[Footnote 22:  Smith, Works (Arber’s ed.), 263.]

[Footnote 23:  Discourse of the Old Company, in Va.  Magazine, I., 291-293.]

[Footnote 24:  Neill, Virginia Company, 395-407.]

[Footnote 25:  Peckard, Ferrar, 145; Discourse of the Old Company, in Va.  Magazine, I., 297.]

[Footnote 26:  Brown, First Republic, 615.]

[Footnote 27:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, 74; Neill, Virginia Company, 407.]

[Footnote 28:  Hening, Statutes., I., 124.]

[Footnote 29:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1674, p. 64, 1574-1660, p. 62.]

[Footnote 30:  Brown, English Politics in Early Virginia History, 89.]

[Footnote 31:  Brown, First Republic, 640, 641].

[Footnote 32:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, pp. 73, 74, 79.]

[Footnote 33:  Ibid., 86, 88; Neill, Virginia Carolorum, 55.]

[Footnote 34:  Hening, Statutes, I., 134.]

[Footnote 35:  In 1624 the crop was three hundred thousand pounds, the total importations from Virginia, Bermuda, and Spain four hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and the profit in customs to the crown was L93,350.]

[Footnote 36:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 89.]

[Footnote 37:  Ibid., 88.]

[Footnote 38:  Hening, Statutes, I., 147, II., 20.]

[Footnote 39:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 133.]

[Footnote 40:  Hening, Statutes, I., 208, 257; Mass.  Hist.  Soc., Collections, 4th series, IX., III.]

[Footnote 41:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 130.]

[Footnote 42:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, pp. 136, 177.]

[Footnote 43:  Hening, Statutes, I., 171.]

[Footnote 44:  Va.  Magazine, I., 416, 425, VIII., 299-306; Neill, Virginia Carolorum, 118-120.]

[Footnote 45:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, pp. 216, 217.]

[Footnote 46:  Wyatt’s commission, in Va.  Magazine, XI., 50-54; Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1674, p. 83.]

[Illustration:  VIRGINIA IN 1652.  Showing the Counties and Dates of their Formation.]

CHAPTER VI

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF VIRGINIA

(1634-1652)

During the vicissitudes of government in Virginia the colony continued to increase in wealth and population, and in 1634 eight counties were created;[1] while an official census in April, 1635, showed nearly five thousand people, to which number sixteen hundred were added in 1636.  The new-comers during Harvey’s time were principally servants who came to work the tobacco-fields.[2] Among them were some convicts and shiftless people, but the larger number were persons of respectable standing, and some had comfortable estates and influential connections in England.[3] Freed from their service in Virginia, not a few attained positions as justices of the peace and burgesses in the General Assembly.[4]