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would begin to sow wheat as soon as the proper season arrived to prepare the land for the reception of the seed, and that there was reason to think that in this step they would be followed by others.[1] When Devries visited Virginia in 1643, he found that the planters were putting down in English grain the lands which had been exhausted by successive crops of tobacco.
- ↑ Governor Harvey and Council to Privy Council, British State Papers, Colonial, vol. X, No. 5; Sainsbury Abstracts for 1638-39, p. 57, Va. State Library.
