The Planters of Colonial Virginia

by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

• Taliaferro, Richard,
  • has 43 slaves, [158].
• Tenants,
  • few in Virginia, [44], [45], [62].
• Thoroughgood, Adam,
  • servant, Burgess in 1629, [73];
  • Burgess in 1632, [74];
  • landowner, [75];
  • brother of Sir John Thoroughgood, [75].
• Tithables,
  • those listed as, [56];
  • in Surry, [56]-[57];
  • number of in various counties, [58].
• Tobacco,
  • history of Virginia built on, [20], [23];
  • Indians revere, [24];
  • first cured in Virginia by Rolfe, [24];
  • Virginia suited for, [24];
  • ready market for, [24];
  • extensively used in England, [24];
  • used by James I, [25];
  • Virginians turn eagerly to culture of, [25];
  • send first cargo of to England, [25];
  • London Company displeased at culture of, [25];
  • England reconciled to, [26];
  • Virginia's only hope, [26];
  • Crown tries to divert Virginia from, [27];
  • cultivation in Virginia universal, [27];
  • shapes immigration, [29];
  • requires unskilled labor, [29];
  • prosperity of freedmen hinges on, [62];
  • amount of one man could produce, [63]-[64];
  • over production of in 1640, [63];
  • price of prior to 1660, [64]-[67];
  • account for migration of 1618-1623, [64];
  • rich returns from, [64];
  • restrictions on trade of, [67]-[69];
  • growing of in England prohibited, [67];
  • tax on, [67];
  • illegal foreign trade in, [68]-[69];
  • reëxported from England, [70];
  • Virginia underbids world in, [70];
  • returns from, [71]-[72];
  • freight on high, [72];
  • effect of Navigation Acts on, [85]-[96];
  • foreign trade in prohibited, [85];
  • requires world market, [86];
  • planting in England prohibited, [87];
  • exports of to Spain, [87];
  • reëxported, [87];
  • planted in Holland, [88];
  • glut in England causes price of to drop, [89]-[91];
  • exhausts soil, [105];
  • Charles I makes offer for, [110];
  • trade of revives, [115]-[116];
  • production of increases, [115]-[116];
  • returns from, [116];
  • reëxports of, [116]-[120];
  • production of abroad, [117];
  • duty on yields crown large revenue, [121];
  • price of still low at end of 17th century, [123];
  • slaves adequate to its cultivation, [127]-[128];
  • wars interfere with trade in, [131];
  • slaves cheapen production of, [132];
  • poor whites produce the best, [146]-[147];
  • foreign trade in ruined by war, [148]-[150];
  • advantages of large plantations for, [156]-[157].
• Towns,
  • few in Virginia, [29].
• Townsend, Richard,
  • Burgess in 1629, [73].
• Trussell, John,
  • landowning freedman, [74].
• Turnbull, Robert,
  • has 81 slaves, [158].

• Underwood, John,
  • patents land in James City, [77].
• Upton, John,
  • landowning freedman, [75].

• Vegetables,
  • abundant in Virginia, [102].
• Virginia's Cure,
  • says Burgesses mostly freedmen, [74].
• Virginia Unmasked,
  • describes Virginia houses, [104].
• Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
  • shows that many freedmen migrated to Virginia, [81].
• Virginia Richly Valued,
  • advises emigrants as to outfit, [104].

• Wages,
  • high in Virginia, [16]; [29]; [30];
  • low in England, [31].
• Wage earners,
  • few in Virginia, [44];
  • mostly recently freed servants, [44].
• Walker, Robert,
  • has 52 slaves, [158].
• Warburton, Thomas,
  • patents land in James City, [77].
• Warden, Thomas,
  • landowner, [79].
• Warwick,
  • average plantation of, [53];
  • farms and tithables of, [58]; [81].
• Washington, Richard,
  • deals in servants, [48].
• Watson, John,
  • landowning freedman, [75].
• Weaver, Samuel,
  • landowning freedman, [75].
• Webster, Roger,
  • servant, Burgess in 1632, [74].
• Whitlock, Thomas,
  • will of, [105]-[106].
• Williamsburg, [35]; [54].
• Williams, William,
  • buys 200 acres, [50].
• Wills,
  • throw light on distribution of servants and slaves, [59]; [73];
  • headrights mentioned in, [76].
• Wine,
  • prospect for in Virginia, [15].
• Woolens,
  • need of potash for, [8];
  • French duty on, [13].
• Woolritch, William,
  • landowning freedman, [74].
• Wormsley, Ralph, [109];
  • letter to from Fitzhugh, [130].
• Wray, Thomas,
  • granted 50 acres, [81].

• Yates, William,
  • has 55 slaves, [158].
• Yeomanry,
  • largest class in Virginia, [59], [62];
  • freedmen in, [72]-[82]; [85];
  • desperately poor, [90]-[91];
  • driven to revolt by poverty, [92]-[93];
  • no advancement for after 1660, [97]-[100];
  • enjoy plentiful food, [101]-[103];
  • often suffer for proper clothing, [103]-[105];
  • Burgesses represented interests of, [109];
  • aid in ejecting Harvey, [110];
  • many favor Parliament in Civil War, [110]-[111];
  • in control from 1652 to 1660, [112];
  • chief sufferers from Navigation Acts, [113];
  • support Bacon in rebellion, [113];
  • struggle for political rights, [114];
  • few recruits to at end of 17th century, [122];
  • condition of at end of 17th century, [123];
  • effect of slavery on in ancient Rome, [137]-[139];
  • migration of from Virginia [139]-[146];
  • produce higher grades of tobacco, [146]-[147];
  • misery of in 1713, [150];
  • many sink into poverty, [151]-[154];
  • many become slave holders, [152]-[159];
  • slaves make less industrious, [155]; [160].
• Yeardley, Sir George, [29];
  • instructed to enforce free exchange of goods, [65].
• York,
  • land transfers in, [46];
  • plantations of small, [53];
  • farms and tithables of, [58];
  • servants and slaves in, [59];
  • landowners of who had been headrights, [76]; [79]; [107]; [130].
• Young, Richard,
  • granted 100 acres, [81].

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Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation corrections:

Pg. 3 - added closing quotes (not even beggars;")

Pg. 142 - added quotes ("It should be inquired into," he said, "how it comes to pass ...)