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the duty of compelling the head of every family engaged in cultivating the ground, to plant grain sufficient to assure bread for those who were dependent on him.[1] The Company in England was urged by the Governor and Council in Virginia to suffer no one to leave the mother country with the intention of settling in the Colony without a supply of grain that would last him for twelve months.
- ↑ Laws and Orders of Assembly, Feb. 16, 1623, British State Papers, Colonial, vol. III, No. 9; McDonald Papers, vol. I, pp. 97, 98, Va. State Library.
