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1.  The Inconveniences that have happened to some persons which have transported themselves from England to Virginia...
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Here is a list of items (with prices) that settlers should take with them as they emigrate to Virginia in the early 1600's.  The most expensive items include food for a year (£20) and a suit of armor (17 shillings)...!

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Source: Waterhouse, Edward. A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia. With a Relation Barbarous Massacre in the Time of Peace and League...London, 1635.
     
  2. A direction for choice of servants.  The form of binding a servant.
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A precursor to modern boiler plate contracts ?  

White, Father Andrew. A Relation of Maryland: Together, with a Map of the Country, the Conditions of the Plantation, His Majesties Charter to the Lord Baltemore, Translated into English. New York: J. Sabin. 1865. 56 pp.
     
    3. "If once they can be made to settle down, they are ours." Jesuit Paul le Jeune engages in a bit of back peddling more associated with speech than with a written document on page 147 of Relation of What Occurred in New France in the Year 1637 from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Volume 11..
 
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