| Author | Plantagenet, Beauchamp.
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| Title | A description of the province of New Albion. And A direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely: and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers and artificers to live plentifully. And a former description, re-printed, of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses. Together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, showing the particularities, and excellency thereof. Printed in the year 1648.
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| Published | [Rochester, G. P. Humphrey, 1898]
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| Description | viii, 29 p. 24 cm.
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| Series | American colonial tracts monthly. [v. 2] no. 6, October, 1898
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| General Note | On verso of series t.-p.: Colonial tracts, no. 18.
Caption title: Colonial tracts, v. 2, no. 6.
Reprint, without acknowledgment, from Force tracts, v. 2, no. 7.
Preface signed: Beauchamp Plantagenet.
"A direction for adventurers" (chap. 3) is a reprint of a pamphlet (4 p., including Evelyn's letter) printed in 1641. cf. Sabin, v. 15, p. 185.
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| Subjects | New Albion (N.Y.)
New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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| LC Card Number | 04-27023 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 186 A512 v.2, no.6
mq144190: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 81220] |
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