William Byrd's 'History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina Run in the Year of Our Lord 1728'
Author: Darin Evan Fields
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 495
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Author: Darin Evan Fields
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 495
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Byrd
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 3849622703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina is an account by William Byrd II of the surveying of the border between the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia in 1728. Byrd's account of the journey to survey the contentious border with his chief surveyor William Mayo included such nuggets as the derivation of the name of "Matrimony Creek," so named because of its 'brawling' waters. (from wikipedia.com) Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 – 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia.
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Published: 1728
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Byrd
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Byrd
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive and dependable account of the first successful effort to establish the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia.
Author: Mary Ann Radzinowicz
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1984-06-07
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521286800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises texts from the American colonial period, which bear witness to the extraordinary diversity of writing at this time.
Author: William Byrd
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Published: 2013
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative"--
Author: William Byrd
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Published: 1866
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruskin Skidmore Freer
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 740
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