A contradiction in terms was set to resolve itself, a riddle for unborn generations of Americans.
Presently there happened another importation.

Virginia, under the new management, had strongly revived.

Ships bringing colonists were coming in; hamlets were building; fields were being planted; up and down were to be found churches; a college at Henricus was projected so that Indian children might be taught and converted from "heathennesse." Yet was the population almost wholly a doublet--and--breeches--wearing population.
The children for whom the school was building were Indian children.
The men sailing to Virginia dreamed of a few years there and gathered wealth, and then return to England.
Apparently it was the new Treasurer, Sir Edwyn Sandys, who first grasped the essential principle of successful colonization: Virginia must be HOME to those we send! Wife and children made home.

Sandys gathered ninety women, poor maidens and widows, "young, handsome, and chaste," who were willing to emigrate and in Virginia become wives of settlers.
They sailed; their passage money was paid by the men of their choice; they married--and home life began in Virginia.

In due course of time appeared fair-haired children, blue or gray of eye, with all England behind them, yet native-born, Virginians from the cradle.
Colonists in number sailed now from England.