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e tracts granted, 142-144. Land grants, average extent of, 47; determined by method of transporting immigrants, 47; vary greatly in size, 47; not index to size of plantations, 49. Landowners, few large in 17th century, 43; glad to sell in small parcels, 45; chiefly small proprietors, 46; in census of 1626, 46; in York county, 46; in Essex, 46; often avoid quit rents, 51; listed in rent roll of 1704-5, 53; small proprietors neglected in history, 54; often poor men, 55; many work farms with own hands, 57; _Government_ expects servants to become, 62; profits of from tobacco, 71-72. Larkin, George, describes large land holdings, 144. Lawrence, Richard, landowner, 79. _Leah and Rachel_, 61. Lee, Richard, imports 80 slaves, 125. Leightenhouse, Thomas, 127. Linton, John, estimates colonial tobacco, 115; estimates amount of reexported tobacco, 118; declares Baltic tobacco trade ruined, 148; describes tobacco raising in Holland, 149. London Company, national character of, 13; plans manufactures for Virginia, 15; cannot secure laborers for Virginia, 16; sets up iron works at Falling Creek, 17-18; displeased at tobacco culture in Virginia, 25; tobacco only hope of, 26; expects Virginia to duplicate England, 28; high price of tobacco pleases, 64; 73; 75. Ludwell, Philip, 109; 113. Ludwell, Thomas, places average tobacco crop at 1200 pounds, 64; 90; says tobacco worth nothing, 90; 91; 96. Manufactures, attempts to establish in Virginia, 15-19; cause of failure, 19; purchased from Dutch, 68-69; colonial system based on expectation of, 86; Berkeley tries to establish, 95; local in Virginia, 103; of tobacco in England, 119, 122; exports of to tobacco colonies, 120; in northern colonies lure Virginia whites, 140; 141; on plantations, 108; 156-157. Market, not free for tobacco, 66; tobacco sent to foreign, 67-70; Navigation Acts cut of foreign, 87; tobacco reexported to continental, 116-120; Virginia and Maryland furnish for England, 120. Maryland, emigration of whites from, 140; House of Delegates of explains migration, 191. Mason, Francis, seven tithables, 57. Mason, Winfield, has 40 slaves, 158. Massacre, iron works dest
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