Wives for Settlers Jamestown Virginia circa 1620-22
From an original engraving Ridpath's History of the United States Pub circa 1894 Info from National Women's History Museum website: The Virginia Company of London began recruiting women specifically as marriage prospects for Jamestown settlers in 1619. Corporate managers believed that “the Plantation can never flourish till families be planted and the respect of wives and children fix the people in the soyle.” (9) The first group of prospective brides, who arrived later in 1619, were described as “one widow and eleven maids for wives of the people of Virginia
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