Among the laborers, the London Council had sent eight Poles and Germans, skilled in their own country in the production of pitch, tar, glass, and soap-ashes.

Here, then, begin in Virginia other blood strains than the English.

And in the Mary and Margaret comes with Master Thomas Forest his wife, Mistress Forest, and her maid, by name Anne Burras.

Apart from those lost ones of Raleigh's colony at Roanoke, these are the first Englishwomen in Virginia.

There may be guessed what welcome they got, how much was made of them.
Christopher Newport had from that impatient London Council somewhat strange orders.