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Book Sources: Byrd Family of Virginia

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Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739-1741 by William Byrd
Call Number: F229.B995 A4 W887 1942
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover by Kevin Joel Berland (Editor); Jan Kirsten Gilliam (Editor); Kenneth A. Lockridge (Editor)
Call Number: F229 .B94 2001
ISBN: 9780807826126
Publication Date: 2001-03-26
Correspondence of the three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776 by Marion Tinling
Call Number: F229 .C8 1977
ISBN: 0813906695
Description of the Dismal Swamp and a proposal to drain the Swamp by William Byrd
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
An essay upon the government of the English plantations ... by Edited by Louis B. Wright
Call Number: JK54 .E78
The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia by William Byrd
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
His secret diary for the years 1709-1712. Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling.
Selections from The secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712.
Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina by William Byrd
Call Number: F229.B995 H6
Contains the author's "The history of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina" and "The secret history of the line," which is another version of the same subject matter, printed on opposite pagings.
A Journey to the land of Eden, Anno 1773 [i.e. 1733] by William Byrd
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The London Diary, 1717-1721, and other Writings by William Byrd
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling.
Prose Works; Narratives of a Colonial Virginian by William Byrd
Call Number: F229.B995 P9
Edited by Louis B. Wright.
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 by William Byrd
Call Number: F229.B995 A4 W951 1941
Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling.
The Westover Manuscripts by William Byrd
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
containing the history of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A journey to the land of Eden, A.D. 1736: and A progress to the mines. Written from 1728 to 1736,and now first publshed. By William Byrd
The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd, of Westover in Virginia, esqr." by William Byrd
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
ed. by John Spencer Bassett. Illustrated.

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