dripartite covenants & indentures &c; 2 boxes for cariage
of comissions, lettres indentures &c. into Virginia; the hire
of a boat that caryed Mris Tracy & the weomen & children from
Bristoll to Crockhampill; to the boatmen at Barkley for
caryage of 2 tun di of pease, wheat, wheat eares malt &c. to
Bristoll; to Mr Willet Customer outwards for the customs of 10
brode clothes & pretermitted dutyes, which is to be repayd
upon certificate from Sir Garroway & Sir John Worsuam; payd
Mr. Tracys bill for a tramell net; payd for the passage of 20
men & weomen from the partes of Hayles to Bristoll, & the hire
of some horses dyet & lodginge at the Horshooe and at Mris
Lewis house and lodginge of many servants as by severall bills
appeareth over & besides what Mr Smyth thought indifferently
fit to abate which Mr Tracy referred to him &c; for wrytinge &
ingrossinge the 2 comissions quadripartite covenants 35 payre
of indentures and divers other particulars; sent to Mr Tracy
upon his lettres after I was come to Nibley to be supplyed,
whilst he lay for wynd at Crockampill with all his company &c.
This list makes it crystal clear that supplying Virginia was both a
costly and time consuming operation. It is clear, too, that supplies
were of the nature that encouraged permanent colonization and residence
in Virginia. Those Englishmen who founded the Colony took as much of the
English way of life with them as was possible be it personal or
political rights and freedom, books, food, clothing, utensils, or
working tools.
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