William Stith

William Stith

William Stith (1707-1755) was an early American historian. He is the author of one of the earliest histories of Virginia, "The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: being an Essay towards a General History of this Colony", published in Williamsburg by William Parks in 1747. [cite web
url=http://research.history.org/JDRLibrary/Special_Collections/Treasures/treasureDiscovery.cfm
title=Discovery: "Stith History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia"
publisher=The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
date=2008
accessdate=2008-06-01] [citation
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aC0dAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22william+stith%22&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
title=Old Virginia and Her Neighbours
pages= [http://books.google.com/books?id=aC0dAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=%22william+stith%22&source=web&ots=wDYC1UeXX_&sig=EQEMbbjEWe_8N4eQ-CcoXKobIIg&hl=en 255-256]
last=Fiske
first= John
publisher=Houghton, Mifflin and Company
date=1897]

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url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wOQ0AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22william+stith%22&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
title=The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
last=Stith
first=William
publisher=Reprinted for Joseph Sabin
date=1865

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NAME= Stith, William
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Historian
DATE OF BIRTH=1707
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DATE OF DEATH=1755
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