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
Norfolk,
plantations of small, 53;
farms and tithables of, 58;
slave plot in, 129.
Northampton,
farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
North Carolina,
servants flee to, 83.
Northern Neck,
omitted in rent roll, 50; 54; 55.
Norton, Capt. Wm.,
brings glass workers to Virginia, 19;
dies, 19.
Page, Matthew, 109.
Page, Mann,
has 157 slaves, 157.
Pagett, Anthony,
_Burgess_ in 1629, 73.
Parke, Daniel, 109.
Patent Rolls,
in Virginia Land Office, 34;
average grants in, 47;
show large dealers in servants, 48; 73;
reveal names of freedmen, 74-75.
Pattison, Thomas,
landowner, 79.
Pearson, Christopher,
inventory of, 107.
Pelton, George, 102.
Pennsylvania,
manufactures of lure Virginia whites, 191;
migration to, 139-146.
_Perfect Description_,
numbers cattle in Virginia, 101.
Perry Micajah,
reports on tobacco trade, 119.
Plantations,
Virginia made up of, 29;
cheap in Virginia, 29;
labor for, 29-37;
unhealthful sites for, 39;
few large, 43;
small hold own with large, 44;
small outnumber large, 45; 46;
transfers of in Surry county, 46;
patents not index to size of, 49;
tendency to break up large into small, 49;
listed in rent roll of 1704-5, 53;
largest in various counties, 53;
average size of, 53;
accurately listed in rent roll, 55;
comparison of number of with workers, 55;
number in each county, 58;
settlers buy on frontier, 76;
part only of each cultivated, 105.
Popleton, William,
_Burgess_ in 1629, 73.
Population, 28; 29;
growth of from 1649 to 1675, 98;
growth of slow, 99, 142.
Potash,
England's need for, 8;
found in Virginia, 15;
first efforts to produce in Virginia, 17.
Pott, Dr. John,
incites people against _Sir John Harvey_, 110.
Poultry,
plentiful in Virginia, 102.
Poverty,
in England, 31;
Navigation Acts cause in Virginia, 91;
one cause of _Bacon's Rebellion_, 92-93.
_Present State of Tobacco Plantations_,
describes tobacco trade to France and Spain, 119;
puts tobacco duties at £400,000, 121;
describes ill effects of wars on tobacco trade, 148.
Prince George county,
plantations and tithables of, 58.
Princess Anne county,
plantations of small, 53; 54;
farms and tithables of, 58;
slave plot in, 129;
small slave holders in, 154.
Public Record Office,
has copy of rent roll of 1704, 52.
Quary, Colonel,
says wars ruin tobacco trade, 148; 157.
Quit rents,
collected by Crown on land, 50;
revenue from considerable, 50; 51;
often in arrears, 51;
roll of in 1704, 51-55.
Ramshaw, William,
landowning freedman, 75.
Randall, Robert,
seven tithables, 57.
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