title: Colonial Virginia: A History (History of the American Colonies)
author:  Warren M. Billings 
description: Book by Warren M. Billings, John E. Selby, Thad W. Tate
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  ** Sabin's Reprints.  
    
  No. V.**
  
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  #  THE  
    
  PRESENT STATE  
    
  OF  
    
  VIRGINIA.
  
  **BY**
  
  ## HUGH JONES, A. M.
  
  ** NEW YORK:  
  REPRINTED FOR JOSEPH SABIN.  
  1865.**
  
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  Two Hundred Copies Printed.  
    
  No. 175 JS  
    
  ALVORD, PRINTER.
  
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  #  THE  
  PRESENT STATE  
  OF  
  VIRGINIA.
  
  **GIVING**
  
  A particular and short Account of the _Indian_ , _English_ , and _Negroe_
  Inhabitants of that Colony.
  
  Shewing their Religion, Manners, Government, Trade, Way of Living, &c. with a
  Description of the Country.
  
  From whence is inferred a short VIEW  of
  
  **Maryland** _and_ **North Carolina** .
  
  To which are added,
  
  Schemes and Propositions for the better Promotion of Learning, Religion,
  Inventions, Manufactures, and Trade in _Virginia_ , and the other
  _Plantations_ .
  
  For the Information of the _Curious_ , and for the Service of such  as are
  engaged in the _Propagation of the Gospel_ and _Advancement of Learning_ , and
  for the Use of all Persons concerned in the
  
  Virginia _Tra