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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith
  
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FOREWORD
  
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
CONTENTS
  
MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  
EDITORIAL METHOD>
  
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES
  
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

  
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith
  
A TRUE RELATION of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Hapned in Virginia ...
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INTRODUCTION
  
Summary
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Note on Editorial Method
  
A True Relation of such occurrences and accedents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony, which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne from thence.
  
TO THE COURTEOUS READER.
  
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A TRUE RELATION of such occurrences and accidents of note, as hath hapned in Virginia, since the first planting of that Collony, which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO A True Relation
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A MAP OF VIRGINIA. With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion
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A MAP OF VIRGINIA.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL
  
TO THE HAND.
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THE DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO A Map of Virginia
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  
THE PROCEEDINGS of the English Colonie in Virginia, [1606-1612] ...
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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENGLISH COLONIE IN
  
TO THE READER.
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THE PROCEEDINGS of the English Colony in Virginia, taken faithfully out of the writings of Thomas Studly Cape-marchant, Anas Todkill, Doctor Russell, Nathaniel Powell, William Phetiplace, and Richard Pot, with the laboures of other discreet observers, during their residences.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia
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A DESCRIPTION of New England ...
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A DESCRIPTION of New England:
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For the Right Honourable, Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chiefe Justice of England.
  
TO THE HIGH Hopeful Charles, Prince of Great Britaine.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE and worthy Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, of his Majesties Councell, for all Plantations and discoveries; especially, of New England.
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Adventurers for the Countrey of New England, in the Cities of London, Bristow, Exceter, Plimouth, Dartmouth, Bastable, Totneys, etc. and in all other Cities and Ports, in the Kingdome of England.
  
IN THE DESERVED Honour of the Author, Captaine John Smith, and his Worke.
  
TO HIS WORTHY Captaine the Author.
  
TO MY WORTHY friend and Cosen, Captaine John Smith.
  
TO THAT WORTHY and generous Gentleman, my verie good friend, Captaine Smith.
  
TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith, upon his description of New England.
  
IN THE DESERVED HONOUR of my honest and worthie Captaine, John Smith, and his Worke.
  
MICHAEL PHETTIPLACE, William Phettiplace, and Richard Wiffing, Gentlemen, and Souldiers under Captaine Smiths Command: In his deserved honor for his Worke, and worth.
  
BECAUSE THE BOOKE WAS PRINTED ERE the Prince his Highnesse had altered the names, I intreate the Reader, peruse this schedule; which will plainely shew him the correspondence of the old names to the new.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF New-England,
  
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Letter to Sir Francis Bacon
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To the Right Honorable
  
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New Englands Trials
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NEW ENGLANDS TRIALS.
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL The Maister, the Wardens, and the Companie of the Fish-mongers.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE,
  
NEW ENGLANDS TRIALS.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO New Englands Trials (1620)
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New Englands Trials
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NEW ENGLAND'S TRIALS.
  
TO THE MOST HIGH And Excellent Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Duke of Cornewall, Yorke, and Albanie; Marquis of Ormond, and Rothsey; and Earle Palatine of Chester; Heire of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, etc.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE And Right Worthy Adventurers, to all Plantations and Discoveries, their friends and well-willers, especially of Virginia and New England.
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NEW ENGLANDS TRIALS, and Present Estate.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO New Englands Trials (1622)
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CONTENTS

VOLUME I

             
Foreword  ix 
Preface and Acknowledgments  xi 
Editorial Method  xx 
Abbreviations and Short Titles  xxiii 
Biographical Directory  xxvii 
Brief Biography of Captain John Smith  lv 
General Introduction  lxiii 

A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents
of Noate as Hath Hapned in Virginia ... (1608)
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Introduction  5 
Recension of the Narratives of Smith's Captivity  9 
Chronology of Events in Jamestown, 1606-1608  16 
Text  23 
Notes to Transcription  98 
Textual Annotation  111 
Bibliographical Note  116 

A Map of Virginia. With a Description
of the Countrey, the Commodities, People,
Government and Religion (1612)
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Introduction  121 
Chronology of Events in Virginia, 1608-1612  127 
Text  131 
Textual Annotation  181 
Bibliographical Note  183 
Schedule A: Limits of Exploration 1607-1609
as Indicated on the Smith/Hole Map 		 185 
Schedule B: Indian Villages and River Names  186 
Schedule C: Nations or Tribes Peripheral to
Powhatan's Domain 		 189 
Specialized Bibliography Pertinent to
the Smith/Hole Map 		 190 

The Proceedings of the English Colonie
in Virginia, [1606-1612] ... (1612)
(Part II of Map of Virginia)
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Introduction  193 
Text  199 
Textual Annotation  283 

A Description of New England ... (1616)
291

         
Introduction  293 
Chronology of Early New England, 1602-1620  298 
Text  305 
Textual Annotation  367 
Bibliographical Note  369 

Letter to Sir Francis Bacon (1618)
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Introduction  373 
Text  377 

New Englands Trials (1620)
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Introduction  387 
Text  391 
Textual Annotation  409 
Bibliographical Note  411 

New Englands Trials (1622)
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Introduction  415 
Text  419 
Textual Annotation  445 
Bibliographical Note  447 

VOLUME II
The Generall History of Virginia,
the Somer Iles, and New England ... (1623)
[A Broadside Prospectus]
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Introduction  5 
Text  7 
Textual Annotation  21 
Bibliographical Note  23 

The Generall Historie of Virginia,
New-England, and the Summer Isles ... (1624)
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Introduction  27 
Text  33 
Textual Annotation  479 
Bibliographical Note  487 

VOLUME III
An Accidence or the Path-way to Experience (1626)
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Introduction  5 
Text  9 
Textual Annotation  33 
Bibliographical Note  36 

A Sea Grammar ... (1627)
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Introduction  41 
Text  45 
Textual Annotation  117 
Bibliographical Note  120 
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The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations
of Captaine John Smith (1630)
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Introduction  125 
Text  137 
Textual Annotation  247 
Bibliographical Note  250 

Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters
of New England, or Any Where (1631)
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Introduction  255 
Text  259 
Textual Annotation  305 
Bibliographical Note  307 

Fragments
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Introduction  313 

Auxiliary Documents
371

     
Introduction  375 
Bibliography  393 
Indexes  435 

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