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John Ferrar: a half-hidden propagandist for Virginia

ABSTRACT John Ferrar was a more prolific author than is generally recognized. His extensive writings, sometimes pseudonymous, often anonymous, are here identified. He eagerly desired the prosperity of Virginia, but no claim is made for him as the possessor of a trained intellect promoting either the triumph of Anglicanism or the general spread of agricultural knowledge. That he provided Hartlib with specific information does not make him responsible for the form in which Hartlib eventually published it.