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Show Firsk fi-sL fi sL Firs : - , . SettlersVivcs Settlers * ' ' \ V/ivcs V ivcs 'Vives Vives \Vivcs Vivcs VivcsPaid VivcsPaid / Paid For in TobaccoThe Tobacco TobaccoTlie Tlie The first perunnent perm'1nent perm1nent permanent ' Cnghsh English ngl1sh settle settlement settleinept settlement ment inept In this countly counhy country was "as as " Jamestown JamestownVi , , V'1 V1 1'a 1a ' ' , , settled almost ellhrel entirely by young youngmen youngmen youngmen men who , , for the tl1e n ost part , , t " were "ere ere ere mis misguided misguided misguided guided adventurers who expected e"ipected eipected " : to tostay tostay tostay stay in America a little while and then thenrctUI thenreturn thenrctuin return rctUI n to England nglJ.nd nglJnd . laden \ with tsith \ lth gold and andstiver andsilver andsilver stiver silver like IJI.e IJIe . the Spanish Spanlsb conqulsitadors conquisltadors conquisrtadors conqulsitadorsIn conquisltadorsIn conquisrtadorsIn In 1G09 1GW 1603 there "el el " weie e 200 men at atJamesto atJamestown atJamestown Jamesto\\ Jamesto Jameston Jamestown \ n , , and only 40 acres of land landunder landunder landunder under cultivation cultlv'lbon cultlvlbon ' ; they tbev Ind h'1d h1d had ' not come comefor comefor comefor for that . Tliere There was much discontent discontentand discontentand discontentand and turbulence among them To in- in induce In Induce . - duce them to remain and cultivate the thetobacco thetobacco thetobacco tobacco which wblch was already coming cominginto comingInto cominginto into demand demnnd in Europe , , the London Londoncompany Londoncompany Londoncompany company wliich which had brought the young youngmen youngmen youngmen men there finally made arrangements arrangementsto to send out a number of young women womento womento womento to be \ wives ives to them In 1617 ninet nlnety nlnetyrespectable ninetyrespectable ) re respectable pectable young women were sent sentout sentout sentout out for this purposeOn purposeOn purpose purposeOn On reaching rencbing the colony these women womenwere womenwere womenwere were allowed alloed allo\\ allo \ ed to make free tree choice choiceamong choiceamong choiceamong among the eligible bachelors . , And Andeaeh Andeach Andeach eaeh each ) ioung young oung mm m\n m n min ' \ who was thus suit suit- suited suited suited - ed with a wife wIte bound himself to send sendto sendto sendto to the company in London 1 150 pounds poundaof poundsot poundsof ot of tobacco tobncco to pay tlie the cost of ot bringing bringinghis bringinghis bringinghis his ladv lady to the colony . . Within two twoyears twoyears twoyears years 150 young women had hnd been sent sentout sentout sentout out In this way , , and were comrortnbly comfortably comrortnblysettled comfortablysettled comfortablysettled settled in new homes . |