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A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  • Accomac,
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
  • Allen, Arthur,
    • six tithables, 57.
  • Allen, William,
    • Burgess in 1629, 73.
  • Allerton, Isaac,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Ambrose, Robert,
    • deals in servants, 49.
  • Anbury, Major,
    • describes Virginia upper class, 158.
  • Andros, Sir Edmund, 29; 35; 52;
    • hesitates to deprive wealthy of land holdings, 143-144.
  • Archer, George,
    • deals in servants, 49;
    • extensive landowner, 79.
  • Armetrading, Henry, 79.
  • Artisans,
    • became planters in Virginia, 27;
    • called for in broadside of 1610, 28;
    • on the plantations, 156-157.
  • Ashton, Peter,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Austin, James,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Avery, Richard,
    • his cattle, 101;
    • inventory of, 106.
  • Bacon Nathaniel, Sr., 109; 110.
  • Bacon, Nathaniel, Jr.,
    • describes poverty in Virginia, 91;
    • rebellion of and Navigation Acts, 92-93;
    • says peoples hoped in Burgesses, 109; 113.
  • Baker, John,
    • buys Button's Ridge, 49.
  • Baldwin, William,
    • landowner, 79.
  • Ballard, Thomas, 109.
  • Ball, William,
    • has 22 slaves.
  • Baltic,
    • English trade of, 8;
    • Denmark controls entrance to, 9;
    • wars endanger trade to, 9;
    • cheap labor of, 16; 17;
    • tobacco trade to, 118-119;
    • trade to injured by wars, 131, 148.
  • Banister, John,
    • has 88 slaves, 158.
  • Barbadoes,
    • complain of Navigation Acts, 94.
  • Barnett, Thomas,
    • servant, Burgess in 1629, 74.
  • Bassett, William,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Beer, George Lewis,
    • defends Navigation Acts, 86-87;
    • says trade restrictions did not cause Bacon's Rebellion, 92;
    • statement of concerning county grievances, 93;
    • denies that serious opposition existed to Navigation Acts, 93-94.
  • Bell, Richard,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Bennett, Richard,
    • estate of described, 108.
  • Bennett, Samuel,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Berkeley, John,
    • conducts iron works in Virginia, 18.
  • Berkeley, Lord John, 90.
  • Berkeley, Sir William,
    • describes servants, 34;
    • describes early mortality among servants, 39;
    • estimates servants at 6,000 in 1671, 41;
    • instructed to prohibit foreign trade, 69;
    • permits foreign trade during Civil War, 69;
    • calls Virginia land of opportunity, 75;
    • proclaims Charles II, 84, 111; 89;
    • describes poverty of Virginia, 90, 91, 92, 93;
    • controls Assembly, 94;
    • goes to England to combat Navigation Acts, 94-95;
    • plans to establish manufactures, 95;
    • denounces Navigation Acts, 95-96; 98;
    • secures body guard, 111;
    • elected Governor prior to Restoration, 112;
    • fears King's resentment, 113;
    • small planters turn against in Bacon's Rebellion, 113;
    • estimates slaves at 2,000 in 1670, 124; 125; 160.
  • Beverley, Robert, Sr.,
    • extensive dealer in servants, 48, 109; 113.
  • Beverley, Robert, Jr., 61;
    • imports slaves, 130;
    • describes pride of poor whites, 155.
  • Bibbie, Edmund,
    • deals in servants, 49.
  • Binns, Thomas,
    • eight tithables, 57.
  • Bishop, John,
    • Burgess and landowner, 78.
  • Blackstone, John,
    • patents land, 74.
  • Bland, John,
    • remonstrates against Navigation Acts, 88-89; 93.
  • Blair, Rev. John,
    • asks funds for college, 50, 136.
  • Blewit, Capt.,
    • sets up iron works in Virginia, dies, 181.
  • Board of Trade,
    • arrears of quit rents reported to, 51;
    • Nicholson writes to concerning rent roll, 52;
    • says servants not slaves, 60;
    • Berkeley protests to, 95, 119;
    • asks reasons for emigration of Virginia whites, 140;
    • seeks to limit size of land grants, 143;
    • again alarmed at emigration from Virginia, 145, 147, 157.
  • Bolling, Mrs. Mary,
    • has 51 slaves, 158.
  • Brent, Giles,
  • Bridger, Joseph,
    • deals in servants, 48; 109.
  • Briggs, Gray,
    • has 43 slaves, 158.
  • British Empire,
    • beginnings of misunderstood, 14;
    • begun, 19;
    • important rÔle of tobacco in, 27.
  • Broadnat, John, 128.
  • Broadside,
    • in 1610 calls for settlers for Virginia, 28.
  • Browne, Robert,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Browne, William,
    • nine tithables, 57.
  • Bruce, Philip Alexander,
    • describes small planters, 54.
  • Brunswick,
    • land patents in small, 145.
  • Bullock, William,
    • denies that servants are slaves, 60.
  • Burgesses, 54,
    • petition King, 65;
    • complain of high freight rates, 72;
    • freedmen among, 73-75;
    • Navigation Acts and, 94-95;
    • represent interest of small planters, 109;
    • defy the king, 110;
    • petition of, 110;
    • rule Virginia, 1652-1660, 112;
    • growing influence of, 109.
  • Burwell, Francis,
    • patents land in James City, 77.
  • Burwell, John,
    • has 42 slaves, 158.
  • Burwell, Lewis,
    • deals in servants, 48; 109.
  • Burcher, William,
    • patents land, 79.
  • Bushood, John,
    • sells land, 49.
  • Butt, Thomas,
    • deals in servants, 48.
  • Button, Robert,
    • receives estate, 49.
  • Button, Thomas,
    • owner of Button's Ridge, 49.
  • Byrd, William I,
    • says rent rolls inaccurate, 52; 109;
    • uses slaves, 130.
  • Byrd, William II,
    • gives reasons for emigration to Carolina, 146.
  • Carter, John, 109.
  • Carter, Robert,
    • has 126 slaves, 153.
  • Carleill, Capt. Christopher,
    • urges trade with America, 11.
  • Carolina,
  • Cattle,
    • plentiful in Virginia, 101.
  • Chambers, William,
    • servants and slaves of, 59.
  • Chandler, John,
    • landowning freedman, 74.
  • Charles I,
    • considers smoking harmful, 26;
    • tries to limit tobacco planting in Virginia, 27;
    • tries to limit English tobacco crop, 63;
    • limits price of tobacco, 65;
    • regulates tobacco trade, 67-69; 70;
    • defied by Assembly, 110; 111.
  • Charles II, 33;
    • proclaimed in Virginia, 84; 111; 93; 96;
    • not restored in Virginia before Restoration in England, 112;
    • tyranny of, 114.
  • Charles City,
    • plantations small, 53; 54;
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79; 81.
  • Chastellux,
    • describes poor whites of Virginia, 152;
    • notes indolence of poor whites, 155.
  • Chew, Larkin,
    • dealer in Spotsylvania land, 154.
  • Claiborne, William,
    • deals in servants, 116;
    • tobacco exports to, 120;
    • fights to preserve her monopoly of slave trade, 126;
    • seeks to control tobacco trade on continent, 149-150.
  • Honey,
    • produced in Virginia, 102.
  • Hotten's Emigrants to America,
    • gives lists of servants, 42; 73.
  • Houses,
    • comfortable in Virginia, 103-104.
  • Howlett, William,
    • buy 200 acres, 50.
  • Immigration,
    • volume of in 17th century, 35-36;
    • fixes character of eastern Virginia, 36;
    • not restricted to servants, 36.
  • Indentures,
    • system of, 32;
    • terms of, 61.
  • Indians,
    • desire to convert, 14;
    • revere tobacco, 24;
    • unsuited for laborers, 30.
  • Industry, 22;
    • pictured in Virginia, 28;
    • Virginia not suited for, 29.
  • Inventories,
    • throw light on distribution of servants and slaves, 59; 73;
    • typical examples of, 106-107.
  • Iron,
    • smelting of exhausts forests, 8;
    • could be smelted in Virginia, 15;
    • early manufacture of in Virginia, 17-18.
  • Isle of Wight county,
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
  • Jackson, William,
    • has 49 slaves, 158.
  • James I,
    • forced to use tobacco, 25;
    • considers smoking harmful, 26;
    • regulates tobacco trade, 67.
  • James II,
    • tyranny of, 114.
  • James City county,
    • plantations and tithables of, 58;
    • landowners listed as headrights in, 76-77; 79;
    • slave plot in, 128.
  • James River,
  • Jamestown, 14;
    • glass furnace at, 18;
    • streets of planted with tobacco, 25; 86; 111; 112.
  • Jefferson, Thomas,
    • says slavery made whites lazy, 155.
  • Jeffreys, Jeffrey,
    • imports slaves, 131.
  • Jennings, Edmund, 109;
    • describes slave plot, 128-95; 98;
    • retard growth of population, 98-99;
    • design of, 116.
  • New Albion,
    • describes abundance of food in Virginia, 103;
    • advises settlers in Virginia as to clothing, 104.
  • New Description of Virginia,
    • presents optimistic picture of Virginia, 63;
    • puts price of tobacco at 3d a pound, 66;
    • describes foreign tobacco trade, 69;
    • describes Virginia houses, 104;
    • cites cases of wealth in Virginia, 107.
  • New Kent,
    • farms and tithables of, 58.
  • Newport, Capt. Christopher,
    • returns to England in 1607, 15;
    • brings iron ore to England in 1607, 17.
  • New Jersey,
    • manufactures of lure Virginia whites, 141.
  • Nicholson, Sir Francis, 29; 50;
    • orders accurate rent roll in 1690, 51;
    • again attempts rent roll in 1699, 52;
    • completes rent roll, 52; 54;
    • makes rent roll accurate, 55, 97; 114;
    • gives reason for migration from Virginia and Maryland, 140, 141;
    • sues Col. Lawrence Smith for arrears of quit rents, 143;
    • testifies to large land grants, 144.
  • Norfolk,
    • plantations of small, 53;
    • farms and tithables of, 58;
    • slave plot in, 129.
  • Northampton,
    • farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
  • North Carolina,
    • servants flee to, 83.
  • Northern Neck,
    • omitted in rent roll, 50; 54; 55.
  • Norton, Capt. Wm.,
    • brings glass workers to Virginia, 19;
    • dies, 19.

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