Men of means and influence obtained great holdings; ownership, rental, sale, and purchase of the land began in Virginia much as in older times it had begun in England.
Only here, in America, where it seemed that the land could never be exhausted, individual holdings were often of great acreage.

Thus arose the Virginia Planter.
In Yeardley's time John Berkeley established at Falling Creek the first iron works ever set up in English-America.

There were by this time in Virginia, glass works, a windmill, iron works.

To till the soil remained the chief industry, but the tobacco culture grew until it overshadowed the maize and wheat, the pease and beans.

There were cattle and swine, not a few horses, poultry, pigeons, and peacocks.
In 1621 Yeardley, desiring to be relieved, was succeeded by Sir Francis Wyatt.