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planters, and among them certaine young maycles (or, at the least, 

 single women), sent over at the cost and by the pious intention (as 

 the generall letters sayd) of some Adventurous of the Company to 

 make wives for such single men of the country as would paye one 

 hundred poundes of tobacco apeece for every one of them." 



It is not surprising, therefore, that soon after this we read of 

 women being often punished at the whipping posts and ducking 

 stools, and in other ways. 



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Figure 3.1.— Old St. George's Town, in 16'22, after Norwood, from a print pub- 

 lished in 1624 by Capt. John Smith, showing the Governor's House, Guns, 

 and Stocks in the foreground ; the Church near the middle ; E. Warwick's 

 Fort. All the roofs are thatched with palmetto leaves. 



Children of poor debtors could be sold, after the death of their 

 parents, to pay debts. Boj r s sent out for apprentices were often sold 

 to the highest bidders, and were practically slaves for a term of 

 years. 



The laborers, both men and women, thus sent out were mostly a 

 very disreputable class. They were occasionally taken from the 

 prisons, and sometimes they were impressed from the streets, by 

 order of the King, both for Bermuda and Virginia. 



