Description: An essential source for the study of the Atlantic world and early colonial period, the Ferrar Papers (1590-1790) from Magdalene College, Cambridge, document:
- the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624;
- the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas;
- trade between Britain and America;
- the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia;
- tensions amongst the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans.
Coverage: 1590-1790