found churches; a college at Henricus was projected so that Indian children
might be taught and converted from "heathennesse." Yet was the population
almost wholly a doublet - and - breeches - wearing population. The children for
whom the school was building were Indian children. The men sailing to
Virginia dreamed of a few years there and gathered wealth, and then return
to England.

Apparently it was the new Treasurer, Sir Edwyn Sandys, who first grasped
the essential principle of successful colonization: Virginia must be HOME
to those we send! Wife and children made home. Sandys gathered ninety
women, poor maidens and widows, "young, handsome, and chaste," who were
willing to emigrate and in Virginia become wives of settlers. They sailed;
their passage money was paid by the men of their choice; they married--and
home life began in Virginia. In due course of time appeared fair-haired
children, blue or gray of eye, with all England behind them, yet
native-born, Virginians from the cradle.

Colonists in number sailed now from England. Most ranks of society and most
professions were represented. Many brought education, means, independent
position. Other honest men, chiefly young men with little in the purse,
came over under indentures, bound for a specified term of years to settlers
of larger means. These indentured men are numerous; and when they have
worked out their indebtedness they will take up land of their own.

An old suggestion of Dale's now for the first time bore fruit. Over the
protest of the "country party" in the Company, there began to be sent each
year out of the King's gaols a number, though not at any time a large
number, of men under conviction for various crimes. This practice
continued, or at intervals was resumed, for years, but its consequences
were not so dire, perhaps, as we might imagine. The penal laws were