It was at this juncture that in the cultivation of tobacco, called "the weed" by King James, a new hope for Virginia was found. Hamor says that John Rolfe began to plant tobacco in 1612 and his example was soon followed generally. Dale frowned upon the new occupation, and in 1616 commanded that no farmer should plant tobacco until he had put down two acres of his three-acre farm in corn.[49] After Dale's departure Captain George Yardley, who acted as deputy governor for a year, was not so exacting. At Jamestown, in the spring of 1617, the market-place and even the narrow margin of the streets were set with tobacco. It was hard, indeed, to suppress a plant which brought per pound in the London market sometimes as much as $12 in present money. Yardley's government lasted one year, and the colony "lived in peace and best plentye that ever it had till that time."[50] [Footnote 1: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 114, 130.] [Footnote 2: Hotten, _Emigrants to America_, 245; Brown, _First Republic_, 114.] [Footnote 3: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 121.] [Footnote 4: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 23, 125, 442, 449, 460.] [Footnote 5: _Breife Declaration_.] [Footnote 6: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 133-147, 154.] [Footnote 7: _Breife Declaration_.] [Footnote 8: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 159; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 343.] [Footnote 9: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 250-321.] [Footnote 10: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 228.] [Footnote 11: Hening, _Statutes_, I., 80-98; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 206-224.] [Footnote 12: _True and Sincere Declaration_, in Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 345.] [Footnote 13: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, IV., 1734-1754; _Plain Description of the Barmudas_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. iii.); Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 346, 347.] [Footnote 14: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, IV., 1749.] [Footnote 15: _Breife Declaration_; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 404-406.] [Footnote 16: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 330-332.] [Footnote 17: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 480-485; Archer's letter, in Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 331-332; Ratcliffe's letter, ibid., 334-335; Brown, _First Republic_, 94-97.] [Footnote 18: Brown, _First Republic_, 92.] [Footnote 19: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 364.] [Footnote 20: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 497.] [Footnote 21: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 483-488.] [Footnote 22: _True Declaration_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. i.).] [Footnote 23: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 498.] [Footnote 24: _Breife Declaration_; Percy, _Trewe Relacyon_, quoted by Brown, _First Republic_, 94, and by Eggleston, _Beginners of a Nation_, 39; _The Tragical Relation_, in Neill, _Virginia Company_, 407-411; _True Declaration_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. i.).] [Footnote 25: _Laws Divine, Morall and Martiall_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. ii.).]