william byrd
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1. William Byrd married a 21-year-old widow whose dead husband was the son of a former governor of Virginia. She agreed that William’s first son would be named after him; a heritage the son wore so proudly he went on to become the future founder of Richmond. 2. William Byrd, the son, married Lucy, one…
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The poor Indians would have had less reason to complain that the English took away their land if they had received it by way of portion with their daughters. A sprightly lover is the most prevailing missionary. If a Moor may be washed white in three generations surely an Indian might have been blanched in…
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On my book blog, I have written about how absolutely fascinated I am by the Great Dismal Swamp. I have started but not yet finished Daniel A. Sayers’ A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp; started but not yet finished Charles Royster’s The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George…
Tichaona Chinyelu 