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• Gloucester: One of the First Chapters of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Richmond: West, Johnston and Co., 1893), by Sally Nelson Robins, illust. by Blanche Dimmock (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 (Richmond, VA: Division of purchase and printing, 1933), by Petsworth Parish (Va.), ed. by C. G. Chamberlayne (page images at HathiTrust)

• The descendants of John Stubbs of Cappahosic, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1652. (American Printing Co., 1902), by William Carter Stubbs (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Papers 52-54 on Archeology, by Ivor Noël Hume and C. Malcolm Watkins, ed. by Frank A. Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)

• Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Papers 52-54 on Archeology, by Ivor Noël Hume and C. Malcolm Watkins, ed. by Frank A. Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)

• Gloucester County (USDA-NRCS-National Cartographic and GIS Center ;, 1995), by Virginia. Division of Soil and Water Conservation, United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service, Virginia. Dept. of Environmental Quality, and National Cartography and Geographic Information Systems Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soil survey of Gloucester County, Virginia. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1980), by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and United States. Soil Conservation Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gloucester County (USDA-NRCS-National Cartographic and GIS Center ;, 1995), by Virginia. Division of Soil and Water Conservation, United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service, Virginia. Dept. of Environmental Quality, and National Cartography and Geographic Information Systems Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Virginia, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1853), by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter
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• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (2 volumes; 1850-1855), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (second series, second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1856), by William Henry Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virginia Leads (1916), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Virginia Division, contrib. by Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant
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• A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory (1906), by David E. Johnston (HTML at kinyon.com)
• The Bowmans: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory (Staunton, VA: Press of the McClure Co., 1943), by John Walter Wayland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated Standard Guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth; and Historical Events of Virginia, 1607 to 1907 (Norfolk, VA: Standard Lithographing and Publishing Co., c1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Unleashed at long last; : reconstruction in Virginia, April 9, 1865-January 26, 1870, (Printcraft press, inc., 1939), by W. H. T. Squires (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginia historical reporter (Printed for the Committee by Macfarlane & Fergusson, 1854), by Virginia Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Virginia homes and churches (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915), by Robert Alexander Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, especially Richmond (West & Johnston, 1860), by Samuel Mordecai (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginia Plutarch (University of North Carolina Press, 1929), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, the Old Dominion (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937), by Matthew Page Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of the Virginia coast ([Dietz Press], 1950), by Pocahontas Wilson Edmunds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical collections of Virginia : containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c., relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical descriptions : to which is appended, an historical and descriptive sketch of the District of Columbia : illustrated by over 100 engravings, giving views of the principal towns, seats of eminent men, public buildings, relics of antiquity, historic localities, natural scenery, etc., etc. (Babcock & Co., 1845), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kegley's Virginia frontier : the beginning of the Southwest; the Roanoke of colonial days, 1740-1783 (Roanoke, Va. : Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938., 1938), by F. B. Kegley and Southwest Virginia Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Tazewell county and southwest Virginia, 1748-1920 (W. C. Hill printing company, 1920), by William C. Pendleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. (J. L. Hill Print. Co., 1903), by Lewis Preston Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia : a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Virginia historical society at the annual meeting held December 21-22, 1891. (The Society, 1892), by Virginia Historical Society and R. A. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of Virginia in the formation of the Federal Constitution; an address delivered at the seventh annual meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, August 6, 1895. (Society of the Virginians in New York, 1911), by Roger A. Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The making of virginia and the middle colonies; 1578-1701 (Gibbings & co., 1894), by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia and Virginians; eminent Virginians ... History of Virginia from settlement of Jamestown to close of the Civil War (H.H. Hardesty, 1888), by R. A. Brock and Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Virginia : from its discovery and settlement by Europeans to the present time (Carey & Hart, 1846), by Robert R. Howison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, lieutenant-governor of the colony of Virginia, 1710-1722, now first printed from the manuscript in the collections of the Virginia historical society (The Society, 1882), by Virginia. Lieutenant-Governor (1710-1722 : Spotswood) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rending of Virginia, a history. (Mayer & Miller], 1902), by Granville Davisson Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dawn to twilight in American colonization; the story of the Sandys and others who settled Virginia and the other colonies. (Exposition Press, 1962), by Charles Herbert Sandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic St. Luke's : ... the nation's oldest standing church, a national shrine, 4 miles south of Smithfield, Va., Route 10. (s. n., 1957), by Dumas Malone and James Grote Van Derpool (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through centuries three; a short history of the people of Virginia (Printcraft press, inc., 1929), by W. H. T. Squires (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical collections of Virginia : containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to its history and antiquities. Together with geographical and statistical descriptions. To which is appended, an historical and descriptive sketch of the District of Columbia ... (W. R. Babcock, 1852), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicles of border warfare (McClain Printing Co., 1975), by Alexander Scott Withers, Lyman Copeland Draper, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Virginia homes and churches (Lippincott, 1915), by Robert A. Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Prince Edward county, Virginia, from its formation in 1753, to the present (The Williams printing co., 1922), by Charles Edward Burrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to Prince George and Hopewell (Hopewell News], 1939), by Virginia Writers' Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia; a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin & co., 1895), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The James River tourist. A brief account of historical localities on James River. (Dispatch Steam Print. House, 1879), by W. D. Chesterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Virginia, from its earliest settlement to the present time. (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852), by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia (American book company, 1898), by Royall Bascom Smithey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Border wars of the West. Comprising the frontier wars of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and embracing individual adventures among the Indians, and exploits of Boone, Kenton ... and other border heroes of the West. (Derby and Miller, 1853), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of West Virginia : in two parts (Hubbard Brothers, 1889), by Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory (Standard Ptg. & Pub. Co., 1906), by David E. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Virginia, from its earliest settlement to the present time (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872), by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of Wilburn Waters, the famous hunter and trapper of White Top Mountain; embracing early history of southwestern Virginia, sufferings of the pioneers, etc., etc. (G. W. Gary & co., printers, 1878), by Charles B. Coale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia; a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin, 1903), by John Esten Cooke and William Garrott Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-ways of Virginia history; a Jamestown memorial, embracing a sketch of Pocahontas (Everett Waddey company, 1907), by R. H. Early and Everett Waddey Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia : historical and biographical (J.B. Lippincott, 1856), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia for the use of schools (Turnbull Brothers, 1876), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia : for the use of schools (Bell, 1904), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians (B. F. Johnson publishing co., 1904), by Dabney Herndon Maury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shreds and patches of history, found mostly in Virginia (The Roycrofters, 1906), by Mildred Beatty Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia from settlement of Jamestown to close of the Civil War. (H.H. Hardesty, 1888), by R. A. Brock and Virgil Anson Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Robert E. Lee (Ginn and company, 1939), by Rose Mortimer Ellzey MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, 1492-1892; a brief review of the discovery of the continent of North America, with a history of the executives of the colony and of the commonwealth of Virginia ... (W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1893), by Margaret Vowell Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia in the making of Illinois (Illinois State Journal Co., state printers, 1919), by H. J. Eckenrode (page images at HathiTrust)
• A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians ... (B. F. Johnson, 1896), by Dabney Herndon Maury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The James river tourist, a brief account of historical localities on James river, and sketches of Richmond, Norfolk, and Portsmouth. (E. Waddey, printer, 1889), by William Dallas Chesterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical collections of Virginia; containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes &c. relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical descriptions. To which is appended, an historical and descriptive sketch of the District of Columbia. Illus. by over 100 engravings ... (Babcock & co., 1846), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of Wilburn Waters, the famous hunter and traper of White Top Mountain (G. W. Gray & co., printers, 1878), by Charles B. Coale (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. (J. L. Hill printing company, 1903), by Lewis Preston Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia for the use of schools (J. P. Bell Company, Inc., 1914), by Mary Tucker Magill and William Spenser Currell (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia for the use of schools (J. P. Bell company, inc., 1908), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia first (The Colonial dames of America in the state of Virginia, 1921), by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• School history of Virginia (Dulaney-Boatwright company, 1914), by Edgar Sydenstricker and Ammen Lewis Burger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from Virginia history, for the young (J. P. Bell, 1897), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of Virginia history (Silver, Burdett and company, 1904), by J. A. C. Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia; a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin, 1903), by John Esten Cooke and William Garrott Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907. (Standard lithographing and publishing co., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• School history of Virginia. (Dulaney-Boatwright Company, 1914), by Edgar Sydenstricker and Ammen Lewis Burger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia; a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. (J. L. Hill printing company, 1903), by Lewis Preston Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the state of Virginia. (Lilly and Wait, 1832), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Virginia : a brief textbook for schools (American Book, 1917), by Royall Bascom Smithey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia : a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1887), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Virginia, from its earliest settlement to the present time. (Lippincott, 1858), by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society. (The Society, 1833), by Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Virginia Historical Society at the annual meeting. (The Society, in the 19th century), by Virginia Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Virginia for the use of schools (J. P. Bell, 1887), by Mary Tucker Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The John P. Branch historical papers of Randolf-Macon college. Published annually by the Department of history. (Richmond (VA), 1901), by Charles Henry Ambler, William Edward Dodd, Randolf-Macon College. Ashland (VA) Dept. of History, and Randolf-Macon College. Ashland (VA) Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biennial report (Charleston, [s.n.̈, 1906), by West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History and Ohio Valley Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Randolph-Macon historical papers (Richmond, E. Waddey Co. [etc.]), by Randolph-Macon Historical Society and Ashland Randolph-Macon College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richmond College historical papers (Richmond, Va) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia; a history of the people. (Houghton Mifflin, 1911), by John Esten Cooke and William Garrott Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foot prints-- on the sands of time : a history of-- south-western Virginia and north-western North Carolina (Star Pub. Co., 1900), by A. B. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical collections of Virginia (W. R. Babcock, 1852), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Virginia, from its earliest settlement to the present time. (Lippincott, 1865), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia, historical and biographical (William S. Martien, 1850), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic history of Virginia in the seventeenth century : an inquiry into the material condition of the people based upon original and contemporaneous records (Macmillan and co., 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia : a history of the people ... (Houghton, Mifflin & co., 1899), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conduct of the French, with regard to Nova Scotia, Virginia, and other parts of the continent of North America from its first settlement to the present time : in which are exposed the falshood and absurdity of their arguments made use of to elude the force of the Treaty of Utrecht, and support their unjust proceedings : in a letter to a member of Parliament. (Printed for T. Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales;, 1754), by Thomas Jefferys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Virginia Historical Society at the annual meeting held December 21-22, 1891 : with historical papers read on the occasion, and others (The Society, 1892), by Virginia Historical Society and R. A. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social history of Virginia. An address delivered at the final commencement, 1881, of the Onancock Academy, Virginia. (Miller School Print., 1881), by Philip Alexander Bruce, Va.) Miller School (Albemarle County, Eastern Shore Academy, Miller School Miller School of Albemarle, and Onancock Eastern Shore Academy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The James River tourist. A brief account of historical localities on James River, and sketches of Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth. (J. E. Goode, printer, 1881), by William Dallas Chesterman and Virginia Steamboat Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia first / [by] Dr. Lyon G. Tyler. (The Colonial Dames of America in the state of Virginia, 1921), by Lyon Gardiner Tyler and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia: a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886), by John Esten Cooke and William Garrott Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical collections of Virginia; containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical descriptions. (W. R. Babcock, 1849), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grant's campaign in Virginia, May 1-June 30, 1864 : including the operations in the Shenandoah Valley and on the Riber James. (H. Rees, 1908), by John Henry Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907. (Standard Lithographing and Publishing co., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Virginia : from its earliest settlement to the present time (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854), by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia : a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by John Esten Cooke and Horace Elisha Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical collections of Virginia; containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical descriptions. (W. R. Babcock, 1847), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Dominion : her making and her manners. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, the Old Dominion. (Dietz Press, 1963), by Matthew Page Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Camps and firesides west of the Alleghenies (West Virginia Pub. Co., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's boundaries (Geography and Geology Dept., Christopher Newport College, 1977), by Wolf Prow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twin patriots : Washington & Lee (Norman, Remington Company, 1929), by Mary H. Flournoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lewis County in the civil war, 1861-1865 (Jarrett Printing Co., 1924), by Roy Bird Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, the Old Dominion (Dietz Press, 1949), by Matthew Page Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Roane county, West Virginia, from the time of its exploration to A.D. 1927 (W.H. Bishop, 1927), by William H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Fort Monroe (Printing plant, The Coast artillery school, 1930), by Robert Arthur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Virginia; rebirth of the Old Dominion (The Lewis publishing company, 1929), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic St. Luke's ... 4 miles south of Smithfield, Va. - route 10. ([New York, 1957), by Dumas Malone and James Grote Van Derpool (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Lower Tidewater Virginia. (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1959), by Rogers Dey Whichard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Battle of New Market : memorial address, sixty-second anniversary of the Battle of New Market, Va., May 15, 1926, with maps (Henkel Press, 1926), by John Walter Wayland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of decision (Printcraft Press, 1931), by W. H. T. Squires (page images at HathiTrust)
• The preservation of the past : an address delivered before the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (Wm. Ellis Jones, 1901), by Charles W. Kent and Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia : a history of the people (Houghton, Mifflin , 1884), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Robert E. Lee (Ginn and Company, 1939), by Rose Mortimer Ellzey MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia, 1607-1907. ([Press of W.A. Fiske], 1906), by William H. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia and Virginians; eminent Virginians, executives of the colony of Virginia (H.H. Hardesty, 1888), by R. A. Brock and Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social life of Virginia in the seventeenth century, an inquiry into the origin of the higher planter class, together with a description of the habits, customs, and diverrsions of the people. (Lynchburg, Va. : J.P. Bell, 1927., 1927), by Philip Alexander Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of Mainwaring, Hawes, Payne, and others, concerning a depredation made by the Spanish-West-India fleete upon the ship Elizabeth.: Restitution sought in Spayne, justice denied, and thereupon, according to lawe, iustice petitioned of the Honorable Houses of Parliament. In which is prayed that (out of 50000 l. deposited in the Parliaments hands, in lieu of plate and merchandize by them formerly arrested) satisfaction may bee made. ([London : s.n.], Printed anno 1646), by Randall Mainwaring, Nathaniel Hawes, George Payne, and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Notes on the state of Virginia. By Thomas Jefferson. (Philadelphia: : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street., November 12, 1794), by Thomas Jefferson and James Smither, illust. by Samuel Lewis (HTML at Evans TCP)

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