Documents published and unpublished, with appendices, including one on maps of New England 1606-1610, and one (by Philip L. Barbour) on an early vocabulary of an Algonkian language.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS, PERMISSIONS, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER I GABRIEL ARCHER'S ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD'S VOYAGE TO 'NORTH VIRGINIA' IN 1602, CHAPTER II JOHN BRERETON, A BRIEFE AND TRUE RELATION . . . 1602, CHAPTER III CONTEMPORARY CORRESPONDENCE ON THE 1602 VOYAGE, CHAPTER IV MARTIN PRING'S VOYAGE TO 'NORTH VIRGINIA' IN 1603, CHAPTER V PRELUDES TO THE WAYMOUTH VOYAGE OF 1605, CHAPTER VI JAMES ROSIER, A TRUE RELATION. 1605, CHAPTER VII ABORTIVE NORTH VIRGINIA PROJECTS, 1605-1607, CHAPTER VIII THE NORTH VIRGINIA VOYAGES UNDER THE 1606 VIRGINIA COMPANY CHARTER: GENERAL ACCOUNTS, CHAPTER IX THE FIRST EXPEDITION TO NORTH VIRGINIA UNDER THE 1606 CHARTER: THE FATE OF THE RICHARD, HENRY CHALLONS CAPTAIN, CHAPTER X THE PRELIMINARIES TO THE 1607 VOYAGE, CHAPTER XI THE DAVIES JOURNAL OF THE 1607 NORTH VIRGINIA VOYAGE, CHAPTER XII INCIDENTAL DOCUMENTS ON THE 1607-1608 VOYAGES, CHAPTER XIII EVIDENCE ON NEW ENGLAND FROM INDIAN SOURCES, 1605-1614, APPENDIX I JAMES ROSIER'S LIST OF INDIAN (EASTERN ABENAKI) WORDS. ANALYSED BY PHILIP L. BARBOUR, APPENDIX II DISPUTED POINTS OF THE VOYAGES OF 1602-1608, APPENDIX III MAPS OF NEW ENGLAND OF THE 1606-1610 PERIOD, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX BY ALISON QUINN