Resources for
Education, Research, & Scholarship
Part of the mission of the Jamestowne Society is to record the deeds of the early Jamestowne settlers, and to do homage to the birthplace of Virginia and the Nation.
To further this mission, we have several webpages where you can find out more about Jamestowne during the period from 1607 to 1700. Click the links to learn more.
There are several excellent online resources for information on the people and history of Jamestowne and colonial Virginia, including primary source materials:
- Library of Virginia - includes digital images of early Virginia land grants and an index of wills
- Preservation Virginia
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary
- A Jamestown Timeline at historyisfun.org
- Lehigh University online listing of original documents about Jamestowne
- Virtual Jamestown - includes first hand accounts and letters of Jamestowne
- Virginia Records 1606 - 1737, part of Thomas Jefferson's personal library now in the Library of Congress
- "The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London with Seven Related Documents; 1606-1621," by Samuel M. Bemiss, President, Virginia Historical Society, 1957
- "The Colonial Virginia Register: A List of Governors, Councillors and Other Higher Officials, and Also of Burgesses, and the Revolutionary Conventions of the Colony of Virginia," William Glover Stanard, 1902.
- "Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1619-1658/59," edited by H. R. McIlwaine, 1940.
- "Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1659/60-1693," edited by H. R. McIlwaine, 1954.
Last Update: 9 November 2016