A reader of the Virginia Gazette sent a letter to the printer, a copy of a letter sent from a clergyman to a King’s Attorney. In it, the clergyman opposes the opening of any new Ordinaries in the county, complaining about cards, dice, horse-racing,…
This article is an address to the public by Armistead Mason on a public disagreement between himself and John McCarty, a resident of Alexandria, in which both men exchanged insults in public. The dispute arose out of political differences and a…
A portrait of Captain John Smith, who led the founding of the Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1607. His firsthand account of interactions with the indigenous peoples like Pocahontas give a detailed look at the colonist perspective of…