Virginia as the first Creation (Oldmixon; Moll, cart., The British empire in America, 1708)
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Queen Elizabeth was her self so well pleas'd with the Account these Adventurers gave of the Country, that she honor'd it with the Name of Virginia, either because it was first discover'd in her Reign, a Virgin Queen; or, as the Virginians will have it, because it still seem'd to retain the Virgin Purity and Plenty of the first Creation, and the People their Primitive Innocence.
Oldmixon, John; Moll, Herman, cart., The British empire in America, containing the history of the discovery, settlement, progress and present state of all the British colonies, on the continent and islands of America, with curious maps of the serval places, done from the newest surveys, London: Printed for John Nicholson ..., Benjamin Tooke ..., and Richard Parker and Ralph Smith ..., 1708, pp. 211-212.
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