Virginia's Early Years

As part of the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, which took place in 1957, a series of historical booklets was commissioned to shed light on the early history of the European colonists in Virginia. Here we have brought together four of these short works, focusing on agricultural and domestic topics, as their contents continue to be of great interest to social historians of the period. They are: Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Lyman Carrier, Tobacco in Colonial Virginia: "The Sovereign Remedy" by Melvin Herndon, Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 by W. Stitt Robinson Jr. and Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester.