The Jamestowne Society was founded by George Craghead Gregory in 1936 for descendants of stockholders in the London Company and in the Virginia Company and the descendants of those who owned land or who had domiciles in Jamestown or on Jamestown Island prior to the year 1700. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:
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Jamestowne Society Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Papers of the Jamestowne Society. Includes correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of meetings, lists of seventeenth century inhabitants of Jamestown, and lists of members. The collection also contains papers of George Craghead Gregory, founder of the Jamestowne Society. There is biographical material about Gregory as well as his correspondence; drafts of articles written by him about Jamestown; photographs and negatives of Jamestown buildings and maps; plats of lots around Jamestown; blueprints of maps of Jamestown; copies of seventeenth and eighteenth century maps of Jamestown; twentieth century maps of Jamestown; and navigation charts of the James River near Jamestown. There are two works compiled by Gregory. The first is James City & Island in three volumes which concerns early land patents near Jamestown and the site of the first fort. The second is Early Virginians, 1607-1704.
Correspondence, notices, minutes and other papers, 1930-1966. Includes correspondence of Society Gov. Edward Meeks Gregory, Deputy Governor Charles Marshall, Governors J. Ambler Johnston, Mrs. Catesby Willis Stewart, Richard B. Tucker, Edwin Cox, and Parke Rouse.
Lists of 17th century inhabitants of Jamestwon and Jamestown Society membership lists with corresponding ancesor eligibility. Includes list of the founders and first officers.
Biographical material about and misc. correspondence of George C. Gregory, founder of the society.
Misc. material re the Jamestown Society, chiefly newspaper clippings of meetings, election of officers, obituaries of members, etc.
Misc. brochures, clippings, postcards re Jamestown, many relating to 1957 celebration
Articles about Jamestown by Gregory and Clarence P. Denman.
Misc. photographs and photographic negatives of Jamestown buildings and maps from primary amd secondary sources
Pencil and ink drawings of lots in and around Jamestown by George C. Gregory
20th century blueprint maps of Jamestown showing locations of early buildings and property lots.
Copies of 17th and 18th century maps of Jamestown
20th century blueprint maps of Jamestown showing locations of early buildings and property lots.
Drawings of the Fort of Jamestown.
Maps of Jamestown architectural remains down by the Historic American Building Survey.
Jamestown Island Water depth and navigational charts.
Research material gathered by George C. Gregory to use in preparation of his works re Jamestown. Notes from primary and secondary sources, photostats of documents, etc.
Misc. materials, probably collected by Gregory.
Gregory's compiled works.