![]() This a resource rich in historical treasures. ![]() The history of Governor Spotswood’s 1716 Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition across the Blue Ridge Mountains a notice of the French Huguenot family who emigrated from Ireland to Virginia accounts of the Indian princess Pocahontas and Captain John Smith and many other names of interest to the students of history are discussed in this journal. ![]() The material contained within these volumes includes items relevant to the history of Virginia, poetical pieces and much more, including tributes to, and notices of, notable Virginians, such as Archibald Alexander, Rice’s dear friend William Henry Foote, author of the Sketches of Virginia, in two volumes Samuel Davies, the great pioneer missionary to Virginia and Francis Makemie, “the father of the Presbyterian church in Virginia ” and others. All of these volumes, from 1848 to 1853, are now available to read on Log College Press. The journal which he edited began as The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser, and later was known as The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book and The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion. And so he did, as its librarian and as the editor of its journal. ![]() It was largely attributable to the efforts of John Holt Rice that the Virginia Historical Society was founded, but after his death, it fell to William Maxwell, Rice’s biographer, to “resurrect” the institution.
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