VIRGINIA COMPANY
OF LONDON (VIRGINIA COMPANY)
FACING BANKRUPTCY
STRUGGLED FOR YEARS
PERMANENT SETTLEMENT
IN VIRGINIA
MUCH ENTHUSIASM
MUCH INVESTING
LITTLE RETURN
VIRGINIA
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
IN ENGLAND
DISEASE IN VIRGINIA
INDIAN “MASSACRES”
DICOURAGEMENT
VIRGINIA
SOME
BACKGROUND
1585-SIR
WALTER RALEIGH’S “FLEET” REACHES ROANOKE ISLAND, JUNE (108 MEN)
1586
SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE ARRIVES ROANOKE
1592
JOHN WHITE TO ROANOKE FINDS COLONY DESERTED
1606
VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON ESTABLISHED/CHARTERED
DEC.
1606 FIRST SETTLERS DEPART ENGLAND (214 SOULS)
APRIL
1607 ARRIVE VIRGINIA
VIRGINIA
MAY 1607 200 INDIANS
ATTACK JAMESTOWN (1KIA, 11WIA)
WINTER 1609-1610
“STARVING TIME”
60 SURVIVED BY
SPRING,1610
1609 WALTER DE
LA WARR NAMED GOVERNOR ARRIVES W/SUPPLIES 1610
VIRGINIA
COLONY
HORRIBLY MISMANAGED
COMMUNAL
PLAN PRESCRIBED
LAND
AND PRODUCE JOINTLY OWNED
RESULTS
ACCORDING TO RALPH HAMOR, COLONIAL SECRETARY:
“WHEN OUR PEOPLE
WERE FED OUT OF THE COMMON STORE, AND LABORED JOINTLY TOGETHER, GLAD WAS
HE WHO COULD SLIP FROM HIS LABOR OR SLUMBER OVER HIS TASKE, HE CARED NOT
HOW…NEITHER CARED THEY FOR THE INCREASE PRESUMING THAT HOWSOEVER THE HARVEST
PROSPERED THE GENERALL STORE MUST MAINTAINE THEM, SO THAT WE REAPED NOT
SO MUCH CORNEFROM FROM THE LABOURS
OF THIRTIE AS NOW THREE OR FOURE DOE PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES”
VIRGINIA
1609
NEW CHARTER
GOVERNORS
AND DEPUTIES
SUCCESSION
OF DEPUTIES
COMMUNITY
REGULATED
THOMAS
DALE
PURITAN
DRACONIAN MEASURES
CLEANLINESS
WORK
HOLINESS
RECOGNIZED VALUE
OF PRIVATE INITIATIVE
ASSIGNED
PLOT TO INDIVIDUALS
GROW
CROPS FOR OWN BENEFIT
INCREASE
IN PRODUCTIVITY
VIRGINIA
BACK
TO 1618
PROSPECTS
FOR VACO STILL NOT GOOD
COLONY
NOT PRODUCING ENOUGH
NOT
ATTRACTING NEW COLONISTS
THEREFORE
NO RETURN FOR INVESTORS
A
PLAN DEVELOPS
SIR
EDWIN SANDYS
REORGANIZED GOVERNMENT
OF DE LA WARR AND SUBSEQUENT GOV.’S
PLAN’S OBJECTIVE:
CREATE A COLONY PEOPLE WANTED TO COLONIZED
A PROFITABLE COLONY
VIRGINIA
1612 REVISIONS
TO 1609 CHARTER
CONTROL PLACED
UNDER ALL STOCKHOLDERS
PROVISIONS MADE
TO MAKE MORE SHARES AVAILABLE
A LOTTERY AUTHORIZED
VIRGINIA
1612
JOHN ROLFE PLANTS FIRST TOBACCO CROP
1614
MARRIES POCAHONTAS
PEACE
W/ POWATONS FOR EIGHT YEARS
1618
COLONY’S YIELD=20,000 LBS
1629
500,000 LBS
1604
JAMES I COUNTERBLASTE TO TOBACCO
SMOKING
WAS“LOTHSOME TO THE EYE, HATEFUL
TO THE NOSE, HARMFULL TO THE BRAINE, DAUNGEROUS TO THE LUNGS, AND IN THE
BLACK, STINKING FUME THEREOF, NEEREST RESEMLING THE HORRIBLE STYGIAN SMOKE
OF THE PIT THAT IS BTTOMLESSE.”
VIRGINIA
JAMES’
CONDEMNATION NOTWITHSTANDING
COLONISTS
WERE GROWING TOBACCO IN JAMESTOWN’S STREETS
COLONISTS
REACTING TO TOBACCO LIKE THE 49ers WOULD TO GOLD
CONCERNED
THE COMPANY
ECONOMY
MUST BE DIVERSE TO SUCCEED
VIRGINIA
BY
1620-21 SANDYS AND CO
ISSUED
CHARTER OF GRANTS AND LIBERTIES
REORGANIZED
GOVERNMENT
DO
COMPLETELY AWAY W/ HARSH GOVERNMENT
SECURE
GREATER PRIVILEGES IN ORDERTO
ATTRACT MORE STABLE/ENTHUSIASTIC
SUBSCRIBERS
OBTAIN
CONFIRMATION FROM PARLIAMENT
BETTER POSITION
TO STRENGTHEN COLONY
ENGAGE THE WHOLE
OF GOVERNMENT
VIRGINIA
ESTABLISH MORE
REGULAR METHOD OF MEETING COLONY’S NEEDS
SUPPLY
PERSONNEL
MONEY
TOOLS & ETC.
VIRGINIA
MAKE
ARRANGEMENT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
SCHOOLS
CHURCHES
ROADS
HOSPITALS
COLLEGES
ARTISANS/CRAFTSMEN
ROYAL
MONOPOLY-TOBACCO
VIRGINIA
TOBACCO vs DIVERSIFICATION
STOCKHOLDERS IN
ENGLAND EXCEPTIONALLY WORRIED
CAMPAIGN FOR NEW
CROPS
ATTEMPT TO SET
UP NEW INDUSTRIES
GLASS-BLOWING
BROCKMAKING
IRON WORKING
SALT
SHIP BUILDING
VIRGINIA
1620
COMPANY’S
LEADERS TRY TO BAN
GOVERNOR
TOLD TO DISCOURAGE ITS CULTIVATION
BY
1624 THEY ARE STILL TRYING
TAXES
COLONY
EXEMPTED FROM IMPORTATION DUTIES ‘TILL 1619
DUTIE
WERE HIGH
JAMES
I HATED TOBACCO
DOMESTIC
CULTIVATION
VIRGINIA
TOBACCO AND THE
KING
SEVERAL AGREEMENTS
HAD TO BE MADE ABOUT
TAXES
MONOPOLIES
LANDING CHARGES
TRANSPORTATION
WAREHOUSING
PRELUDE TO THE
FUTURE?
VIRGINIA
1624
VIRGINIA COMPANY’S
CHARTER REVOKED
VIRGINIA BECOMES
CROWN COLONY
WHY, OH WHY?
VIRGINIA
VIRGINIA-
TOBACCO CENTRAL
WE
KNOW HOW JAMES FELT ABOUT TOBACCO
NOT
ENOUGH TO CAUSE REVOCATION OF CHARTER
“MISMANAGEMENT”
PRE-TOBACCO
YEARS
MORTALITY
1607-1624
7549 HAD COM TO
VA
1095 SURVIVED
1 IN 6
MASSACRES
VIRGINIA
1622
OPECHANCANOUGH
8 AM 22 MARCH
350 DEAD
VIRGINIA
BUT EVEN THAT WAS
NOT ENOUGH
WHAT WAS THE “LAST
STRAW?”
SELF GOVERNMENT
VIRGINIA
1619
FIRST ASSEMBLY
IN ENGLISH COLONIES
FIRST “NEGROES”
VIRGINIA
DESIRE FORSELF
GOVERNMENT APRARENTLY WIDESPREAD
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
(1620)
FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS
OF CONNECTICUT (1639)
VIRGINIA WAS FIRST
(1619)
TOWN MEETINGS OF
MASS.
VIRGINIA
SIR
EDWIN SANDYS
GREATE
CHARTER 1618
REPLACE
AUTHORITARIAN/RIGOROUS LAWS DIVINE, MORAL AND MARTIALL
LEGISLATIVE,
ADMINISTRATIVE, JUDICIAL SYSTEM MORE LIKE BRITAIN’S
HOUSE
OF BURGESSES
MEMBERS ELECTED
FREEMEN
INCLUDES INDENTURED
SERVANTS
NO CHURCH AFFILIATION
REQUIRED
VIRGINIA
INDENTURED SERVANTS
FORMALIZED BY BURGESSES
1619
HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
PAY OWN PASSAGE
50 ACRES
PREVAILED FOR MOST
OF CENTURY
VIRGINIA
COLONY IN FOUR
“PLANTATIONS”
JAMESTOWN (JAMES
CITY)
HENRICO
CHARLES CITY
ELIZABETH CITY
(KECOUGHTAN)
SOME SETTLEMENTS
WERE “HUNDREDS”
BERMUDA
VIRGINIA
FIRST
ASSEMBLY
THIRTY
22 ELECTED FROM
SETTLEMENTS
6 GOVERNOR’S COUNCILMEN
GOV., DEPUTY
SPEAKER
APPOINTED
BUSINESS
PLANTING
LEGISLATION GAINST
DRUNKENESS, IDLELNESS
WEAPONS AT CHURCH
VIRGINIA
FRANCHISE
MALE
CHRISTIAN
50L
IN PROPERTY/INCOME
FIRST
ASSEMBLY
LASTED
SIX DAYS
NEXT
IN MARCH
SYSTEM
LASTED 5 YEARS
NEVER
FORGOTTEN