Selected Bibliography
Primary sources
Percy, George. A Trewe Relacyon. Written about 1625, for the Earl of Northumberland. First printed as "A Trewe Relacyon: Virginia from 1609 to 1612," in Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1922): 259–282, from a copy of the manuscript obtained for the Virginia State Library. archive.org: tylersquarterlyh03tyle_0.
Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1624. Book IV consulted in Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, below.
[Smith, John, and others.] The Proceedings of the English Colonies in Virginia since their first beginning from England in the yeare of our Lord 1606, till this present 1612. Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1612. Consulted in Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, below.
De La Warr, Thomas West, Lord. The Relation. 1611. Consulted as "The Relation of the Lord De-La-Ware, 1611," in Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, below.
Molina, Diego de. Letter to the Spanish ambassador in London, dated from Virginia, May 28 (Spanish reckoning), 1613. Consulted in English translation as "Letter of Don Diego de Molina, 1613," in Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, below.
Spelman, Henry. Relation of Virginia. Written about 1613. Edited by James F. Hunnewell. London: printed for Jas. F. Hunnewell at the Chiswick Press, 1872. Consulted in the facsimile of the 1872 edition in the American Journeys collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society, document AJ-136.
Hamor, Ralph. A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia. London: John Beale for William Welby, 1615. With letters of Sir Thomas Dale (June 18, 1614), Alexander Whitaker and John Rolfe. archive.org: truediscourseofp00hamo_0.
Rolfe, John. Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, undated [1614]. First printed in Hamor, A True Discourse, above, from which it is quoted. Reprinted as "Letter of John Rolfe, 1614," in Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, below.
Virginia General Assembly. "The Tragical Relation of the Virginia Assembly, 1624." The Assembly's answer to a declaration of the state of the colony during the twelve years of Sir Thomas Smith's government. Consulted in Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, below.
Collected editions
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606–1625. Original Narratives of Early American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. archive.org: narrativesofearl00tyle_0.
Tyler, Lyon G., ed. Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. 3. Richmond, Va.: Richmond Press, 1922. archive.org: tylersquarterlyh03tyle_0.
Cited through Tyler's notes
A Breife Declaration, on the colony's food and its dead at De La Warr's departure, cited by Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, p. 212, note 1.
Brown, First Republic, on Cole, Kitchins and Molina's guard, cited by Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia, p. 304, note 1.
Online resources
American Journeys. Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Library and Archives. americanjourneys.org (now archived). Facsimile of Spelman's Relation of Virginia, document AJ-136.