Produced by Paul Dring, Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcribers note: | | Extensive research has found no evidence of copyright | | renewal for this work. | +----------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: Matoaka als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the worshipful Mr. John Rolff From Weddell, _A Memorial Volume of Virginia Historical Portraiture_] THE FIRST SEVENTEEN YEARS Virginia, 1607-1624 CHARLES E. HATCH, JR. The University Press of Virginia Charlottesville COPYRIGHT(C), 1957 BY VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA _Tenth printing 1991_ PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The University Press of Virginia / Charlottesville CONTENTS Foreword The Start of Colonization 1 The Establishment of Jamestown 4 Summer and Fall, 1607 5 The Three Supplies, 1608-1610 6 A Critical Hour 10 Order and More Stable Ways 12 Tobacco 16 Yeardley and Argall 18 A New Approach 21 Yeardley and Wyatt 26 Virginia and the Dissolution 29 The Spread of Settlement--1607 to 1624 34 Towns, Plantations, Settlements, and Communities in Virginia: 1607-1624 (numbers are keyed to text and to illustrating map) 32, 33 1. Pasbehegh Country--1617 35 A. Argall Town--1617 36 B. Pasbehegh--c.1617 37 C. "the Maine"--1608 37 2. Smith's (Southampton) Hundred--1617 38 3. "Tanks Weyanoke"--c.1618 41 4. Swinhows--before 1622 43 5. Westover--c.1619 43 6. Berkeley Town and Hundred--1619 44 7. Causey's Care (or "Cleare")--c.1620 46 8. West and Shirley Hundred--c.1613 47 9. Upper Hundred-"Curls"--c.1613 49 10. "Diggs His Hundred"--c.1613 49 11. The "citty of Henricus" (Henrico)--1611 50