Pocahontas

Online Sources: Pocahontas

"A Discourse of Virginia" by Edward Maria Wingfield
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Now first printed from the original manuscript in the Lambeth Library. Edited, with notes and an introduction by Charles Deane. A journal of transactions in the colony June 1607-April 1608, with a defense of the author's course as president.
A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia by Ralph Hamor
Call Number: F229.H24 T8 1957
Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents by Jill Lepore
Call Number: E59.F53 E53 2000
ISBN: 0195154916
Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Call Number: F229.T982 N2
Original narratives of early American history

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The Capture and Release of Captain John Smith by John Smith
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including his rescue from death by Pocahontas : in his own words
The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631 by John E. Smith
Call Number: F229.S652 C65 1986
ISBN: 080781525X
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles by John Smith
Call Number: F229.S652 G3
The Letters of John Chamberlain by John Chamberlain
Call Number: DA391.1.C4 A4

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