Women in Virginia Flashcards
‘A Note of the Shipping, Men and Provisions sent to Virginia’ (1619)
90 young maids to make wives for tenants
The Marmaduke, Warwick and Tiger ships (1621)
57 women sent to Virginia
January 1623 Treasurer Sir Thomas Smith received accounts for
Tobacco sent to England for the 50 youths and maids sent to Virginia on the Jonathan and London Merchant ships
2407 pounds of tobacco in exchange for
9 city boys, 9 maids and 4 men
20 city boys sent to the colony between
1622 and 1623
Adventurers regarded men, boys and women
As an investment
Expected to see a return
Usually in commodity shipped back to England
A Declaration of the state of the Colony and Affairs in Virginia (1620)
Written by the Treasurer
Between 1619 and 1621
42 ships sent to colony
Declaration
3570 men and women
Provision and cattle
Ships employed more than 1200 mariners
Bermuda (for Declaration)
9 ships
900 people to inhabit it
240 mariners employed
50 patents granted to (Declaration)
Those who guaranteed to transport large numbers of people and cattle
Captain John Bargrave brought charges against
Sir Thomas Smith (Treasurer of the Company) in 1623
Charges against Sir Thomas Smith
Had performed his role with ‘sinister and private ends’
Had sent few women to the colony and those that had gone were ‘corrupt’
24 June 1624 ‘Law against unlawful implied contracts of marriage’ announced because
Some women had contracted themselves to multiple men in the colony; caused friction
The Court (Governor and Council) ordered every minister to tell his parishioners
That no man or woman could speak about marriage contracts to 2 different people at the same time
