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A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe of the affaires there till the 18 of Iune 1614. : Together. With a relation of the seuerall English townes and forts, the assured hopes of that countrie and the peace concluded with the Indians. The christening of Powhatans daughter and her mariage with an English-man.

Hamor, Ralph, -1626 · 1615 · Printed at London : By Iohn Beale for William Welby dwelling at the signe of the Swanne in Pauls Church-Yard · 9 pictures

A 1615 London pamphlet by Ralph Hamor, printed by John Beale for publisher William Welby, reporting on the English colony in Virginia, the Powhatan peace, and Pocahontas's marriage to an Englishman. The pictures are small woodcut decorative headpieces and an initial letter, with dense scrollwork, acanthus leaves, and a central cartouche or grotesque figure, which a designer could draw on for border bands, ornamental capitals, and early modern type-ornament patterns.

Pocahontas, -1617 · Powhatan Indians · Indians of North America -- Virginia · Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Imprint 1615

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