TRACTS AND OTHER PAPERS

RELATING PRINCIPALLY TO THE

ORIGIN, SETTLEMENT, AND PROGRESS

OF THE

COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA,

FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE COUNTRY TO THE YEAR 1776.

COLLECTED BY PETER FORCE.

Vol. III.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY WM. Q. FORCE.

1844.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844,

BY PETER FORCE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

CONTENTS

OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

I. A Trve Declaration of the estate of the Colonie in Vir-

ginia, with a confutation of such scandalous reports as

haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise.

Published by aduise and direction of the Councell of Vir-

ginia. London, printed for William Barret, and are

to be sold at the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard.

1610.-[28 pages.]

II. For the Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lavves Diuine,

Morall and Martiall, &c. Alget qui non Ardet. Res

nostræ subinde non sunt, quales quis optaret, sed quales

esse possunt. Printed at London for Walter Burre.
1612.-[68 pages.]

III. A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, now called Som-

mer Ilands. With the manner of their discouerie Anno

1609. by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir

Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are

truly set forth the commodities and profits of that Rich,

Pleasant, and Healthfull Countrie. With an Addition,

or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable mat-

ters concerning those Ilands since then experienced, lately

sent from thence by one of the Colonie now there resident.

Ecclesiastes 3: 11. God hath made every thing beautifull

in his time. London, printed by W. Stansby, for W.

Welby. 1613.-[24 pages.]