And there were De La Warr's handful of Poles and Germans, and several French vinedressers.
Political and economic life was taking form.

That huge, luxurious, thick-leafed, yellow-flowered crop, alike comforting and extravagant, that tobacco that was in much to mould manners and customs and ways of looking at things, was beginning to grow abundantly.

In 1620, forty thousand pounds of tobacco went from Virginia to England; two years later went sixty thousand pounds.

The best sold at two shillings the pound, the inferior for eighteen pence.

The Virginians dropped all thought of sassafras and clapboard.