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The author traces settlement and social development in colonial Virginia, examining motivations for migration, land and labor dynamics, and the rise and decline of a prosperous yeoman class. He outlines systems of indentured servitude and wage labor, the economics of tobacco cultivation, and how the growing reliance on enslaved labor reshaped property patterns, politics, and social hierarchy. Chapters analyze relations with indigenous peoples, trade networks, the Restoration period, and the transformation of smallholders into slaveholders or impoverished migrants. The narrative combines economic, political, and social perspectives to show how labor regimes and world markets determined the colony's institutions and class structure.

A
Alexander Richards150
Arthur Upshot2020
Antho. West700
Ann Simkins1000
Arthur Donas100
Arnoll Harrison630
Alex. Harrison400
Alex. Bagwell413
Anne Chase200
Arthur Frame500
Alexdr West550
Abraham Lambedson100
Alex Benstone270
Anne Blake Widdo.120
Anne Bruxe180
Ar. Arcade Welburn1854
———
9187
B
Burnell Niblett100
Majr. Bennit Scarbrough521
———
621
C
Corneline Hermon321
Christo Stokly200
Charles Scarbrough1000
Charles Leatherbeny1100
Charles Bally959-1/2
Charles Pywell150
Churchhil Darby125
Charles Evill550
Charles Champison270
Christo Hodey500
Cornelius Lofton166
Charles Stockley170
Charles Taylor580
Catherine Gland217
———
6312-1/2
D
Dorman Derby225
Daniell Derby Senr.300
Dorothy Littlehouse250
David Watson200
Delight Shield300
Daniel Derby Junr.125
Daniel Harwood100
Dennis Mores200
Daniel Gore3976
———
5676
E
Coll Edmd Scarbrough2000
Edwd Hitchins170
Edwd Turner750
Edwd Killam720
Edmd Allin200
Edwd Bagwell for Coll Wm. Custis200
Edmd. Jones800
Elizb. Tinley200
Edwd Taylor300
Edmd Tatham200
Edmd Bally800
Edmd Ayres1000
Edwd. Miles413
Elizb. Mellchop210
Edwd. Bell101
Edwd. More500
Edwd. Gunter600
Edwd Brotherton600
Elias Blake430
Edwd Robins782
Edwd Bally300
Elias Taylor1500
Elizb. Wharton200
Mrs. Elizb Scarbrough4205
———
17181
F
Mr. Francis Mackenny5109
Francis Robts.200
Francis Wainhouse700
Francis Crofton200
Francis Young100
Finley MackWm100
Francis Ayres300
Francis Jester200
Francis Benstone400
Francis Wharton600
———
7909
G
Geo. Anthony100
Geo. Hastup300
Coll Geo Nicho Halk2700
Capt. Geo Parker2609
Gervis Baggally700
Garrat Hictlims170
Geo Parker Sco. Side1200
Griffin Savage650
Geo Middleton Senr.588
Geo Trevit400
Geo. Pounce400
Geo Middleton Junr.150
Geo Johnson200
Capt. Geo Hope900
———
11067
H
Henry Armtrading175
Henry Chance445
Henry Selman180
Henry Ubankes400
Henry Lurton363
Henry Stokes208
Henry Custis774
Henry Bagwell412
Henry Read350
Henry Ayres250
Hill Drummond483
Henry Toules300
Henry Hickman135
Henry Gibbins250
Henry Truett240
———
4965
J
John Tounson200
Joseph Stokley664
Jno. Read200
Jno. Blake310
Joseph Ames375
Joseph Clark200
Jno. Fisher200
James Gray900
Jno. Huffington240
Jno. Legatt300
James Lary100
James Longoe200
Jno. Merrey350
Jno Milloy500
Jno. Pratt50
Jno. Revell1450
Jno Road110
Jno. Rowles650
Jno. Savage Senr350
Jno Charles480
Jno Willis Senr430
Jno Willis Junr350
James Fairfax900
Joseph Milby830
John West Junr500
Jno Jenkins400
Jonathan James150
John Rodgers100
Jno Collins100
Jno Sincocke125
Jno Metcalfe, Isaac Metcalfe and Samll. Metcalfe600
Joseph Touser200
Jno Stanton200
Jno Bally1000
———
13715
Jno Melson180
Jno Bernes Senr657
Jno Littletone200
John Nock300
Jno Killy100
Jacob Morris200
Jno Morris640
Jona. Aylworth200
James Davis1000
Jno Parkes200
Jno Evans200
Jno Hull100
Jno Blocksom700
Jno Abbott1170
Jno Arew234
Jno Grey116
Jno Baker400
Jno Wharton150
James Taylor100
Jno Glading207
Jno Loftland167
James Smith756
Majr Jno Robins2700
Jno Collins for Asban1666
James Walker525
Jno Whelton90
Jno Marshall1666
Jona Owen230
Jacob Wagaman150
Capt John Broadhurst1100
Jno Dyer200
Mr. John Watts2450
Jno Booth300
John Bradford364
Ingold Cobb150
Jno Griffin150
Jno Mitchell400
John Parker970
James Alexander1250
Jno Burocke200
James Sterferar50
Jno Perry217
Jno Drummond1550
Jno Carter on Foxs Island203
Jno Warington100
Jno Bagwell465
Jno Wise Senr800
Jno Wise Junr400
Jno Dix500
Isaac Dix500
Jno Hickman454
Jno Onians200
Coll Jno Custis Esqr5950
John Coslin50
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46692
M
Michaell Recetts300
Mrs. Mattilda West3600
Marke Evell250
Mary Wright200
———
4350
N
Nicholas Mellchops285
Nathaniel, Williams64
Nathaniell Rattcliff300
———
649
O
Owen Collonell500
Overton Mackwilliams200
Obedience Pettman115
———
815
P
Peter Major113
Philip Parker150
Peter Rogers167
Perry Leatherbury1750
Peter Turlington79
Peter Ease250
Philip Fisher433
Peter Chawell250
———
3192
R
Robt. Bell650
Richd Bally Senr.2100
Richd Bally Junr180
Richd Garrison468
Roules Major157
Rouland Savage Senr950
Robt. Taylor95
Richd. Rodgers450
Richd Killam1900
Robt. Wattson425
Richd Jones500
Robt. Hutchinson934
Reynold Badger150
Robt. West400
Richd Cuttler450
Robt. Cole125
Richd Drummond600
Robt. Stocomb300
Robt Norton1050
Richd Grindall350
Roger Hickman135
Robt Lewis200
Roger Abbott450
Richard Hill350
Ralph Justice1050
Richd Hinman1800
Robt Davis384
Ragnall Aryes300
Roger Miles200
Richd Bundike773
Richd Kittson1300
Robt. Bally100
Richd Starlin150
Richd Flowers200
Richd Price100
Robt. Pitts2300
Robt Adkins200
Rebeckha Benstone270
Richd Hillayres300
———
22816
S
Samuell Benstone300
Sarah Beach300
Sillvanus Cole250
Symon Sosque325
South Littleton Widdo2870
Stephen Woltham244
Steph. Warrington400
Symon Mitchell300
Stephen Drummond300
Selby Harrison50
Sollomon Evell125
Samll Young50
Sarah Reyley150
Sebastian Dellistations Senr500
Sebastian Dellistations Junr400
Skinner Wollope2485
Samll. Sandford3250
Sebastian Silverthorn150
Symon Smith200
Sarah Coe900
Samll Taylor1232
Sarah Evins150
Sebastian Croper600
Samuell Jester200
———
15731
T
Tho Burton600
Tho Bud500
Tho Boules300
Tho Clark100
Tho Middleton350
Tho Stringer600
Tho Haule500
Tho Taylor100
Tho Fockes300
Tho Bagwell465
Madm Tabitha Hill3600
Tho Rose7
Tho Webb50
Tho Savage450
Tho Jones100
Tho Scott100
Tho Reyley225
Tho Ternall150
Tho Simpson520
Tho Coper711
Tho Miles202
Thomas Bonwell300
Tho Bell Senr.100
The Bell Junr100
Tho Touson Kiquotan800
Tho Stockley363
Tho Jester100
Tho Smith300
Thomas Crippin648
Tho Wilkinson50
Tho Jenkinson374
Tho Moore166
Tho Allen700
Tho Smith Savannah200
Tho Perry232
Tho Tonnson400
Tho Smith Gingateague693
Lieut Coll Robinson600
———
15956
W
Wm. Robins200
Wm Patterson200
Wm Bevens400
Wm Matthews400
Wm Shepherd200
Wm Whett400
Winfred Woodland333
Wm Andrews300
Wm Custis1500
Wm Darby83
Wm Fletcher200
Wm Killam450
Wm Lingoe300
Wm Major130
Wm Meeres150
Wm Mack Sear800
Wm Savage150
Wm Waite110
Wm Sill200
Wm Waite Junr600
Wm Bradford3500
Wm Rogers200
Wm Wise400
Wm Finey800
Wm Consalvins100
Wm Phillips200
Wm Parker362
Wm Cole375
Wm Merill150
Wm Johnson150
Wm Lewis150
Walter Hayes130
Wm Chance450
Wm Milby250
Wm Nicholson600
Wm Burton500
Wm Willett842
Wm Hudson270
Wm Lewis300
Wm Young144
Wm Liechfield154
Wm Bunting150
Wm Nock Junr400
Wm Lucas300
Mary Mellechop498
Wm Daniell200
Wm Silverthorn160
Wm Garman475
Wm White600
Wm Broadwater500
Wm Taylor100
Wm Williamson600
Wm Brittingham538
Wm. Benstone Jun.270
Wm Dickson for Mr. Littleton1050
Wm Waite Senr225
Wm Taylor1400
———
24599
196899-1/2
Added to this Rent Roll the following Lands of which the Quit Rents may possibly be recovered tho the Owners live out of the Country Viz.
Jonas Jackson500
Robt. Andrews500
Joseph Morris200
Robt. Meros200
Hillory Stringer950
Tho Fisher133
Jno Fisher133
Timo Coe4100
David Hagard130
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6846
An Account of what Land in Accomack County the owners whereof are not dwellers.
Tho Preson of Northampton200
Geo Corbin Ditto150
Joshua Fichett Ditto200
Alexdr Merey Maryld200
Tho Dent500
Mr. Wm Kendalls orphans of Northampton County2850
Mr Hancock Lee dividing Creeks4050
Richd Watters in Maryland1057
Francis Lailor Northamp100
Obedience Johnson Qtrs300
Henry Smith at the Southerd1000
Grattiance Michell North200
Matt. Tyson Southerd300
Teagle Woltham Maryld200
Peter Waltham New Engld200
Jno Waltham Maryld200
———
11707
Jno Wise Sheriff

The Rent Roll of Northampton County for the Year of our Lord God 1704

A
Andrews Robt.300
Andrews Andrew100
Addison John350
Abdell Tho125
Abdell Jno200
Abdell Wm125
Alligood John300
Angell James100
Alligood Henry100
B
Bullock Geo100
Boner Geo150
Brown Tho1862
Benthall Joseph Senr793
Benthall Joseph Junr150
Branson Francis100
Bateson200
Billot Jno400
Bell Geo400
Billott Wm100
Brewer Jno50
Blackson Jno100
Brooks Jeane100
Beadwine Jno200
Berthall Danll258
Baker John400
Brickhouse Geo2100
C
Cob Samll130
Coape Wm200
Custis Jno Coll3400
Collier Bartho.150
Carpenter Charles240
Cox Jno500
Church Samll143
Cleg Jno. Senr204
Clog Henry204
Carvy Richd100
Cowdry Josiah167
Cormeck Mich100
Clerk Jno100
Corban Geo250
Clerk Geo833
Caple Nath100
Callinett Jno100
Crew John300
Costin Francis275
Custis Majr John3250
Custis Hancock50
Chick Tho.100
D
Downing Jno.70
Dewy Geo300
Dewy Jacob100
Delby Margery450
Dowty Rowland150
Dunton John170
Dunton Tho400
Dowman John100
Dullock John100
Denton Tho400
Dunton Tho Junr120
Dunton Wm420
Dunton Benj220
Duparks Tho90
Davis Jno850
Dunton Joseph120
Dixon Michaell460
E
Eshon Jno600
Evans John200
Edmunds David500
Evans Tho300
Esdoll Geo100
Eyres Tho1133
Eyres Nich325
Eyres Capt Jno774
Eyres Anne Wido.733
Esdoll Edwd.100
F
Fisher John637-1/2
Francisco Dan150
Fisher Tho637-1/2
Foster Robt.150
Fabin Paul60
Frost Tho100
Frank Jno500
Floyd Charles378
Freshwater Geo200
Frizell Geo140
Freshwater Wm200
Fitchett Joshua100
Floyd Berry & Matthew555
G
Gogni David150
Gill Robt.200
Gascoyne Robt.125
Gascoyne Wm525
Greene Jno Senr2200
Giddens Tho227
Grice Peter200
Godwin Devorix600
Goffogan Tho100
Guelding Charles200
Griffith Jerimiah345
Griffith Benja200
H
Hill Francis100
Henderson John250
Haggaman Isaac750
Harmonson Jno1600
Harmonson Henry1250
Hanby Charles25
Hanby Richd75
Hanby Danll50
Hanby John150
Harmonson Capt Wm308
Harmonson Geo1586
Harmonson Tho400
Hawkins Jno Senr66
Hawkins Jno Junr66
Hawkins Gideon66
Hunto Groton485
Hunt John440
Hunt Tho290
Hall Francis Widdo340
J
Johnson John Senr250
Johnson John Junr100
Johnson Jacob350
Isaacs John Jnr100
Joynes Major150
James Joan Widdo250
Johnson Obedience Capt400
Johnson Tho Junr75
Johnson Thomas Senr400
Jackson Jonah & John625
Joynes Edmd200
Joynes Edwd200
Johnson Jeptha Senr50
Jacob Phillip Senr350
Johnson Jepha Junr200
Johnson Obedience & Jepha Sen250
Johnson Edmd400
Jacob Richd200
Jacob Abraham50
K
Kendall Wm2410
Knight John100
L
Lawrence John120
Lailler Luke100
Lucas Tho100
Lewis Robt100
Littleton Susannah Wido4050
Luke John400
M
Marshall Geo250
Farshall Jno250
Maddox Tho1500
Michaell Yeardly400
Matthews John275
Major John390
Map John50
Moore Matthew175
Mackmellion Tho300
More Gilbert225
Morraine John119-1/2
More Jno545
More Eliner175
N
Nicholson Wm600
Nottingham Wm150
Nottingham Joseph150
Nottingham Richd350
Nottingham Benja300
Nelson John100
O
Only Clement200
Odear John100
P
Parramore Tho400
Preson Tho610
Powell Frances Widdo1225
Palmer Samll1562
Pyke Henry150
Powell John636-1/3
Pittett Tho300
Pittet Justian200
Pittett John275
Powell Samll200
Paine Daniell150
Piggott Ralph1368
R
Read Thomas150
Rascow Arthur100
Ronan Wm150
Roberts Jno200
Richards Lettis150
Robins Jno Majr1180
Robins Littleton1000
Rabishaw Wm55
Roberts Obedience260
Robinson Benjamin250
S
Shepherd Jno200
Smith Joseph250
Smith Samll150
Smith Jno200
Savage Tho450
Smith Tho400
Smith Abrah300
Seady Antho120
Sott Widdo750
Smith Richd minor300
Scot Geo100
Smith Richd99
Scot Jno100
Scott Henry800
Scot David300
Smith Peter450
Sanders Richd100
Smaro John800
Shepherd Tho140
Sanders Eustick100
Sanderson John636
Savidge John410
Stringer Hillary1250
Savidge Capt Tho1600
Savidge Elkington750
Scot Wm Senr153
Straton Benja745
Smith Geo133
Stockley Jno Senr370
Shepheard Widdo830
Seamore John200
T
Tilney John350
Tryfort Barth147
Teague Simeon100
Turner Richd50
Teague Tho200
Tankard Wm450
Tanner Paul148
W
Webb Henry100
Wills Thorn300
White John400
Wilson Tho250
Westerhouse Adryan Senr200
Walker John300
Ward Tho120
Walter John400
Waterfield Wm200
Warren John525
Warren Argoll350
Widgeon Robt100
Wilkins Jno150
Webb Edwd200
Wilcock Jno200
Warren James50
Waterson Wm855
Warren Robt.190
Water Lieut-Coll Wm700
Webb Charles133-1/4
Willett Wms2650
Waterson Richd150
Wilkins Argoll150
Walter Elizb Widdo100
Warren Joseph50
———
99671
Lands not paid for vizt
Gleab formerly Capt Foxcrofts1500
John Majr at Occahannock200
Hogbin not being in Virginia100
Tho Smith300
Tho Marshall orphan75
Jno Rews not in Virginia100
———
2275
The total on the other side is99671 acres
Added to it ye Glebe land1500
———
101171 acres

The preceding Sheets are true copys of the Rentrolls for the year 1704 given in and accounted for by the several Sherifs in April 1705 and sworne to before his Excellcy according to which they made up their accounts of the Quitrents with

Will Robertson Clerk.


INDEX


INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  • Accomac,
  • Allen, Arthur,
    • six tithables, 57.
  • Allen, William,
    • Burgess in 1629, 73.
  • Allerton, Isaac,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Ambrose, Robert,
    • deals in servants, 49.
  • Anbury, Major,
    • describes Virginia upper class, 158.
  • Andros, Sir Edmund, 29; 35; 52;
    • hesitates to deprive wealthy of land holdings, 143-144.
  • Archer, George,
    • deals in servants, 49;
    • extensive landowner, 79.
  • Armetrading, Henry, 79.
  • Artisans,
    • became planters in Virginia, 27;
    • called for in broadside of 1610, 28;
    • on the plantations, 156-157.
  • Ashton, Peter,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Austin, James,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Avery, Richard,
    • his cattle, 101;
    • inventory of, 106.
  • Bacon Nathaniel, Sr., 109; 110.
  • Bacon, Nathaniel, Jr.,
    • describes poverty in Virginia, 91;
    • rebellion of and Navigation Acts, 92-93;
    • says peoples hoped in Burgesses, 109; 113.
  • Baker, John,
    • buys Button's Ridge, 49.
  • Baldwin, William,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Ballard, Thomas, 109.
  • Ball, William,
    • has 22 slaves.
  • Baltic,
    • English trade of, 8;
    • Denmark controls entrance to, 9;
    • wars endanger trade to, 9;
    • cheap labor of, 16; 17;
    • tobacco trade to, 118-119;
    • trade to injured by wars, 131, 148.
  • Banister, John,
    • has 88 slaves, 158.
  • Barbadoes,
    • complain of Navigation Acts, 94.
  • Barnett, Thomas,
    • servant, Burgess in 1629, 74.
  • Bassett, William,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Beer, George Lewis,
    • defends Navigation Acts, 86-87;
    • says trade restrictions did not cause Bacon's Rebellion, 92;
    • statement of concerning county grievances, 93;
    • denies that serious opposition existed to Navigation Acts, 93-94.
  • Bell, Richard,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Bennett, Richard,
    • estate of described, 108.
  • Bennett, Samuel,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Berkeley, John,
    • conducts iron works in Virginia, 18.
  • Berkeley, Lord John, 90.
  • Berkeley, Sir William,
    • describes servants, 34;
    • describes early mortality among servants, 39;
    • estimates servants at 6,000 in 1671, 41;
    • instructed to prohibit foreign trade, 69;
    • permits foreign trade during Civil War, 69;
    • calls Virginia land of opportunity, 75;
    • proclaims Charles II, 84, 111; 89;
    • describes poverty of Virginia, 90, 91, 92, 93;
    • controls Assembly, 94;
    • goes to England to combat Navigation Acts, 94-95;
    • plans to establish manufactures, 95;
    • denounces Navigation Acts, 95-96; 98;
    • secures body guard, 111;
    • elected Governor prior to Restoration, 112;
    • fears King's resentment, 113;
    • small planters turn against in Bacon's Rebellion, 113;
    • estimates slaves at 2,000 in 1670, 124; 125; 160.
  • Beverley, Robert, Sr.,
    • extensive dealer in servants, 48, 109; 113.
  • Beverley, Robert, Jr., 61;
    • imports slaves, 130;
    • describes pride of poor whites, 155.
  • Bibbie, Edmund,
    • deals in servants, 49.
  • Binns, Thomas,
    • eight tithables, 57.
  • Bishop, John,
    • Burgess and landowner, 78.
  • Blackstone, John,
    • patents land, 74.
  • Bland, John,
    • remonstrates against Navigation Acts, 88-89; 93.
  • Blair, Rev. John,
    • asks funds for college, 50, 136.
  • Blewit, Capt.,
    • sets up iron works in Virginia, dies, 181.
  • Board of Trade,
    • arrears of quit rents reported to, 51;
    • Nicholson writes to concerning rent roll, 52;
    • says servants not slaves, 60;
    • Berkeley protests to, 95, 119;
    • asks reasons for emigration of Virginia whites, 140;
    • seeks to limit size of land grants, 143;
    • again alarmed at emigration from Virginia, 145, 147, 157.
  • Bolling, Mrs. Mary,
    • has 51 slaves, 158.
  • Brent, Giles,
  • Bridger, Joseph,
    • deals in servants, 48; 109.
  • Briggs, Gray,
    • has 43 slaves, 158.
  • British Empire,
    • beginnings of misunderstood, 14;
    • begun, 19;
    • important rôle of tobacco in, 27.
  • Broadnat, John, 128.
  • Broadside,
    • in 1610 calls for settlers for Virginia, 28.
  • Browne, Robert,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Browne, William,
    • nine tithables, 57.
  • Bruce, Philip Alexander,
    • describes small planters, 54.
  • Brunswick,
    • land patents in small, 145.
  • Bullock, William,
    • denies that servants are slaves, 60.
  • Burgesses, 54,
    • petition King, 65;
    • complain of high freight rates, 72;
    • freedmen among, 73-75;
    • Navigation Acts and, 94-95;
    • represent interest of small planters, 109;
    • defy the king, 110;
    • petition of, 110;
    • rule Virginia, 1652-1660, 112;
    • growing influence of, 109.
  • Burwell, Francis,
    • patents land in James City, 77.
  • Burwell, John,
    • has 42 slaves, 158.
  • Burwell, Lewis,
    • deals in servants, 48; 109.
  • Burcher, William,
    • patents land, 79.
  • Bushood, John,
    • sells land, 49.
  • Butt, Thomas,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Button, Robert,
    • receives estate, 49.
  • Button, Thomas,
    • owner of Button's Ridge, 49.
  • Byrd, William I,
    • says rent rolls inaccurate, 52; 109;
    • uses slaves, 130.
  • Byrd, William II,
    • gives reasons for emigration to Carolina, 146.
  • Carter, John, 109.
  • Carter, Robert,
    • has 126 slaves, 153.
  • Carleill, Capt. Christopher,
    • urges trade with America, 11.
  • Carolina,
  • Cattle,
    • plentiful in Virginia, 101.
  • Chambers, William,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Chandler, John,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Charles I,
    • considers smoking harmful, 26;
    • tries to limit tobacco planting in Virginia, 27;
    • tries to limit English tobacco crop, 63;
    • limits price of tobacco, 65;
    • regulates tobacco trade, 67-69; 70;
    • defied by Assembly, 110; 111.
  • Charles II, 33;
    • proclaimed in Virginia, 84; 111; 93; 96;
    • not restored in Virginia before Restoration in England, 112;
    • tyranny of, 114.
  • Charles City,
    • plantations small, 53; 54;
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79; 81.
  • Chastellux,
    • describes poor whites of Virginia, 152;
    • notes indolence of poor whites, 155.
  • Chew, Larkin,
    • dealer in Spotsylvania land, 154.
  • Claiborne, William,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Clayton, Thomas, 80.
  • Clergy,
    • many plant tobacco, 28.
  • Clothing,
    • want of felt in Virginia, 103.
  • Cloyse, Pettyplace,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Cole, Edward,
    • patents land in James City, 77.
  • Colonial expansion,
    • sought as remedy for British economic dependence, 10;
    • urged by economists, 11; 12; 13.
  • Colonial system, 68;
    • imperfectly enforced prior to 1660, 67-69; 85-86;
    • embodied in Navigation Acts, 85;
    • colonies to supplement England, 86;
    • workings of at end of 17th century, 120;
    • British conception of, 136.
  • Commerce,
    • of England with Baltic, 8;
    • principles of long known, 11;
    • of England with Europe and East, 12;
    • of England with France declines, 13;
    • affords key to history, 22;
    • in reëxported tobacco, 70;
    • in tobacco revives after 1683, 114-115;
    • in reëxported tobacco, 116-120;
    • importance of in tobacco for England, 119, 122.
  • Commonwealth,
    • tobacco high under, 66;
    • Virginians trade abroad under, 69; 98;
    • attitude of Virginia under, 110-11.
  • Constable, John,
    • trades illegally, 69.
  • Cooke, John,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Cornell, Samuel,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Council, 65;
    • complains of high freight rates, 72; 90;
    • describes poverty in Virginia, 91;
    • says Virginia ready to revolt to Dutch, 96; 109; 110;
    • members of hold land illegally, 143;
    • gives reasons for immigration out of Virginia, 145;
    • describes misery in Virginia, 150;
    • declining influence of, 159.
  • Creighton, Henry,
    • sells 100 acres, 50.
  • Criminals,
    • few sent to Virginia, 32, 33;
    • make no imprint on social fabric, 33.
  • Crocker, Wm.,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Cromwell, Oliver,
    • sends Irish servants to Virginia, 33.
  • Crump, Thomas,
    • servant, Burgess in 1632, 74;
    • landowner, 75.
  • Culpeper, Lord,
    • fears ruin of Virginia, 91, 114.
  • Custis, John, 109.
  • Daingerfield, William,
  • Dawson, William,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Day, John, 80.
  • Delaware,
    • manufactures of lure poor Virginia whites, 141;
    • ration to, 139-146.
  • Delk, Roger,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Dicks, John,
    • purchases land, 49.
  • Digges, Dudley, 109.
  • Diggs, William,
    • has 72 slaves, 158.
  • Dinwiddie county,
    • poor whites in, 151;
    • small slave holders of, 153;
    • large slave holders of, 158.
  • Dodman, John,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Dorch, Walter,
    • inventory of, 106.
  • Duties,
    • French put on English woolens, 13;
    • on reëxported tobacco partly refunded, 70;
    • on reëxported tobacco, 117;
    • on tobacco yield grown large revenue, 120.
  • Edwards, John,
  • Edwards, William,
    • has six tithables, 57;
    • slaves of in plot, 128.
  • Effingham, Lord,
    • tyranny of in Virginia, 114.
  • Elizabeth City,
    • plantations of small, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58;
    • servants and slaves in, 59.
  • Emigration,
    • from Virginia in years from 1660 to 1725, 40, 62, 139-146;
    • not caused by large land grants, 144-145;
    • extent of, 146.
  • England,
    • colonial expansion necessary for, 7;
    • forests depleted, 7;
    • industry declining, 8;
    • Baltic trade of, 8;
    • future depends on colonies, 13; 14;
    • joy of at founding of Virginia, 15;
    • disappointed in Virginia, 19;
    • tobacco bill of, 26;
    • supplies Virginia with labor, 31;
    • poverty in, 31;
    • cannot consume entire colonial tobacco crop, 86;
    • tobacco planting in prohibited, 87;
    • glut of tobacco in, 68-89;
    • adheres to colonial policy, 95.
  • Epes, Francis, 79, 127.
  • Essex,
    • land transfers in, 46;
    • plantations of small, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58.
  • Falling Creek,
  • Fane, Francis,
    • says slave labor cheapens tobacco, 132.
  • Fish,
    • plentiful in Virginia, 15.
  • Fithian, Philip,
    • describes poor whites of Virginia, 152, 155.
  • Fitzhugh, William, 109;
    • refers to slave imports, 130.
  • Flax,
    • in Virginia, 15.
  • Fleet, tobacco,
    • brings servants, 35;
    • size of in 1690 and 1706, 122.
  • Foster, Armstrong, 79, 80.
  • Foster, Robert,
    • buys 200 acres, 50.
  • Fowl, wild,
    • abundant in colonial Virginia, 102.
  • Fox, William,
    • has 25 slaves, 153.
  • France,
    • exports wine and silk, 12;
    • British trade with declines, 13;
    • tobacco trade to, 119;
    • trade to injured by war, 131.
  • Freedmen,
    • 80 per cent of servants become, 40;
    • prior to 1660 remained in Virginia, 40;
    • form large part of population, 41;
    • annual recruits of, 41;
    • usually young, 42;
    • might acquire property, 43;
    • perform bulk of work, 43;
    • what became of, 43;
    • become small planters, 60;
    • outfit of, 61;
    • not entitled to land, 61;
    • prosperity of hinges on tobacco, 62;
    • Virginia land of opportunity for, 71;
    • profits of from tobacco, 71-72;
    • in Burgesses, 73-74;
    • prosperous, 74-80;
    • little hope of advancement for after 1660, 97-100;
    • few in rent roll of 1704, 122-123.
  • Freemen,
    • entitled to headrights, 35;
    • many come to Virginia, 36;
    • become small planters, 60-75;
    • many pay own passage, 81-82.
  • Freight rates,
    • high from England, 71-72;
    • excessive, 90.
  • Fruit, 12,
    • abundant in Virginia, 102.
  • Fuel,
    • abundant in Virginia, 105.
  • Gardens,
  • Garnet, John,
    • buys 600 acres, 50.
  • George, The,
    • takes cargo of tobacco to England, 25; 64.
  • Gilbert, George,
    • patents land in James City, 77, 79.
  • Gilbert, Sir Humphrey,
    • voyage to America, 11.
  • Glass,
    • possibilities for in Virginia, 15;
    • beginning made of in Virginia, 17;
    • early history of in Virginia, 18-19.
  • Gloucester,
    • average plantation in, 54;
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 80; 113;
    • poor whites of, 151;
    • small slave holders in, 154;
    • large slave holders in, 157; 159.
  • Good, John,
    • describes poverty in Virginia, 91.
  • Gooch, Governor,
    • says large holdings no impediment to settlement, 145;
    • says poor whites make best tobacco, 147.
  • Governor,
    • plants tobacco, 28;
    • appoints sheriffs, 51;
    • makes efforts to collect quit rents, 51; 65;
    • neglects servants, 73; 90; 109;
    • elected by burgesses, 1652-1660, 112.
  • Goring, John,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Grain,
    • abundance of in Virginia, 102.
  • Graves, Ralph,
    • his servant valued at £10, 127.
  • Grey, James,
    • buys 200 acres, 49.
  • Grey, John,
    • his cattle, 101;
    • inventory of, 106.
  • Grey, Francis,
    • Burgess and landowner, 78-79.
  • Grey, Thomas, 78.
  • Hakluyt, Richard,
  • Hammond, John,
    • advice to servants, 61;
    • describes Virginia residences, 104.
  • Harmar, Charles,
    • imports slaves, 124.
  • Harris, John,
    • Burgess in 1629, 73.
  • Harrison, Benjamin, 109.
  • Hart, Henry,
    • his slave in plot, 128.
  • Hartwell, Henry,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Harvey, Sir John,
    • complains of low prices for tobacco, 65;
    • asks freedom of trade for Virginia, 68;
    • testifies to illegal foreign trade, 68-69;
    • complains of high freight rates, 72;
    • ejected by people, 110.
  • Hatfield, James,
    • landowning freedman, 75.
  • Headrights,
    • described, 34; 35;
    • averaged about 1750 a year, 41;
    • determine size of land grants, 47;
    • brought in by well known planters, 48;
    • do not belong to servant, 61;
    • appear in wills, 76;
    • transfer of by sale, 76;
    • become landowners, 77;
    • not all servants, 77;
    • compared with rent roll, 97-99.
  • Hemp,
    • in Virginia, 15.
  • Henrico,
    • false returns in, 55;
    • farms and tithables of, 58;
    • servants and slaves in, 59; 79.
  • Hill, Edward, 109.
  • Hill, John,
    • landowning freedman, 75;
    • book binder at Oxford, 75.
  • Hodge, John,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Holding, John,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Holland,
    • exports fish, 12;
    • trade of declines, 13;
    • controls slave trade, 31; 125;
    • tobacco exports to, 86-89;
    • Navigation Acts cut exports to, 87;
    • distributor of English colonial tobacco, 88;
    • plants own tobacco, 88;
    • wars with, 89;
    • Virginians threaten to revolt to, 91, 96; 116;
    • tobacco exports to, 120;
    • fights to preserve her monopoly of slave trade, 126;
    • seeks to control tobacco trade on continent, 149-150.
  • Honey,
    • produced in Virginia, 102.
  • Hotten's Emigrants to America,
    • gives lists of servants, 42; 73.
  • Houses,
    • comfortable in Virginia, 103-104.
  • Howlett, William,
    • buy 200 acres, 50.
  • Immigration,
  • Indentures,
    • system of, 32;
    • terms of, 61.
  • Indians,
    • desire to convert, 14;
    • revere tobacco, 24;
    • unsuited for laborers, 30.
  • Industry, 22;
    • pictured in Virginia, 28;
    • Virginia not suited for, 29.
  • Inventories,
    • throw light on distribution of servants and slaves, 59; 73;
    • typical examples of, 106-107.
  • Iron,
    • smelting of exhausts forests, 8;
    • could be smelted in Virginia, 15;
    • early manufacture of in Virginia, 17-18.
  • Isle of Wight county,
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
  • Jackson, William,
  • James I,
    • forced to use tobacco, 25;
    • considers smoking harmful, 26;
    • regulates tobacco trade, 67.
  • James II,
    • tyranny of, 114.
  • James City county,
    • plantations and tithables of, 58;
    • landowners listed as headrights in, 76-77; 79;
    • slave plot in, 128.
  • James River,
  • Jamestown, 14;
    • glass furnace at, 18;
    • streets of planted with tobacco, 25; 86; 111; 112.
  • Jefferson, Thomas,
    • says slavery made whites lazy, 155.
  • Jeffreys, Jeffrey,
    • imports slaves, 131.
  • Jennings, Edmund, 109;
    • describes slave plot, 128-129;
    • says slaves injure credit of Virginia, 130;
    • says few servants in 1708, 130-131;
    • describes slave trade, 130-131;
    • describes migration of poor whites, 145-146.
  • Johnson, John,
    • sells land, 49.
  • Johnson, Joseph,
    • transports servants, 78-79.
  • Jones, Anthony,
    • servant, becomes landowner, 74.
  • Jones, Hugh,
    • says tenants small part of population, 45; 155;
    • says negroes make poor artisans, 156.
  • Jordan, Lt. Col.,
    • pays taxes on seven tithables, 56.
  • Labor,
    • lack of in Virginia, 16;
    • foreign at Jamestown, 18;
    • lack of handicaps industry, 19; 20;
    • in Virginia determined by tobacco, 23;
    • cheap needed in Virginia, 29;
    • serious problem, 29;
    • Indians unsuited for, 30;
    • slave, 30;
    • England supplies, 31;
    • indenture system to supply, 32;
    • influx of, 35.
  • Lancaster, 79;
    • poor planters in, 151;
    • small slave holders of, 153.
  • Land,
    • cheap in Virginia, 29; 45;
    • transfers of in Surry county, 46;
    • in York, 46;
    • in Rappahannock, 46;
    • listed in rent roll of 1704-5, 53;
    • monopoly of said to cause migration from Virginia, 141-143;
    • large tracts granted, 142-144.
  • Land grants,
    • average extent of, 47;
    • determined by method of transporting immigrants, 47;
    • vary greatly in size, 47;
    • not index to size of plantations, 49.
  • Landowners,
    • few large in 17th century, 43;
    • glad to sell in small parcels, 45;
    • chiefly small proprietors, 46;
    • in census of 1626, 46;
    • in York county, 46;
    • in Essex, 46;
    • often avoid quit rents, 51;
    • listed in rent roll of 1704-5, 53;
    • small proprietors neglected in history, 54;
    • often poor men, 55;
    • many work farms with own hands, 57;
    • Government expects servants to become, 62;
    • profits of from tobacco, 71-72.
  • Larkin, George,
    • describes large land holdings, 144.
  • Lawrence, Richard,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Leah and Rachel, 61.
  • Lee, Richard,
    • imports 80 slaves, 125.
  • Leightenhouse, Thomas, 127.
  • Linton, John,
    • estimates colonial tobacco, 115;
    • estimates amount of reëxported tobacco, 118;
    • declares Baltic tobacco trade ruined, 148;
    • describes tobacco raising in Holland, 149.
  • London Company,
    • national character of, 13;
    • plans manufactures for Virginia, 15;
    • cannot secure laborers for Virginia, 16;
    • sets up iron works at Falling Creek, 17-18;
    • displeased at tobacco culture in Virginia, 25;
    • tobacco only hope of, 26;
    • expects Virginia to duplicate England, 28;
    • high price of tobacco pleases, 64; 73; 75.
  • Ludwell, Philip, 109; 113.
  • Ludwell, Thomas,
    • places average tobacco crop at 1200 pounds, 64; 90;
    • says tobacco worth nothing, 90; 91; 96.
  • Manufactures,
  • Market,
    • not free for tobacco, 66;
    • tobacco sent to foreign, 67-70;
    • Navigation Acts cut of foreign, 87;
    • tobacco reëxported to continental, 116-120;
    • Virginia and Maryland furnish for England, 120.
  • Maryland,
    • emigration of whites from, 140;
    • House of Delegates of explains migration, 191.
  • Mason, Francis,
    • seven tithables, 57.
  • Mason, Winfield,
    • has 40 slaves, 158.
  • Massacre,
    • iron works destroyed during, 18.
  • Matthews, Samuel,
    • his estate described, 108.
  • Merchant marine,
    • threatened in England by lack of shipbuilding materials, 9;
    • part of sea defense, 10;
    • depleted at end of 16th century, 10;
    • tobacco exports aid British, 26, 119, 122.
  • Menefie, George,
    • his estate described, 108.
  • Middlesex,
    • plantations small, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58.
  • Milner, Thomas,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Moseley, Capt. William,
    • buys part of Button's Ridge, 50, 109.
  • Muir, Francis,
    • has 47 slaves, 158.
  • Muscovy Company,
    • Baltic trade of, 8;
    • not exempt from customs, 9;
    • urged to trade with America, 11.
  • Nansemond,
  • Navigation Acts, 69;
    • described, 84-86;
    • resented in Holland, 88-89;
    • Bland's remonstrance against, 88;
    • cause of war with Holland, 89;
    • cause extreme poverty in Virginia, 90-92;
    • connected with Bacon's Rebellion, 92-93;
    • why Virginia Assembly did not protest against, 94-95;
    • Berkeley protests against, 94-95; 98;
    • retard growth of population, 98-99;
    • design of, 116.
  • New Albion,
    • describes abundance of food in Virginia, 103;
    • advises settlers in Virginia as to clothing, 104.
  • New Description of Virginia,
    • presents optimistic picture of Virginia, 63;
    • puts price of tobacco at 3d a pound, 66;
    • describes foreign tobacco trade, 69;
    • describes Virginia houses, 104;
    • cites cases of wealth in Virginia, 107.
  • New Kent,
    • farms and tithables of, 58.
  • Newport, Capt. Christopher,
    • returns to England in 1607, 15;
    • brings iron ore to England in 1607, 17.
  • New Jersey,
    • manufactures of lure Virginia whites, 141.
  • Nicholson, Sir Francis, 29; 50;
    • orders accurate rent roll in 1690, 51;
    • again attempts rent roll in 1699, 52;
    • completes rent roll, 52; 54;
    • makes rent roll accurate, 55, 97; 114;
    • gives reason for migration from Virginia and Maryland, 140, 141;
    • sues Col. Lawrence Smith for arrears of quit rents, 143;
    • testifies to large land grants, 144.
  • Norfolk,
    • plantations of small, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58;
    • slave plot in, 129.
  • Northampton,
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
  • North Carolina,
    • servants flee to, 83.
  • Northern Neck,
    • omitted in rent roll, 50; 54; 55.
  • Norton, Capt. Wm.,
    • brings glass workers to Virginia, 19;
    • dies, 19.
  • Page, Matthew, 109.
  • Page, Mann,
    • has 157 slaves, 157.
  • Pagett, Anthony,
    • Burgess in 1629, 73.
  • Parke, Daniel, 109.
  • Patent Rolls,
    • in Virginia Land Office, 34;
    • average grants in, 47;
    • show large dealers in servants, 48; 73;
    • reveal names of freedmen, 74-75.
  • Pattison, Thomas,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Pearson, Christopher,
    • inventory of, 107.
  • Pelton, George, 102.
  • Pennsylvania,
    • manufactures of lure Virginia whites, 191;
    • migration to, 139-146.
  • Perfect Description,
    • numbers cattle in Virginia, 101.
  • Perry Micajah,
    • reports on tobacco trade, 119.
  • Plantations,
    • Virginia made up of, 29;
    • cheap in Virginia, 29;
    • labor for, 29-37;
    • unhealthful sites for, 39;
    • few large, 43;
    • small hold own with large, 44;
    • small outnumber large, 45; 46;
    • transfers of in Surry county, 46;
    • patents not index to size of, 49;
    • tendency to break up large into small, 49;
    • listed in rent roll of 1704-5, 53;
    • largest in various counties, 53;
    • average size of, 53;
    • accurately listed in rent roll, 55;
    • comparison of number of with workers, 55;
    • number in each county, 58;
    • settlers buy on frontier, 76;
    • part only of each cultivated, 105.
  • Popleton, William,
    • Burgess in 1629, 73.
  • Population, 28; 29;
    • growth of from 1649 to 1675, 98;
    • growth of slow, 99, 142.
  • Potash,
    • England's need for, 8;
    • found in Virginia, 15;
    • first efforts to produce in Virginia, 17.
  • Pott, Dr. John,
    • incites people against Sir John Harvey, 110.
  • Poultry,
    • plentiful in Virginia, 102.
  • Poverty,
    • in England, 31;
    • Navigation Acts cause in Virginia, 91;
    • one cause of Bacon's Rebellion, 92-93.
  • Present State of Tobacco Plantations,
    • describes tobacco trade to France and Spain, 119;
    • puts tobacco duties at £400,000, 121;
    • describes ill effects of wars on tobacco trade, 148.
  • Prince George county,
    • plantations and tithables of, 58.
  • Princess Anne county,
    • plantations of small, 53; 54;
    • farms and tithables of, 58;
    • slave plot in, 129;
    • small slave holders in, 154.
  • Public Record Office,
    • has copy of rent roll of 1704, 52.
  • Ramshaw, William,
  • Randall, Robert,
    • seven tithables, 57.
  • Randolph, Edward,
    • remarks on slow growth of Virginia population, 99;
    • says holdings of large tracts of land causes migration from Virginia, 141-143;
    • says quit rents avoided, 142;
    • suggests limiting size of grants, 143.
  • Randolph, William,
    • imports slaves, 130.
  • Rappahannock county,
    • land transfers in, 46;
    • landowners of listed as headrights, 76; 79.
  • Rent Roll,
    • Nickolson orders, 51;
    • attempted in 1699, 52;
    • completed in 1704-5, 52;
    • shows small plantations, 53;
    • accuracy of, 54-55;
    • 5,500 farms listed in, 55;
    • compared with tithables of 1702, 57-58;
    • compared with headrights, 97-99;
    • contains names of few freedmen, 122-123.
  • Restoration Period,
  • Rich, Nathaniel,
    • buys tobacco at 2s a pound, 64.
  • Roberts, Robert,
    • buys land, 49.
  • Robertson, William,
    • makes copy of rent roll of 1704, 52.
  • Robins, Sampson, 79;
    • patents land, 80.
  • Robinson, John,
    • landowning freedman, 75.
  • Rolfe, Capt. John,
    • first to cure Virginia tobacco, 24; 25.
  • Rooking, William,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Rowlston, Lionell,
    • servant, Burgess in 1629, 73;
    • Burgess in 1632, 74;
    • landowner, 74.
  • Russell, John,
    • landowning freedman, 75.
  • Russia,
  • Samuel, Anthony,
  • Sandys, George,
    • selects site for iron works, 17;
    • describes failure of glass works in Virginia, 19;
    • writes for servants, 30;
    • gives wages of laborers, 44.
  • Sandys, Sir Edwin,
    • expects Virginia to duplicate England, 28.
  • Savadge, Thomas,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Scotchmon, Robert,
    • servant, Burgess in 1632, 74.
  • Scott, Thomas,
    • has 57 slaves, 158.
  • Scruely, Richard,
    • patents land, 79.
  • Servants,
    • London Company sends to Virginia, 16;
    • Indian children as, 30;
    • system of indentures for, 32;
    • not criminals, 32;
    • political prisoners among, 33;
    • Irish among, 33;
    • Oliverian soldiers among, 33;
    • they plot against Government, 33;
    • Scotchmen among, 33;
    • Sedgemour prisoners among, 33;
    • chiefly Englishmen, 34, 36;
    • list of preserved, 34;
    • headrights from, 35;
    • influx of, 35;
    • four or five years of service for, 38;
    • become part of Virginia social fabric, 39;
    • hardship and perils encountered by, 39;
    • 80 per cent. become freedmen, 40;
    • prior to 1660 remained in Virginia, 40;
    • length of service for, 40;
    • usually young when freed, 41, 42;
    • estimated at 6,000 in 1671, 41;
    • "seasoned," 42;
    • become small part of population, 43;
    • merchants bring to complete cargoes, 47;
    • individual orders for, 48;
    • in immigrant ships, 48;
    • dealers in, 48;
    • numbers in 1704, 56;
    • listed as tithables, 56;
    • distribution of, 58-59;
    • not slaves, 60;
    • like English apprentices, 60;
    • outfit of on expiration of term, 61;
    • not entitled to land, 61;
    • hope to become landowners, 61-62;
    • Virginia land of opportunity for, 71;
    • freedmen often purchase, 72;
    • of early period become prosperous, 73-80;
    • list of, 78;
    • proportion of among immigrants, 81-82;
    • little hope for advancement of after 1660, 96-100;
    • importation of in Restoration period, 98-99;
    • inventories which show none, 106-107;
    • many freed to fight in Bacon's Rebellion, 113;
    • few become landowners at end of 17th century, 112-113;
    • usefulness of as compared with slaves, 126;
    • price of, 127;
    • not always docile, 128;
    • slave labor curtails importation of, 134;
    • England opposes migration of, 135;
    • vast numbers imported, 142.
  • Seymour, Attorney-General,
    • tells Virginians to make tobacco, 136.
  • Sheep,
    • scarce in Virginia, 102.
  • Sheriff,
    • collects quit rents, 51;
    • draws up rent roll, 52;
    • unearths false returns, 54-55.
  • Sherwood, William,
    • calls Bacon's men rabble, 93.
  • Shipbuilding,
    • materials for needed in England, 8;
    • lack of injures merchant marine, 9;
    • materials for found in Virginia, 15;
    • Capt. Smith explains why Virginia cannot produce materials for, 17.
  • Shurley, Daniel,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Sickness, The Virginia,
    • Capt. Blewit dies of, 18;
    • glass workers die of, 19;
    • servants die of, 33;
    • described, 39;
    • terrible mortality from, 39, 80;
    • abates before end of 17th century, 40;
    • not fatal to slaves, 128.
  • Silk,
    • from South Europe, 12;
    • in Virginia, 15.
  • Slaughter, John, 80.
  • Slave trade,
    • in hands of Dutch, 31;
    • restrictions on, 45.
  • Slaves,
    • adequate for tobacco raising, 29;
    • first cargo of in Virginia, 30;
    • few in Virginia prior to 1680, 31;
    • influx of, 40;
    • numbers in 1704, 56;
    • listed as tithables, 56;
    • distribution of, 58-59;
    • inventories show that many planters had none, 106-107;
    • used by wealthy men in 17th century, 108;
    • first cargo of, 124;
    • few prior to 1680, 124;
    • importations of, 124-125;
    • Dutch control trade in, 125-126;
    • fitness of for tobacco culture, 126;
    • price of, 127;
    • labor of crude, 127-128;
    • health of good, 128;
    • docile, 128;
    • plots among, 128-129;
    • no wrong seen in, 129;
    • duty on importation of, 129;
    • large importations of, 1680-1708, 130-131;
    • 6,000 by 1700, 130;
    • 12,000 in 1708, 130;
    • 30,000 in 1730, 131;
    • use of cheapens tobacco, 132;
    • use of curtails importation of servants, 134;
    • England favors use of in Virginia, 135-136;
    • pernicious effect of in ancient Rome, 137-139;
    • effect of on Virginia yeomanry, 139-155;
    • causes migration of whites, 139-146;
    • at first produce only lower grades of tobacco, 147;
    • become more efficient, 147;
    • contempt of for poor whites, 152;
    • small holders of, 152-159;
    • cast stigma on labor, 155;
    • large holders of increase in numbers, 155-159.
  • Smelting,
    • wood needed for, 8;
    • in Virginia, 15;
    • machinery for sent to Virginia, 17;
    • begun at Falling Creek.
  • Smith, Capt. John,
    • describes Baltic trade, 8;
    • explains difficulty of building up manufacturers in Virginia, 17.
  • Smither, William,
    • buys 200 acres, 50.
  • Smyth,
    • describes poor whites of Virginia, 152, 155.
  • Spain,
    • commerce with, 12;
    • growing domains of, 14;
    • tobacco of used in England, 25, 26;
    • tobacco of excluded from England, 67, 68, 86, 87;
    • tobacco trade to, 119;
    • trade to injured by war, 131.
  • Spanish Succession, War of, 103; 115; 119;
    • cuts off tobacco trade to France and Spain, 131; 148.
  • Sparshott, Edward,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Smith, Lawrence,
    • sued for arrears of quit rents, 143.
  • Sparkes, John,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Spencer, Capt. Robt.,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Spencer, Secretary,
    • writes of reviving tobacco trade, 115;
    • says slaves cheaper labor than whites, 132.
  • Splitimber, John,
  • Spotsylvania,
    • large grants in, 145;
    • poor whites in, 151;
    • small slave holders of, 153-154;
    • land transfers in, 154;
    • large slave holders in, 157; 159.
  • Spotswood, Alexander,
    • says slaves cause over production of tobacco, 129; 151;
    • has 60 slaves, 158.
  • Storey, John,
    • imports negroes, 130.
  • Stuarts, second despotism of,
    • affects Virginia, 114.
  • Stublefield, George,
    • has 42 slaves, 158.
  • Surry,
    • land transfers in, 46;
    • tithables in, 56, 58;
    • inventories and wills in, 59;
    • negroes plot in, 128.
  • Sweden,
  • Symonds, Roger,
    • granted 100 acres, 81.
  • Taliaferro, Richard,
  • Tenants,
    • few in Virginia, 44, 45, 62.
  • Thoroughgood, Adam,
    • servant, Burgess in 1629, 73;
    • Burgess in 1632, 74;
    • landowner, 75;
    • brother of Sir John Thoroughgood, 75.
  • Tithables,
    • those listed as, 56;
    • in Surry, 56-57;
    • number of in various counties, 58.
  • Tobacco,
    • history of Virginia built on, 20, 23;
    • Indians revere, 24;
    • first cured in Virginia by Rolfe, 24;
    • Virginia suited for, 24;
    • ready market for, 24;
    • extensively used in England, 24;
    • used by James I, 25;
    • Virginians turn eagerly to culture of, 25;
    • send first cargo of to England, 25;
    • London Company displeased at culture of, 25;
    • England reconciled to, 26;
    • Virginia's only hope, 26;
    • Crown tries to divert Virginia from, 27;
    • cultivation in Virginia universal, 27;
    • shapes immigration, 29;
    • requires unskilled labor, 29;
    • prosperity of freedmen hinges on, 62;
    • amount of one man could produce, 63-64;
    • over production of in 1640, 63;
    • price of prior to 1660, 64-67;
    • account for migration of 1618-1623, 64;
    • rich returns from, 64;
    • restrictions on trade of, 67-69;
    • growing of in England prohibited, 67;
    • tax on, 67;
    • illegal foreign trade in, 68-69;
    • reëxported from England, 70;
    • Virginia underbids world in, 70;
    • returns from, 71-72;
    • freight on high, 72;
    • effect of Navigation Acts on, 85-96;
    • foreign trade in prohibited, 85;
    • requires world market, 86;
    • planting in England prohibited, 87;
    • exports of to Spain, 87;
    • reëxported, 87;
    • planted in Holland, 88;
    • glut in England causes price of to drop, 89-91;
    • exhausts soil, 105;
    • Charles I makes offer for, 110;
    • trade of revives, 115-116;
    • production of increases, 115-116;
    • returns from, 116;
    • reëxports of, 116-120;
    • production of abroad, 117;
    • duty on yields crown large revenue, 121;
    • price of still low at end of 17th century, 123;
    • slaves adequate to its cultivation, 127-128;
    • wars interfere with trade in, 131;
    • slaves cheapen production of, 132;
    • poor whites produce the best, 146-147;
    • foreign trade in ruined by war, 148-150;
    • advantages of large plantations for, 156-157.
  • Towns,
    • few in Virginia, 29.
  • Townsend, Richard,
    • Burgess in 1629, 73.
  • Trussell, John,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Turnbull, Robert,
    • has 81 slaves, 158.
  • Vegetables,
  • Virginia's Cure,
    • says Burgesses mostly freedmen, 74.
  • Virginia Unmasked,
    • describes Virginia houses, 104.
  • Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
    • shows that many freedmen migrated to Virginia, 81.
  • Virginia Richly Valued,
    • advises emigrants as to outfit, 104.
  • Wages,
  • Wage earners,
    • few in Virginia, 44;
    • mostly recently freed servants, 44.
  • Walker, Robert,
    • has 52 slaves, 158.
  • Warburton, Thomas,
    • patents land in James City, 77.
  • Warden, Thomas,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Warwick,
    • average plantation of, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 81.
  • Washington, Richard,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Watson, John,
    • landowning freedman, 75.
  • Weaver, Samuel,
    • landowning freedman, 75.
  • Webster, Roger,
    • servant, Burgess in 1632, 74.
  • Whitlock, Thomas,
  • Williamsburg, 35; 54.
  • Williams, William,
    • buys 200 acres, 50.
  • Wills,
    • throw light on distribution of servants and slaves, 59; 73;
    • headrights mentioned in, 76.
  • Wine,
    • prospect for in Virginia, 15.
  • Woolens,
    • need of potash for, 8;
    • French duty on, 13.
  • Woolritch, William,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Wormsley, Ralph, 109;
    • letter to from Fitzhugh, 130.
  • Wray, Thomas,
    • granted 50 acres, 81.
  • Yates, William,
  • Yeomanry,
    • largest class in Virginia, 59, 62;
    • freedmen in, 72-82; 85;
    • desperately poor, 90-91;
    • driven to revolt by poverty, 92-93;
    • no advancement for after 1660, 97-100;
    • enjoy plentiful food, 101-103;
    • often suffer for proper clothing, 103-105;
    • Burgesses represented interests of, 109;
    • aid in ejecting Harvey, 110;
    • many favor Parliament in Civil War, 110-111;
    • in control from 1652 to 1660, 112;
    • chief sufferers from Navigation Acts, 113;
    • support Bacon in rebellion, 113;
    • struggle for political rights, 114;
    • few recruits to at end of 17th century, 122;
    • condition of at end of 17th century, 123;
    • effect of slavery on in ancient Rome, 137-139;
    • migration of from Virginia 139-146;
    • produce higher grades of tobacco, 146-147;
    • misery of in 1713, 150;
    • many sink into poverty, 151-154;
    • many become slave holders, 152-159;
    • slaves make less industrious, 155; 160.
  • Yeardley, Sir George, 29;
    • instructed to enforce free exchange of goods, 65.
  • York,
    • land transfers in, 46;
    • plantations of small, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58;
    • servants and slaves in, 59;
    • landowners of who had been headrights, 76; 79; 107; 130.
  • Young, Richard,
    • granted 100 acres, 81.