Virginia as the first Creation (Stith, The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia, 1747)

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[...] the Queen herself was pleased to name the Country Virginia, in Memory of it's having been first found out in the Reign of a Virgin Queen. Or as some have been pleased to gloss and interpret it, because it still seemed to retain the Virgin Purity and Plenty of the first Creation, and the People their primitive Innocency of Life and Manners. [...]

Stith, William, The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia: being an essay towards a general history of this colony, Williamsburg [Va.]: Printed by William Parks, 1747, p. 11.

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