Notes On Sources
A. Virginia Company Records. Since the Court (or Minute) Book for the Virginia Company for January 28, 1606 to February 14, 1615 disappeared after 1623(3) the only reliable (and likely incomplete) source is Alexander Brown's The Genesis of the United States - under the various family or individuals' names.
B. Wingfield's "A Discourse of Virginia" ("...upon the truth of this journal do pledge my faith, and life...") is, incredibly, not drawn on as source material in four recent books on Jamestown . The first published version was only seen by a few people (through private subscription); and so the first time Wingfield's account was seen by a larger public - in New York and Glasgow - was not until 1905-1906, in Purchas, His Pilgrimes, vol. XVIII. (To convert the page numbers of Wingfield's Discourse to its page number in Jocelyn R. Wingfield's "Virginia's True Founder", add 298).
C. Wingfield's biography by Jocelyn R. Wingfield: Virginia's True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield and His Times (1993), revised (2007), with an Introduction by Stephen Blackehart, 2007, ISBN 1-4196-6032-2. All page numbers referenced herein refer to the 1993 edition.
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