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Whip your credit cards out and learn something. You're wearing me out
with your godawful questions. I highly recommend "Albion's Seed" as
an introduction to colonial Virginia social history.

BIBLIOGRAPHY of Some Sources for colonial Virginia Social History &
Genealogy:

Berkin, Carol; Foner, Eric, consulting ed. (1997). First Generations
Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang.

Berkin, Carol. (2005). Revolutionary Mothers Women in the Struggle
for America’s Independence. New York: Vintage Books.

Bonomi, Patricia U. (2003). Under the Cope of Heaven Religion,
Society, and Politics in Colonial America Updated Edition. New York:
Oxford University Press, Inc.

Brown, Kathleen M. (1996). Good Wives Nasty Wenches & Anxious
Patriarchs Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill
and London: The University of North Carolina Press.

Carr, Lois Green; Morgan, Philip D.; Russo, Jean B.; eds. (1988).
Colonial Chesapeake Society. Chapel Hill & London: The University of
North Carolina Press.

Duvall, Lindsay O. (1979, rpr. 1990). Virginia Colonial Abstracts–
Series 2, Vol. 2 Lancaster County, Virginia Court Orders and Deeds
1656-1680. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc.

Fischer, David Hackett. (1989). Albion’s Seed Four British Folkways
In America. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fischer, David Hackett; Kelly, James C. (2000). Bound Away Virginia
And The Westward Movement. Charlottesville and London: University of
Virginia Press.

Fleet, Beverley, et.al. (1999). Virginia Colonial Records,
1600s-1700s Family Archives CD-Rom #503. Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc. [Contains images of 15 works, including the 3
Fleet volumes of Virginia Colonial Abstracts.]

Greene, Jack P.; Pole, J.R.; eds. (1984). Colonial British America
Essays In The New History Of The Early Modern Era. Baltimore and
London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hatfield, April Lee. (2007). Atlantic Virginia Intercolonial
Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.

Hening, William Waller. (2003). Statutes at Large Laws of Virginia
Volumes 1-13. CD-Rom CD0878. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc.
[the CD-Rom menu should list vol. 2 as: "to 1682", not: "to 1662".]

Horn, James. (1994). Adapting to a New World English Society in the
Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Chapel Hill & London: The University
of North Carolina Press.

Horn, James. (2005). A Land As God Made It Jamestown And The Birth
Of America. New York: Basic Books.

Jett, Carolyn H. (2003). Lancaster County, Virginia Where the River
Meets the Bay. Lancaster, Virginia: The Lancaster County History
Book Committee in association with The Mary Ball Washington Museum and
Library.

Kelso, William M. (2006). Jamestown The Buried Truth.
Charlottesville and London: The University Of Virginia Press.

Kolchin, Peter. (2003). American Slavery 1619-1877. New York: Hill
and Wang.

Kulikoff, Alan. (1986). Tobacco & Slaves The Development Of Southern
Cultures In The Chesapeake 1680-1800. Chapel Hill and London: The
University of North Carolina Press.

Lee, Ida Johnson. (2004). Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia
Wills, 1653-1800. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc.

Massey, Don W.; Massey, Sue. (2003). Colonial Churches of Virginia.
Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc.

Middleton, Arthur Pierce. (1984). Tobacco Coast A Maritime History
of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Baltimore and London: The
Johns Hopkins University Press.

Norton, Mary Beth. (1996). Founding Mothers & Fathers Gendered Power
And The Forming Of American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Purkiss, Diane. (2006). The English Civil War Papists, Gentlewomen,
Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain. New York:
Basic Books.

Salmon, MaryLynn. (1986). Women And The Law Of Property In Early
America. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina
Press.

Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1991). Lancaster County, Virginia
Deed & Will Abstracts 1661-1702. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.

Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1993). Lancaster County, Virginia
Order Book Abstracts 1678-1681. Arlington, VA: The Anitent Press.

Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia
Order Book Abstracts 1682-1687. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.

Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia
Order Book Abstracts 1687-1691. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.

Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia
Order Book Abstracts 1691-1695. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.

Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1998). Lancaster County, Virginia
Order Book Abstracts 1695-1699. Arlington, VA: The Anitent Press.

Sturtz, Linda L. (2002). Within Her Power Propertied Women In
Colonial Virginia. New York & London: Routledge.

Tate, Thad W.; Ammerman, David L., ed. (1979). The Chesapeake in the
Seventeenth Century Essays on Anglo-American Society. Chapel Hill:
The University of North Carolina Press.

Taylor, Alan. (2002). American Colonies The Settling Of North
America. New York: Penguin Books.

Upton, Dell. (1997). Holy Things and Profane Anglican Parish
Churches in Colonial Virginia. New Haven & London: Yale University
Press.

Varon, Elizabeth R. (1998). We Mean To Be Counted White Women And
Politics In Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill and London: The
University of North Carolina Press.

Wertenbaker, Thomas J. (1922). The Planters Of Colonial Virginia.
Princeton & London: Princeton University Press & Oxford University
Press (reprint).

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Many of these books can be sourced from amazon.com. The two CD-Roms
are currently available.

The Sparacio abstracts, compiled from courthouse records of colonial
Virginia counties, are available from:

http://www.antientpress.com

Highly recommended.
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