A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . as LieutenantThomas Rolfe, from whom are descended some of themost prominent families in our State. Tobacco.—John Rolfe was the first Englishman tocultivate tobacco in Virginia. It was soon to become astaple product and a source of great revenue to thecolony. Abdication and Death of Powhatan.—Powhatan neverrecovered from the blow which the loss of his favoritechild inflicted on him, and shortly after her death he re-signed his throne to his brother, Opetichapan, who was inturn succeeded by Opecancanough, destined to prove a History of Vi
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . as LieutenantThomas Rolfe, from whom are descended some of themost prominent families in our State. Tobacco.—John Rolfe was the first Englishman tocultivate tobacco in Virginia. It was soon to become astaple product and a source of great revenue to thecolony. Abdication and Death of Powhatan.—Powhatan neverrecovered from the blow which the loss of his favoritechild inflicted on him, and shortly after her death he re-signed his throne to his brother, Opetichapan, who was inturn succeeded by Opecancanough, destined to prove a History of Virginia and Virginians. 57 bitter and implacable foe to the English. Powhatan diedin 1618, and Opecancanough reigned in his stead. Dales Iron Government.—Sir Thomas Dale remainedin office five years, and under him the settlement flour-ished, although there is no doubt that his rule was oneof needless severity, and he was in consequence most un-popular with the people. Flogging and irons were thepunishments inflicted for laziness. Mutineers and de-. PASSAGE OP JAMES RIVER THROUGH THE BLUE RIDGE. serters were put to death with great cruelty. These werebroken on the wheel, while the theft of food was punishedby starvation. Regulation of Labor.—He, however, instituted wise re-forms—among others the law regulating the daily laborsof the colonists. Theretofore they had all worked to-gether for the common good, an arrangement w^hich inva-riably results in encouraging idleness and in forcing theindustrious to support the drones in the hive. 58 History op Virginia and Virginians. Land Assigned to Colonists.—Long before this the set-tlers had been promised that each would in time possessa portion of land in his own right, but this pledge hadnever been carried out. Governor Dale decided that itshould be, and gave to those who had been longest in thecolony three acres of ground with the privilege of spend-ing eleven months in each year in its cultivation. Therest of the time the
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