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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Alexander Whitaker (1585–1617)

Whitaker, Alexander. An Episcopal clergyman and author; born in England, 1588; died in Virginia in 1617. He baptized Pocahontas, and officiated at her wedding. He wrote ‘Good Newes from Virginia,’ one of the first books written in the colonies.