Among the contemporary writers, John Smith, Works (1884), edited by Edward Arber, is a compilation rather than a history, and in spite of its partisan coloring contains much that is valuable regarding Virginia affairs from 1607 to 1629.  For matters from 1619-1624 we have the sure guide of the London Company’s Journal, in Virginia Historical Society, Collections, new series, VII.  After that time the main dependence, apart from the Calendar of State Papers, is Hening, Statutes at Large of Virginia (13 vols., 1823).  The leading incidents in Virginia connected with Lord Baltimore’s colony of Maryland and the Puritan persecution are set forth by J.H.  Latane, Early Relations of Maryland and Virginia (Johns Hopkins University Studies, XIII., Nos. iii., iv.) Many documents illustrative of this period may be read in Force, Tracts, and Hazard, State Papers; Virginia history is illuminated by many original documents printed in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (11 vols., 1893-1903); and the William and Mary College Quarterly (12 vols., 1892-1903).  The works of Edward D. Neill are also of a documentary nature and of much value.  Those which bear upon Virginia are The Virginia Company (1868), Virginia Carolorum (1886), Virginia Vestusta (1885), and Virginia and Virginiola (1878).  Many tracts are cited in the foot-notes.

MARYLAND

The standard authorities for the history of Maryland are J.V.L.  McMahon, Historical View of the Government of Maryland (1831); John Leeds Bozman, History of Maryland (2 vols., 1837, covering the period of 1634 to 1658); James McSherry, History of Maryland (1849); J.T.  Scharf, History of Maryland (3 vols., 1879); William Hand Browne, History of Maryland (1893), and George and Cecilius Calvert (1893); Edward D. Neill, Founders of Maryland (1876), and Terra Mariae (1867).  Of these Bozman’s work is an invaluable magazine of information, being, in fact, as much a calendar of documents as a continuous narrative.  William Hand Browne’s books show great familiarity with the story of Maryland and its founders, but his treatment of the subject is marked by strong bias and partisanship in favor of Lord Baltimore and his government.  Neill’s books, on the other hand, argue strongly in favor of the Puritan influence on the history of Maryland.  There are many interesting pamphlets relating to Maryland in the series of Johns Hopkins University Studies, such as Edward Ingle, Parish Institutions of Maryland, I., No. vi.; John Hensley Johnson, Old Maryland Manors, I., No. vii.; Lewis W. Wilhelm, Maryland Local Institutions, III., Nos. v., vi., vii.; D.R.  Randall, The Puritan Colony at Annapolis, Maryland, IV., No. vi.; J.H.  Latane, Early Relations of Virginia and Maryland, XIII., Nos. iii., iv., and Bernard C. Steiner, The Beginnings of Maryland.