Dale frowned upon the new occupation, and in 1616 commanded that no farmer should plant tobacco until he had put down two acres of his three-acre farm in corn.[49] After Dale's departure Captain George Yardley, who acted as deputy governor for a year, was not so exacting.

At Jamestown, in the spring of 1617, the market-place and even the narrow margin of the streets were set with tobacco.

It was hard, indeed, to suppress a plant which brought per pound in the London market sometimes as much as $12 in present money.
Yardley's government lasted one year, and the colony "lived in peace and best plentye that ever it had till that time."[50] [Footnote 1: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 114, 130.] [Footnote 2: Hotten, _Emigrants to America_, 245; Brown, _First Republic_, 114.] [Footnote 3: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 121.] [Footnote 4: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 23, 125, 442, 449, 460.] [Footnote 5: _Breife Declaration_.] [Footnote 6: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 133-147, 154.] [Footnote 7: _Breife Declaration_.] [Footnote 8: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 159; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 343.] [Footnote 9: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 250-321.] [Footnote 10: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 228.] [Footnote 11: Hening, _Statutes_, I., 80-98; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 206-224.] [Footnote 12: _True and Sincere Declaration_, in Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 345.] [Footnote 13: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, IV., 1734-1754; _Plain Description of the Barmudas_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No.

iii.); Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 346, 347.] [Footnote 14: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, IV., 1749.] [Footnote 15: _Breife Declaration_; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 404-406.] [Footnote 16: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 330-332.] [Footnote 17: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 480-485; Archer's letter, in Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 331-332; Ratcliffe's letter, ibid., 334-335; Brown, _First Republic_, 94-97.] [Footnote 18: Brown, _First Republic_, 92.] [Footnote 19: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 364.] [Footnote 20: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 497.] [Footnote 21: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 483-488.] [Footnote 22: _True Declaration_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No.

i.).] [Footnote 23: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 498.] [Footnote 24: _Breife Declaration_; Percy, _Trewe Relacyon_, quoted by Brown, _First Republic_, 94, and by Eggleston, _Beginners of a Nation_, 39; _The Tragical Relation_, in Neill, _Virginia Company_, 407-411; _True Declaration_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No.