Virtual Jamestown

The Virtual Jamestown project, hosted by the Virginia Center for Digital History, aims to create an online resource on the history of Jamestown, Virginia in the seventeenth century. The projects is part of e-2007 marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in 1607. Although the site is still under development a lot of information is available. The material currently available includes maps and Images of the region, first hand accounts and letters, and newspapers. There is a section on Labour contracts which currently contains a database of the Bristol Register of Servants sent to Foreign Plantations. This database will, on completion, contain contracts of over 10,000 indentured servants. Other information available includes public records, which includes censuses, state papers and laws. Online access to court records is currently being developed. Timelines, bibliographies of primary and secondary sources and links to subject related web pages are also available from the site. The Virtual Jamestown projects aims to incorporate all this data into a series of database. The site currently has an index and searches can be carried out on some of the individual sections.

Historical theme: Local history | Population | Social history | Legal history
Geographical area: North America
Period: 17th Century | 18th Century
Resource type: Primary sources | dataset | bibliographies

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