Title: The Old Dominion : essays for Thomas Perkins Abernethy /
Authors: Rutman, Darrett Bruce,; Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890-1975.; Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890-1975.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Year: 1964
Subjects: Virginia History.
Contents: The Virginia Company and its military regime, by D. B. Rutman.--Virginia and the Cherokees: Indian policy from Spotswood to Dinwiddie, by W. S. Robinson.--The War of Jenkins' Ear, by F. L. Berkeley, Jr.--The rise and decline of the Virginia aristocracy in the eighteenth century: the Nelsons, by E. G. Evans.--The fat major of the F. H. C., by Carson.--Two men on a tax: Richard Henry Lee, Archibald Ritchie, and the Stamp act, by J. C. Matthews.--Letters from Norfolk: Scottish merchants view the Revolutionary crisis, by W. M. Dabney.--Weights, measures, and mercantilism: the inspection of exports in Virginia, 1742-1820, by N. B. Jones.--Depredations in Virginia during the Revolution, by E. Cometti.--Virginia's "critical period," by A. Schaffer.--The formation of the Virginia Historical Society, by W. M. E. Rachal.