The Planters of Colonial VirginiaWertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
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The Planters of Colonial Virginia
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
Slavery -- Virginia; Virginia -- Economic conditions; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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,
volume of in 17th century, 35-36;
fixes character of eastern Virginia, 36;
not restricted to servants, 36.
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,
has 49 slaves, 158.
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,
iron works on, 17; 39; 70; 148.
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.
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