Act prohibiting the desertion of Plantations, 1644 February 17.

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Act prohibiting the desertion of Plantations, 1644 February 17.

The act was passed at a time of uneasy truce between the Native Americans and the white settlers. It proceeded by two months Opechancanough's suprise attack on the outlying plantations which resulted in the deaths of 500 settlers. William Robertson, Clerk of the Virginia Council made this copy of the original 1644 act sometime between 1705 and 1720.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Robertson, William, -1739

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Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses

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