. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . horses, cattle, cannon, fishingnets, and provisions. He never returned, though he made asuccessful voyage to New England. He apparently went awayunder a cloud, but with him went the fortunes of the followed a period known as the starving time, whichended in the abandonment of the settlement, with its fifty orsixty houses and its defence of palisades. The colonists weremet as they descended the river, in April, 1610, by Lord Del-aware (or De la Warr) as he ascended with another
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . horses, cattle, cannon, fishingnets, and provisions. He never returned, though he made asuccessful voyage to New England. He apparently went awayunder a cloud, but with him went the fortunes of the followed a period known as the starving time, whichended in the abandonment of the settlement, with its fifty orsixty houses and its defence of palisades. The colonists weremet as they descended the river, in April, 1610, by Lord Del-aware (or De la Warr) as he ascended with another party ofsettlers; and thenceforward the Virginia settlement was se-cure. Yet it did not grow strong; it was languishing in 1618,and it had an accession of doubtful benefit in 1619, when weread in Smiths Generall Historic, as the statement of JohnRolfe, About the last of August came in a Dutch man-of-warre, and sold us twenty Negars. In 1621 came a moredesirable accession, through the shipment by the company of respectable young women for wives of those colonists who 150 HISTORY OF THE UNITED ARRIVAL OF THE YOUNG WOMEN AT JAMESTOWN. would pay the cost of transportation — at first one hundredand twenty pounds of tobacco, afterwards one hundred andfifty. In July, 1620, the colony was four thousand strong, andshipped to England forty thousand pounds of tobacco. Thiswas raised with the aid of many bound apprentices—boys andgirls picked up in the streets of London and sent out—andof many disorderly persons sent by order of the King. Butin the year 1624 only 1275 colonists were left in Virginia. The colony would have been more, prosperous, CaptainJohn Smith thought, without the tobacco. Out of the rel-icks of our miseries, he says, time and experience hadbrought that country to a great happinesse, had they not so AN ENGLISH NATION. 151 much doted on their tobacco, on whose firmest foundationsthere is small stability, there being so many good commodi-ties beside. But the
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