The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624Hatch, Charles E., Jr.
History
The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624
Hatch, Charles E., Jr.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Payd Mr Felgate upon accompt for charges about the breadroome,
& cabins, for joyners worke, pitche, nayles, bordes &c; payd
for wages of 5 of our seamen for 3 weeks di [_i.e._ one-half]
4_s_ the weeke dayly helpinge ended 17 September Saturday
night; and for the dyet of Toby Felgate at Bristol for 7 weeks
at 6_s_ p. weeke; payd Toby Felgate upon his bill for the
charges of himselfe and hire of his horse to Bristoll and
cariage of his sea cards, affaires & apparell; payd at the
Horshooe for a chamber to stowe our goods bought at St James
faire for 5 weeks; imprest to Mr Felgate to buy 1000 couple of
Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a
barre of iron and hangers in the cookroome in the ship; the
hire of the Swanne cellar 5_s_ and for Hendens cellar for all
our goods 11_s_; charges of diet of Mr Smyth & parte of the
company at the White Lyon, and for the bord wages of other
parte of the company for 14 dayes as by accompt kept by Willm
Archard; paper, inke & parchment for comissions and
quadripartite covenants & indentures &c; 2 boxes for cariage
of comissions, lettres indentures &c. into Virginia; the hire
of a boat that caryed Mris Tracy & the weomen & children from
Bristoll to Crockhampill; to the boatmen at Barkley for
caryage of 2 tun di of pease, wheat, wheat eares malt &c. to
Bristoll; to Mr Willet Customer outwards for the customs of 10
brode clothes & pretermitted dutyes, which is to be repayd
upon certificate from Sir Garroway & Sir John Worsuam; payd
Mr. Tracys bill for a tramell net; payd for the passage of 20
men & weomen from the partes of Hayles to Bristoll, & the hire
of some horses dyet & lodginge at the Horshooe and at Mris
Lewis house and lodginge of many servants as by severall bills
appeareth over & besides what Mr Smyth thought indifferently
fit to abate which Mr Tracy referred to him &c; for wrytinge &
ingrossinge the 2 comissions quadripartite covenants 35 payre
of indentures and divers other particulars; sent to Mr Tracy
upon his lettres after I was come to Nibley to be supplyed,
whilst he lay for wynd at Crockampill with all his company &c.
This list makes it crystal clear that supplying Virginia was both a
costly and time consuming operation. It is clear, too, that supplies
were of the nature that encouraged permanent colonization and residence
in Virginia. Those Englishmen who founded the Colony took as much of the
English way of life with them as was possible be it personal or
political rights and freedom, books, food, clothing, utensils, or
working tools.
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