A Guide to the manuscript "An Account fo the
Present State and Government of Virginia,
1697 Account of the Present State and
Government of Virginia, An, 1697
MS 37.7
A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 37.7
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
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Preferred Citation
"An Account of the Present State and Government of
Virginia", Manuscript MS 37.7, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1937.
Alternative Form
Also available on microfilm
M-1117.
The library has three published versions of the report
entered under:
Hartwell, Henry. Present state of Virginia and the
College.
Henry Hartwell was a member of the Council of Virginia.
James Blair was president of the College of William and Mary.
Edward Chilton, served as attorney general of Virginia.
This report, sent to the Board of Trade by Henry Hartwell,
James Blair and Edward Chilton, discusses contemporary social,
political, economic, and religious conditions in Virginia.