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Examine the sources in order to answer the question
Examine the sources in order to answer the question
T. Tobacco
The Root is great, divided into many parts, and it is like to wood in substance, the which being parted, has some bitterness with it. The Rind comes away easily, we know not that the root has any virtue at all. Of only the Leaves we know the virtues. This Herb Tobacco has particular virtue to heal griefs of the head, and in especially coming of cold causes, and so it cures the headache when it comes of a cold humor, or of a windy cause, the Leaves must be put hot. The Indians do use it for to suffer the dryness, and also for to suffer hunger, and to pass days with out having need to eat or drink, They take the leaves of it, and do chew it, and as they go chewing of them… -
Nicholas Monardes - Joyful News our of the New Found World 1577
U. The following excerpt is from “The New Life of Virginia,” a tract published in 1612 by the Virginia Company,
“You shall know that our Colony consist now of seven hundred men at least, of sundry arts and professions, some more or less, they stand in health, and few sick. . . . The Colony is removed up the river fourscore miles further beyond James town to a place of higher ground, strong and defensible by nature, a good air, wholesome and clear (unlike the marsh seat at James town)... The men fell to digging, the brick men burnt their bricks, the company cut down wood, the Carpenters fell to squaring out, the Sawyers to sawing, the Soldier to fortifying. And . . . here they have built
competent and decent houses, the first story all of bricks, that every man may have his lodging and dwelling place apart by himself, with a sufficient quantity of ground allotted thereto for his orchard and garden to plant at his pleasure, and for his own use. . . .”
V. Charter establishing the Colony of Georgia
His Majesty having taken into his consideration, the miserable circumstances of many of his own poor subjects, ready to perish for want: as likewise the distresses of many poor foreigners, who would take refuge here from persecution; and having a Princely regard to the great danger the southern frontiers of South Carolina are exposed to, by reason of the small number of white inhabitants there, hath, out of his Fatherly compassion towards his subjects, been graciously pleased to grant a charter for incorporating a number of gentlemen by the name of The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America
W. Passenger Lists
Landing in Virgina 1635
Landing in New England 1635
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