In the first seventeen years, despite hardship, suffering, death, discouragement and defeats, a great deal had been accomplished in Virginia. The colonists, some of whom had already become "ancient planters," had met and learned many of the ways of the wilderness and the new environment. They had learned to survive and had gained knowledge of the country's advantages and disadvantages and its nature and extent. After many false starts, a source of wealth had been found in tobacco. Security was coming to replace insecurity and individual well-being was rising above the earlier general storehouse or magazine system. Government, too, after several changes of direction, had become stable and even embraced a representative legislative assembly. It seems that King James I, when he took over, directly, the management of the Colony, must have found that the Virginia Company of London had built well in the New World. Otherwise, the change of administration would have been more disrupting than it was in Virginia. SELECTED READINGS Andrews, Charles M., _The Colonial Period of American History: The Settlements_ I. New Haven, c.1934 (several printings). Andrews, Matthew Page, _Virginia: The Old Dominion_. New York, c.1937. Brown, Alexander, _The First Republic in America_. Boston, 1898. Brown, Alexander (ed.), _The Genesis of the United States_.... Boston, 1896. 2 volumes. Chandler, J. A. C., and Thames, T. B., _Colonial Virginia_. Richmond, 1907. Craven, Wesley Frank, _The Dissolution of the Virginia Company of London_. New York, 1932. Forman, Henry Chandlee, _Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of Romance_. Baltimore, 1938. Hamor, Ralph, _A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia and the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of June, 1614_. London, 1615. The J. Munsell reprint (Albany, 1860) The Virginia State Library are more readily available. McIlwaine, H. R. (ed.), _Minutes of the Council and General Court of Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676_. Richmond, 1924. Neill, Edward D., _History of the Virginia Company of London_. Albany, New York, 1869. _Virginia Vetusta, During the Reign of James the First_.... Albany, New York, 1885. Powell, William S., "Books in the Virginia Colony before 1624." _The William and Mary Quarterly_, 3rd Series, V, 177-184 (April, 1948). Rolfe, John, _A True Relation of Virginia_ [in 1616] as printed by Henry C. Taylor. New Haven, 1951. Sams, Conway Whittle, _The Conquest of Virginia_. 4 volumes ("The Forest Primeval," "The First Attempt," "The Second Attempt," and "The Third Attempt"). New York, 1916-1939. Smith, John, _The Travels and Works of Captain John Smith_. Edited by Edward Arber with introduction. Edinburgh, 1910. 2 volumes. Stanard, Mary Newton, _The Story of Virginia's First Century_. Philadelphia, 1928.