Colonial Virginia, in Two Volumes: Volume I: The Tidewater Period, 1607-1710; Volume II: Westward Expansion and Prelude to Revolution, 1710-1763

xiv, 408; viii, 409-883 pp. Two volume set. The first volume carries the story of Virginia from its founding to the arrival in 1710 of vigorous, adventuresome Governor Alexander Spotswood. In this Tidewater Period, the English newcomers to the Virginia forests won their brutal fight against disease, hunger, Indians, and inexperience. The second volume continues the story from 1710 to the threshold of the Revolution, perhaps the most exciting and least known period in Virginia's early history. In this era the foundation was laid for the solution of such problems as those arising from tobacco production, land distribution, and Indian hostility. Here is told also the continuation of the story of the first "westward movement." This volume culminates in a full account of the great War for Empire and of the debates over such constitutional questions as the Pistole Fee, the Two-Penny Acts, the Parsons' Cause, and the use of the veto. By 1763, Virginia's state of mind was established--the road was open toward Revolution and the foundation of the United States.--Slipcase