[2-14] The lack of towns in Virginia was a source of great regret to the English Government, and more than once attempts were made to create them by artificial means.
[2-15] Even at the end of the Seventeenth century the average price for land in the older counties was about thirty pounds of tobacco an acre.
[2-16] P. A. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, Vol. I, p. 578; Vol. II, p. 48.
[2-17] It was Chanco, an Indian boy living with a Mr. Pace, who revealed the plot to massacre the whites in 1622, and so saved the colony from destruction. Edward Arber, The Works of Captain John Smith, p. 578.
[2-18] P. A. Bruce, The Economic History of Virginia, Vol. II, p. 70.
[2-19] For a full discussion of this matter see p.—.
[2-20] Hakluyt, Vol. VII, p. 286.
[2-21] P. A. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, Vol. I, p. 582.
[2-22] Abstracts of Proceedings of Virginia Company of London, Vol. I, pp. 28, 172; Edward Arber, The Works of Captain John Smith, p. 609.
[2-23] Hening, Statutes at Large, Vol. II, p. 510.