inia, 30;
few in Virginia prior to 1680, 31;
influx of, 40;
numbers in 1704, 56;
listed as tithables, 56;
distribution of, 58-59;
inventories show that many planters had none, 106-107;
used by wealthy men in 17th century, 108;
first cargo of, 124;
few prior to 1680, 124;
importations of, 124-125;
Dutch control trade in, 125-126;
fitness of for tobacco culture, 126;
price of, 127;
labor of crude, 127-128;
health of good, 128;
docile, 128;
plots among, 128-129;
no wrong seen in, 129;
duty on importation of, 129;
large importations of, 1680-1708, 130-131;
6,000 by 1700, 130;
12,000 in 1708, 130;
30,000 in 1730, 131;
use of cheapens tobacco, 132;
use of curtails importation of servants, 134;
England favors use of in Virginia, 135-136;
pernicious effect of in ancient Rome, 137-139;
effect of on Virginia yeomanry, 139-155;
causes migration of whites, 139-146;
at first produce only lower grades of tobacco, 147;
become more efficient, 147;
contempt of for poor whites, 152;
small holders of, 152-159;
cast stigma on labor, 155;
large holders of increase in numbers, 155-159.

Smelting,
wood needed for, 8;
in Virginia, 15;
machinery for sent to Virginia, 17;
begun at _Falling Creek_.

Smith, Capt. John,
describes Baltic trade, 8;
explains difficulty of building up manufacturers in Virginia, 17.

Smither, William,
buys 200 acres, 50.

Smyth,
describes poor whites of Virginia, 152, 155.

Spain,
commerce with, 12;
growing domains of, 14;
tobacco of used in England, 25, 26;
tobacco of excluded from England, 67, 68, 86, 87;
tobacco trade to, 119;
trade to injured by war, 131.

Spanish Succession, War of, 103; 115; 119;
cuts off tobacco trade to France and Spain, 131; 148.

Sparshott, Edward,
landowning freedman, 74.

Smith, Lawrence,
sued for arrears of quit rents, 143.

Sparkes, John,
landowning freedman, 74.

Spencer, Capt. Robt.,
servants and slaves of, 59.

Spencer, Secretary,
writes of reviving tobacco trade, 115;
says slaves cheaper labor than whites, 132.

Splitimber, John,
his cattle, 101;
inventory of, 106-107.

Spotsylvania,
large grants in, 145;
poor whites in, 151;
small slave holders of, 153-154;
land tra