Smyth of Nibley papers, 1588-1706 (inclusive), [microform].

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Smyth of Nibley papers, 1588-1706 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers include: assessments for royal aids and benevolences, 1660-1689; documents relating to Berkeley and the "Hundred of Berkeley"; pedigrees of the Berkeley family; acquitances and receipts of the Berkeley family to John Smyth, 1597-1637; receipts of the Berkeley family, 1598-1645; accounts of John Smyth; letters of Berkeley family members to their stewards, 1606-1692; various documents arranged by locale or topic, and personal and business papers of John Smyth, the elder and John Smyth, the younger. The papers are in the Gloucester Public Library, Volumes 1-10 (of 16).

5 reels.

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Yale University Library

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Smyth, John, 1567-1641

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John Smyth (1567-1640), from Nibley in Gloucestershire, England, was one of the original promoters of plantations and settlements in the second Virginia colony in North America. He was the author of "Lives of the Berkeleys". From the guide to the Smyth of Nibley papers, 1613-1674, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) John Smyth of Nibley was a genealogical antiquary. This manuscript was written from 1589 to 1591, while he was at Magdalen College,...

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