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| Beverley, Robert |
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(b v´ rl ) (KEY) , 1673–1722, Virginia colonial historian, author of The History and Present State of Virginia (1705). A substantial planter and colonial official, he wrote his book after finding numerous errors in the manuscript of a book on Virginia written by an Englishman. Vigorous, honest, and not without humor, his history was an immediate success; reprinted a number of times, it served to attract immigrants to Virginia. | 1 | | See edition by L. B. Wright (1947, repr. 1968). | 2 |
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