HISTORY. 1 1 



stores, which afforded relief to the people. About 

 this time the potato and tobacco were first cultivated. 

 During Governor Moor's administration, the com- 

 pany employed Richard Norwood in dividing the 

 island into tribes and shares, fifty shares being 

 allotted to each tribe. Moor displeased the Com- 

 pany by opposing their projected division of the 

 colony into shares, in which he insisted that neither 

 his own interest nor that of the colonists was duly 

 considered. This displeasure of the Company was 

 followed by Moor's rpcall, and the ship Welcome 

 took him home, leaving the administration in charge 

 of six persons, who were to rule, each in turn, 

 one month. Governor Moor was indefatigable in 

 liis exertions for the benefit of the colony. He was 

 a man of ordinary condition, a carpenter by trade, 

 but by his firmness, prudence, and popular manners, 

 he soon silenced all impertinence, and shamed all 

 attempts at opposition in England. 



He was succeeded by Daniel Tucker, in May, 

 1616, when a very important era dawned upon the 

 island, as a Court of General Assize was held at 

 St. George in the second month of Tucker's admi- 

 nistration, being the first real attempt to establish 

 law and justice in the island. 



This measure met with the usual opposition, and 



