Lecture Hist 105 502 Fall 2018 Dr C E Brooks Chaos at Jamestown Sept 6 2018 A Early history of Jamestown under the management of Virginia Company of London 1607 1618 Four vignettes 1 Winter 1609 1610 a time of starvation disease and cannibalism only 60 of 500 survive 2 August 1610 English settlers carry out a military raid against a nearby Indian village 3 Spring 1611 Governor Thomas Dale arrives at Jamestown and finds lazy English colonists who refuse to plant corn 4 Spring 1612 Governor Dale presides over the execution of settlers who have run away to live with the Native Americans B Problems of early Jamestown and the colony of Virginia 1 Absence of effective leadership and government 2 Labor problem lazy Englishmen 3 Character of the settlers disjunction between original goals and the reality of the Chesapeake 4 Virginia s Native Americans C From Company to Colony 1618 1624 1 Reforms of Sir Edwin Sandys headrights tenantry end martial law self government 2 Continuing problems high mortality among settlers Indian attack of 1622 3 Revocation of charter Virginia becomes a royal colony D Tobacco Boom 1 Need for white servant labor to work the fields 2 Impact of tobacco on Virginia society E Settling Down 1630 s and 1640 s 1 Death rate declines 2 Pastoral agriculture takes hold 3 Living with impermanence
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