. MAr OF TIDEWATER VIRGINIA 0 5 10 20 30 Scale ol Miles. THE CO., BUFFALO, N. SOUTHAMPTON// W .L 7L V__f Longitude VTcs
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