[Excerpts and notes from "The Correspondences of the Three William Byrds of Westover, 
Virginia, 1684-1776", ed. by Marion Tinling, 1977]
[excerpted 30 Nov 2007, Mark Murphy]

p. 39
Letter to Warham Horsmanden, 5 Jun 1685.  Byrd I states there was a great flood
about 5 weeks before, washing away fences, topsoil and a mill.  Byrd and neighbors
crops ruined.

p. 41
to Arthur North, 5 Jun 1685.  Byrd states that since the flood, there has been
drought and he won't be making corn or tobacco.

p. 56
spring 1685, Charles II died and was succeeded by his brother James II, a
Roman Catholic.

p. 77
Byrd's sister Mary (1667-1717) was married about Apr 5, 1687 (while Byrd was
in England) to Thomas Guy of Stepney.

p. 90
In 1688 William of Orange and Mary his wife (daug of James II) entered England
and became king and queen, James having fled the country.  William and Mary
were proclaimed sovereigns in Virginia on April 26, 1689.

p. 106
Byrd purchase Westover in 1688 from Theodorick and Richard Bland, 1200 acres.

p. 111 and others
Letters from Byrd 1689 say a lot about Indians killing livestock, some people

1689-90 Byrd refers to "Mr. President Bacon", probably Nathaniel Bacon from
the rebellion.

1691 Byrd mentions problems with bounds of the main Blackwater up to the 
Appomatox Indian towne.
 
p. 186 
Anne, daughter of James II and sister of Queen Mary, became queen of England on
the death of William III in 1702.

p. 188
Virginia, Mr. Bird's report relating to grants of land on the south side of
Black Water Swamp, in Col. Nicholson's letter of 22 Oct 1703.