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Title: The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624

Author: Charles E. Hatch

Release Date: December 28, 2009 [EBook #30780]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Matoaka als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince
Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and
baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the worshipful Mr. John
Rolff

From Weddell, _A Memorial Volume of Virginia Historical Portraiture_]

THE FIRST SEVENTEEN YEARS

Virginia, 1607-1624

CHARLES E. HATCH, JR.

The University Press of Virginia

Charlottesville

COPYRIGHT(C), 1957 BY
VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA

_Tenth printing 1991_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The University Press of Virginia / Charlottesville

CONTENTS

Foreword

The Start of Colonization 1

The Establishment of Jamestown 4

Summer and Fall, 1607 5

The Three Supplies, 1608-1610 6

A Critical Hour 10

Order and More Stable Ways 12

Tobacco 16

Yeardley and Argall 18

A New Approach 21

Yeardley and Wyatt 26

Virginia and the Dissolut