48 FIRST GENERAL PLANTING. 
no man hath laboured to his power there, and worthy incour- 
agement unto England, by his letters than he hath done, 
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witness his niarriage with Powhatan’s daughter one of rude 
education, manners barbarous, and cursed generation merely 
for the good and honor of the plantation.” 
The first general planting of tobacco by the colony began 
according to this writer—“at West and Sherley Hundred 
(seated on the north. side of the river, lower than the Ber- 
mudas three or four myles) where are twenty-five commanded 
by capten Maddeson—who are imployed onely in planting 
and curing tobacco.” 
This was in 1616, when the colony numbered only three 
hundred and fifty-one persons. Rolfe, in his relation of the 
state of Virginia, written and addressed to the King, gives 
the following description of the condition of the colony in 
1616: 
