s; a college at Henricus was projected so that Indian
children might be taught and converted from "heathennesse." Yet was the
population almost wholly a doublet--and--breeches--wearing population.
The children for whom the school was building were Indian children.
The men sailing to Virginia dreamed of a few years there and gathered
wealth, and then return to England.

Apparently it was the new Treasurer, Sir Edwyn Sandys, who first grasped
the essential principle of successful colonization: Virginia must be
HOME to those we send! Wife and children made home. Sandys gathered
ninety women, poor maidens and widows, "young, handsome, and chaste,"
who were willing to emigrate and in Virginia become wives of settlers.
They sailed; their passage money was paid by the men of their choice;
they married--and home life began in Virginia. In due course of time
appeared fair-haired children, blue or gray of eye, with all England
behind them, yet native-born, Virginians from the cradle.

Colonists in number sailed now from England. Most ranks of society
and most professions were represented. Many brought education, means,
independent position. Other honest men, chiefly young men with little
in the purse, came over under indentures, bound for a specified term of
years to settlers of larger means. These indentured men are numerous;
and when they have worked out their indebtedness they will take up land
of their own.

An old suggestion of Dale's now for the first time bore fruit. Over the
protest of the "country party" in the Company, there began to be sent
each year out of the King's gaols a number, though not at any time a
large number, of men under conviction for various crimes. This practice
continued, or at intervals was resumed, for years, but its consequences
were not so dire, perhaps, as we might imagine. The penal laws were
execrably brutal, and in the drag-net of the law might be found many
merely unfortunate, many perhaps finer than the law.

Virginia thus was founded and established. An English people moved
through her forests, crossed in boats her shining waters, trod the
lanes of hamlets builded of wood but after English fashions.
Climate, surrounding nature, differed from old England, and these and
circumstance would work for variation. But the stock was Middlesex,
Surrey, Devon, and all the other shires of England. Scotchmen came also,
Welshmen, and, perhaps as early as this, a few Irish. And there were De
La Warr's