In silence Virginia received him, and while he remained Governor no Assembly sat.
But having asserted his authority, the King in a few years' time was willing to recall his unwelcome representative.

So in 1639 Governor Harvey vanishes from the scene, and in comes the well-liked Sir Francis Wyatt as Governor for the second time.

For two years he remains, and is then superseded by Sir William Berkeley, a notable figure in Virginia for many years to come.

The population was now perhaps ten thousand, both English born and Virginians born of English parents.

A few hundred negroes moved in the tobacco fields.