Virginia History: Virginia Native Americans

Containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life ... diseases and method of cure ... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also, an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country.

"Papers collected by Lyman Draper when he was planning to publish an enlarged and revised edition of Joseph Doddridge's Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763-1783. Included are original correspondence and correspondence from descendants of Virginia settlers; military records such as orderly books, muster rolls, and correspondence; land records; maps; broadsides; biographical and genealogical sketches; wills; observations

In the Reference section, for library-use only.