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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER VI
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It issued a broadside, making known that it was sending a new supply of men and all necessary provision in a fleet of good ships, under the conduct of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale, and that it was not intended any more to burden the action with "vagrant and unnecessary persons...

but honest and industrious men, as Carpenters, Smiths, Coopers, Fishermen, Tanners, Shoemakers, Shipwrights, Brickmen, Gardeners, Husbandmen, and laboring men of all sorts that...

shall be entertained for the Voyage upon such termes as their qualitie and fitnesse shall deserve." Yet, in spite of precautions, some of the other sort continued to creep in with the sober and industrious.

Master William Crashaw, in a sermon upon the Virginia venture, remarks that "they who goe...

be like for aught I see to those who are left behind, even of all sorts better and worse!" This probably hits the mark.
The Virginia Company meant at last to have order in Virginia.


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