Oshkosh Public Library

The Jamestown brides, the story of England's "Maids for Virginia", Jennifer Potter

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-354) and index

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The Jamestown brides

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Jennifer Potter

the story of England's "Maids for Virginia"

1621. Fifteen years after the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the Virginia Company funded another voyage of colonists to the New World. This time their ships carried fifty-six young women, ages from sixteen to twenty-eight, of good character and proven skills... and each had a bride price of 150 lbs of tobacco set by the Company. The women had agreed to journey to Jamestown of their own free will, but were also unquestionably there to be sold into marriage, thereby generating a profit for investors and increasing the colony's long-term viability. Potter explores the women's lives before their departure, then documents the women's lives in Jamestown. -- adapted from publisher info [or should I say "poublsher"?]

Preface: Witness -- Part 1. England and its Virginian colony -- The Marmaduke maids -- The Warwick women -- A woman's place -- Point of departure -- Of hogs and women -- La belle sauvage -- Maids to the rescue -- Intermezzo: Maidens' voyage -- When stormie winds do blow -- Land ho! -- Part 2. Virginia -- Arrival at Jamestown -- The choosing -- Dispersal -- Catastrophe -- The end of the affair -- The crossbow maker's sister -- The planter's wife -- The cordwainer's daughter -- Captured by Indians -- Endnote: return to Jamestown -- Appendix: A list of the maids

Story of England's "Maids for Virginia"