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Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: The only known copy of a manuscript possibly earlier than Byrd's History (#525). This contains fewer Indian references and lacks interpolated information, but describes contact with Saponi and Nottoway Indians in 1728. Three pages missing; these are printed in Woodfin (1945), from fragments of early draft.
Collection:Secret history of the line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99s)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874
Subject:Botany | Folklore | Geography | Health | Religion | North Carolina--History | Travel | Virginia--History | Warfare | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: A finished copy, probably earlier than the Westover manuscript, from which this varies slightly. Byrd interpolated into the narrative of his tour remarks on Indian customs, religion, warfare, trade, in addition to observations on his Saponi guides. Several pages added in 1817 in hand of Nicholas Trist. Printed (from Westover manuscript) in Boyd (1929). See also Woodfin (1944).
Collection:The history of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99h)
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Language:English
Date:1948
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Geography | Indian captivities | Missions | Travel | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Captivity narratives
Extent:392 leaves
Description: Catalogue and notes prepared by Charles Marius Barbeau of holdings of Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Mass., owned and collected by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. Data on house and its contents, and bibliography of books, including some 60 Indian captivities, books on place names, Indian wars, Indian missions, travels, colonial history pertaining to New England and Canada. Extensive reading notes included.
Collection:Time Stone Farm and the collections of an old New England homestead (Mss.016.9701.G842b)