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  2. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Name Occupation Alt. names Death date (YYYY-MM-DD) [note 1] Notes Henry Adling: Gentleman Adding, H. Jerome Alicock: Gentleman Alikok Ancient, Jeremy 1607–08–04 Slain by natives [10] Gabriel Archer: Captain and Gentleman Archer, Gabriell 1609 or 1610 winter Secretary to the Council (lawyer) [11] John Asbie: 1607–08–06

  3. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Virginia's bird fauna comprises 422 counted species, of which 359 are regularly occurring and 214 have bred in Virginia, while the rest are mostly winter residents or transients. [139] Water birds include sandpipers, wood ducks, and Virginia rail , while common inland examples include warblers, woodpeckers, and cardinals, the state bird .

  4. List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses - Wikipedia

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    The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978, A Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, 1978. ISBN 978-0-88490-008-5. Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902.

  5. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the ...

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    The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (often abbreviated to The Generall Historie) is a book written by Captain John Smith, first published in 1624. The book is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, histories of the territory administered by the London Company .

  6. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    For example, Lt. Col. Powhatan Bolling Whittle of the 38th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army was an uncle of Matoaka Whittle Sims. [ 11 ] In 1907, the Jamestown Exposition was held near Norfolk to celebrate the tricentennial of the arrival of the first English colonists and the founding of Jamestown.

  7. George Washington - Wikipedia

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    The name, meaning "devourer of villages", had been given to his great-grandfather John Washington in the late 17th century by the Susquehannock. [20] Washington's party reached the Ohio River in November 1753 and was intercepted by a French patrol. The party was escorted to Fort Le Boeuf, where Washington was received in a friendly manner.

  8. Where did the name winter come from? How the season got ... - AOL

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    The word winter comes from an old Germanic word for “time of water,” a reference to the heavy rain and snow this time of year, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

  9. Virginia Women in History - Wikipedia

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    Cynthia Eppes Hudson (born 1959), Nottoway County, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia; Mary Virginia Jones (born 1940), Prince William County, mechanical engineer [35] Louise Harrison McCraw (1893–1975), Buckingham, author and executive secretary of the Braille Circulating Library; Doris Crouse-Mays (born 1958), Wythe County, labor leader