narrow hoes, axes, hand, whip, and band saws, hammers, shovels, and spades, augers, piercers, gimlets, hatchets, bills, frows, pickaxes, nails, grindstones, and ploughs; and also nets, hooks, and lines. He would need in addition a complete suit of light armor, a sword, musket or fowling piece, with a sufficient quantity of shot and powder. The cost of these various articles would not for each individual exceed eleven pounds sterling.
Bullock declared[1] that the emigrant going over to Virginia with two servants would need a plough, three spades, three shovels, three mattocks, two axes, two hatchets, one large and one small hand-saw, all of which could be procured at an expense of three pounds and eight shillings; three gallons of liquor and a case, which would cost one pound; a fowling-piece, with powder and shot, and a casting-net with hooks and lines, which would entail an outlay of two pounds and twenty shillings; an iron pot and frying-pan, wooden platters, dishes and porringers, which could be bought for one pound; and lastly, a miscellaneous collection of linen and woollen clothing, shoes, ironware, and other articles, not to exceed twenty pounds in value. An additional expenditure of twenty-four pounds and eight shillings would be ample for the purchase of the number of cows, oxen, pigs, and poultry, as well as the quantity of seed of different sorts, that would be needed.
During the first year following the arrival of the new comer, in case he did not proceed at once to the culture of tobacco, which was doubtless the course pursued by the great majority of the immigrants at this time, the usual plan was for him to secure lodgings for himself and his servants in the house of a planter who had long resided in Virginia, and to rent a body of land that had
- ↑ Bullock’s Virginia, p. 35 et seq.
