THE
PRESENT STATE
OF
VIRGINIA.

GIVING

A particular and short Account of the Indian, English, and Negroe Inhabitants of that Colony.

Shewing their Religion, Manners, Government, Trade, Way of Living, &c. with a Description of the Country.

From whence is inferred a short VIEW of

Maryland and North Carolina.

To which are added,

Schemes and Propositions for the better Promotion of Learning, Religion, Inventions, Manufactures, and Trade in Virginia, and the other Plantations.

For the Information of the Curious, and for the Service of such as are engaged in the Propagation of the Gospel and Advancement of Learning, and for the Use of all Persons concerned in the

Virginia Trade and Plantation.

Gen. ix. 27.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the Tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his Servant.

By HUGH JONES, A. M.

Chaplain to the Honourable Assembly, and lately Minister of James-Town, &c. in Virginia.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Clarke, at the Bible under the Royal-Exchange. MDCCXXIV.