[PDF] William Byrds Histories Of The Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia And North Carolina eBook

Author : William Byrd
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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This book is a comprehensive and dependable account of the first successful effort to establish the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia.

Author : William K. Boyd, Ph.d.
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496195685

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This volume contains the histories of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.

Author : William Byrd
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN : 3849622703

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The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina is an account by William Byrd II of the surveying of the border between the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia in 1728. Byrd's account of the journey to survey the contentious border with his chief surveyor William Mayo included such nuggets as the derivation of the name of "Matrimony Creek," so named because of its 'brawling' waters. (from wikipedia.com) Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 – 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia.

Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1469606941

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After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.

Author : William Byrd
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1841
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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"The manuscripts of Col. William Byrd, of Westover ..., of different dates from 1728 to 1736, are contained in a large folio volume bound in parchment, which has been carefully preserved in his family, until recently placed in the hands of the editor ... The manuscripts offer abundant internal evidence that they were written merely for the amusement of the author, and for the perusal of his family and friends, and not with any view to their being printed"--Page iii

Author : William Byrd
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1469606933

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Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover