England, colonial expansion necessary for, 7; forests depleted, 7; industry declining, 8; Baltic trade of, 8; future depends on colonies, 13; 14; joy of at founding of Virginia, 15; disappointed in Virginia, 19; tobacco bill of, 26; supplies Virginia with labor, 31; poverty in, 31; cannot consume entire colonial tobacco crop, 86; tobacco planting in prohibited, 87; glut of tobacco in, 68-89; adheres to colonial policy, 95.
Essex, land transfers in, 46; plantations of small, 53; farms and tithables of, 58.
Falling Creek, iron works at, 17; destroyed in 1622, 18.
Fane, Francis, says slave labor cheapens tobacco, 132.
Fithian, Philip, describes poor whites of Virginia, 152, 155.
Fitzhugh, William, 109; refers to slave imports, 130.
Fleet, tobacco, brings servants, 35; size of in 1690 and 1706, 122.
Fowl, wild, abundant in colonial Virginia, 102.
France, exports wine and silk, 12; British trade with declines, 13; tobacco trade to, 119; trade to injured by war, 131.
Freedmen, 80 per cent of servants become, 40; prior to 1660 remained in Virginia, 40; form large part of population, 41; annual recruits of, 41; usually young, 42; might acquire property, 43; perform bulk of work, 43; what became of, 43; become small planters, 60; outfit of, 61; not entitled to land, 61; prosperity of hinges on tobacco, 62; Virginia land of opportunity for, 71; profits of from tobacco, 71-72; in _Burgesses_, 73-74; prosperous, 74-80; little hope of advancement for after 1660, 97-100; few in rent roll of 1704, 122-123.
Freemen, entitled to headrights, 35; many come to Virginia, 36; become small planters, 60-75; many pay own passage, 81-82.
Freight rates, high from England, 71-72; excessive, 90.
George, The, takes cargo of tobacco to England, 25; 64.
Gilbert, George, patents land in _James City_, 77, 79.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, voyage to America, 11.
Glass, possibilities for in Virginia, 15; beginning made of in Virginia, 17; early history of in Virginia, 18-19.
Gloucester, average plantation in, 54; farms and tithables of, 58; 80; 113; poor whites of, 151; small slave holders in, 154; large slave holders in, 157; 159.
Good, John, describes poverty in Virginia, 91.
Gooch, Governor, says large holdings no impediment to settlement, 145; says poor whites make best tobacco, 147.