Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Editing -- List of Maps -- List of Plates -- 1 THE BEGINNINGS -- Prelude to Settlement -- 1. The Rationale for Colonization -- 2. Supplies the Colonists Took to Virginia -- 3. The First Settlers -- 4. Instructions from the Virginia Company to the First Settlers, November 1606 -- 5. George Percy's Account of the Voyage to Virginia and the Colony's First Days -- 6. Some Contemporary Explanations for Virginia's Early Failures -- The Struggle for Survival -- 7. A Share of Stock in the London Company, 1610 -- 8. The "Starving Time," 1609-1610 -- 9. Excerpts from the Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall, 1612 -- 10. Sir Thomas Dale's Plan for Revitalizing the Colony, 1611 -- 11. John Rolfe Experiments with Tobacco Growing, 1612 -- Virginia Transformed -- 12. The Beginning of Representative Government: The Virginia Company Creates a General Assembly -- 2 THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT IN VIRGINIA: THE GOVERNOR AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- The Governor -- 1. Instructions to Sir William Berkeley, August 1641 -- The Council of State -- 2. The Governor and Council as Court, 1674 -- 3. The Burgesses Elect the Governor and Council, 1652 -- The House of Burgesses -- 4. Election of Burgesses, 1636 -- 5. Freeholders Ordered to Meet with Their Burgesses, 1671 -- 6. The Evolution of Burgess Representation -- 7. Control over Legislative Procedures -- 8. Initiation of Legislation -- 9. Control over Taxation -- 10. Control over Local Affairs: The General Assembly Creates the County Court System, 1634 -- 3 THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT IN VIRGINIA: LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- The Organization of County Government -- 1. The Creation of Rappahannock County, 1656 -- 2. The Appointment of County Officers -- The Growth of the County Courts' Statutory Control of Local Affairs -- 3. Acts of the Assembly, 1642/3-1661/2.

The County Court as a Place of Record -- 4. A Land Deed Recorded, 1638 -- 5. A Deed of Sale, 1664 -- 6. A Will Recorded and Probated, 1680 -- 7. Mary Allen's Power of Attorney, 1665 -- 8. Cattle Registry, 1665 -- 9. A Coroner's Inquest, 1647 -- The County Courts' Administrative Duties -- 10. County Court Procedure, 1675 -- 11. Justices Fined for Failing to Attend Their Court, 1663/4 -- 12. The Regulation of a Public House, 1667 -- 13. The Care of the Indigent and the Infirm -- 14. County Defense, 1674 -- 15. Tax Collection, 1672 -- The Problems of Law and Order -- 16. Civil Justice -- 17. Criminal Justice -- 4 THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY -- The Character of Virginia's Population -- 1. An Excerpt from the Census of 1624/5 -- 2. Virginia's Population in 1634 -- 3. Sir William Berkeley's Estimate of Virginia's Population, 1670 -- 4. A Tithing List -- 5. A Land Patent -- The Willoughby Family, 1610-1699 -- 6. The Original English Residence of Thomas Willoughby -- 7. Thomas Willoughby Arrives in Virginia -- 8. An Early Land Patent of Thomas Willoughby -- 9. Offices Held by Thomas Willoughby -- 10. Some Debts Owed to Thomas Willoughby -- 11. The Lower Norfolk Justices Appoint Thomas Willoughby to Recruit a Minister, 1655 -- 12. Death of Thomas Willoughby, 1658 -- 13. Thomas Willoughby's Children -- 14. Thomas Willoughby II Apprenticed as a Merchant Tailor, 1644 -- 15. Thomas Willoughby II Refuses the Office of Justice of the Peace, 1656 -- 16. Thomas Willoughby II Refuses Jury Service, 1656 -- 17. Offices Held by Thomas Willoughby II -- 18. The Wife of Thomas Willoughby II -- 19. Thomas Willoughby II's Children -- 20. Death of Thomas Willoughby II, 1672 -- 21. Thomas Willoughby III's Appointment to the Bench of Lower Norfolk County, 1698 -- Wider Kin Connections of the Willoughby Family -- 22. The Husbands of Elizabeth, Daughter of Thomas Willoughby.

5 BOUND LABOR: INDENTURED SERVITUDE -- Procurement of Indentured Servants -- 1. Richard Garford's Contract to Provide a Servant for Thomas Workman, 1654 -- 2. Servants Imported by Headright, 1652 -- 3. Roger Jones's Indenture, 1688 -- 4. Richard Willis Agrees to Teach John Talbert a Trade, 1680 -- 5. The Custom of the Country, 1656 -- 6. The Sale of a Servant without an Indenture, 1665 -- The Hazards of Servitude -- 7. An Assault on Charity Dallen, 1649 -- 8. James Revel Describes the Servant's Plight, circa 1680 -- 9. Edward Whittell Commits Suicide, 1664 -- Problems Created by the Use of Servant Labor -- 10. A Runaway, 1680 -- 11. Bastard Children, 1663 -- 12. A Frivolous Lawsuit, 1681 -- 13. Theft of Master's Goods, 1684 -- 14. A Servant Assaults His Mistress, 1679 -- 15. The Gloucester County Conspiracy, 1663 -- 16. The Middlesex County Conspiracy, 1687 -- 6 BOUND LABOR: SLAVERY -- The Arrival of Africans in Virginia, 1619 -- 1. John Rolfe to Sir Edwin Sandys, January 1619/20 -- The Free African-Virginian -- 2. Anthony Johnson's Servant, 1655 -- 3. Francis Paine's Will, 1673 -- 4. Philip Mongom Is Accused of Stealing Hogs, 1659/60 -- 5. John Francisco Maintains a Bastard Child, 1668 -- 6. An Example of Intermarriage, 1671 -- 7. John Francisco's Suit in Chancery, 1673/4 -- 8. Susannah's Case, 1677 -- 9. The Suit against Mary Williams, 1688 -- Problems Created by the Use of Slave Labor -- 10. Runaways -- 11. Slave Insurrections -- 12. The Difficulty in Maintaining Racial Separation -- The Paths to Freedom -- 13. Mihill Gowen Is Set Free by His Master's Will, 1657/8 -- 14. Antonio to Gain Freedom after Ten Years' Service, 1678 -- 15. John and Isabell Daule Purchase Their Freedom, 1670 -- 16. The Courts as an Avenue to Freedom -- The Evolution of Slavery's Definition in the Law -- 17. Acts of the General Assembly, 1640-1700 -- 7 TOBACCO AND TRADE.

The Production of Tobacco -- 1. How to Plant Tobacco, 1615 -- The Tobacco Trade -- 2. The Sale of Tobacco, 1651 -- 3. A Bill of Exchange, 1668 -- 4. Captain Yardley Buys Five Africans, 1648 -- 5. Correspondence between Merchants and Planters -- 6. A Power of Attorney, 1657 -- 7. A Bill of Lading and an Invoice of Goods Bound for Virginia, 1661 -- 8. Correspondence between James Barton and Thomas Wilke, 1680 -- 9. A Virginia Merchant's Stock -- 10. Jonathan Newell's Accounts, 1677 -- 11. Agricultural Diversity, 1649 -- 12. Sir William Berkeley's Scheme for Diversifying the Economy, 1662 -- 13. Sericulture, 1666 -- 14. Robert Beverley's Explanation for Governor Berkeley's Failure, 1705 -- 8 INDIANS AND WHITES: THE CONFLICT OF CULTURES -- 1. John Smith's Description of the Indian Way, 1612 -- 2. William Strachey's Profile of Powhatan, 1612 -- 3. John Rolfe Requests Permission to Marry Pocahontas, 1614 -- 4. The Outbreak of the Anglo-Indian War of 1622-1632 -- 5. John Martin's Scheme for Defeating the Indians, 1622 -- 6. The Governor and Council Threaten Reprisals against the Indians, 1629 -- 7. Lower Norfolk County Sends Its Militia against the Nanticokes, 1639 -- 8. Indian Chiefs Seek Pardon for John Burton, 1640 -- 9. The Anglo-Indian War of 1644-1646 -- 10. The Peace Treaty That Ended the Anglo-Indian War of 1644-1646 -- 11. The English Formulate an Indian Policy -- 12. Sources of Potential Trouble between the Indians and the English, 1661-1675 -- 13. The Anglo-Indian War of 1675-1677 -- 14. Robert Beverley's Estimate of the Indian Population, circa 1705 -- 9 UPHEAVAL AND REBELLION -- The Thrusting out of Sir John Harvey, 1635 -- 1. The Mutineers' Complaints against Harvey: Samuel Mathews to Sir John Wolstenholme -- 2. Harvey's Account of His Troubles -- 3. Sir William Berkeley Explains to Charles II the Surrender of Virginia, May 1652.

The Lawne's Creek Rising, December 1673 -- 4. The Causes of Discontent -- 5. The Prosecution of the Lawne's Creek Dissidents, January 1673/4 -- Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 -- 6. The Causes of Discontent -- 7. Berkeley Attempts to Regain His Popularity -- 8. Berkeley Asks to Be Replaced -- 9. Bacon Is Elected Burgess for Henrico -- 10. Bacon's Submission -- 11. The June Assembly -- 12. Bacon's "Manifesto" -- 13. Postrebellion Grievances -- The Plant-Cutter Riots, 1681-1683 -- 14. Two Accounts of the Riots -- 15. Governor Culpeper's Handling of the Plant Cutters, January 1681/2 -- 10 LIFE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VIRGINIA -- The Voyage to Virginia -- 1. Henry Norwood's Passage to Virginia, 1649 -- This New Land, Virginia -- 2. Samuel Purchas's Description of Virginia, 1613 -- 3. Two Views of Virginia's Promise -- Houses and Household Property -- 4. Types of Houses -- 5. John Waroe's Estate, 1650 -- Family Matters -- 6. Correspondence -- 7. Tensions in the Household -- Religious Life -- 8. The Church -- Leisure Pursuits -- 9. Amusements, Games, and Sports -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.