Alexander Spotswood was a British Army officer, explorer and lieutenant governor of Colonial Virginia; he is regarded as one of the most significant historical figures in British North American colonial history.
Charles Bridges, Portrait of Alexander Spottswood, 1736. Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Virginia)
Martin Maingaud, Portrait of George Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, 1724. London, Government Art Collection
Hans Hysing, Portrait of William Byrd II, 1724. Richmond, Virginia Historical Society.
The houses and the blockhouse of the first settlement of Germanna
The Colony of Virginia was an English, later British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.
The Indian massacre of 1622, depicted in a 1628 woodcut
Cover to a history of the Plantation of Virginia between 1612 and 1624, compiled by its planters
Lines showing the legal treaty frontiers between the Virginia Colony and Indian Nations in various years and today's state boundaries. Red: Treaty of 1646. Green: Treaty of Albany (1684). Blue: Treaty of Albany (1722). Orange: Proclamation of 1763. Black: Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774). The area west of this line in present-day Southwest Virginia was ceded by the Cherokee in 1775.
Hanover County Courthouse (c. 1735–1742), with its arcaded front, is typical of a numerous colonial courthouse built in Virginia.
