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LANDING OF THE MAIDENS AT JAMESTOWN.
AMERICAN COLORTYPE CO.,
COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JAMESTOWN A. & V. CO.
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JAMESTOW
XPOSITION
JAMESTOWN
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OFFICIAL SEAL
1907
1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
FOR COMMUNICATION THIS SPACE MAY BE USED
No. 15.
LANDING OF THE MAIDENS AT
JAMESTOWN. The early voyagers to far off Virginia
were simply men adventuring to seek their fortune,
which they hoped to acquire quickly and return to Eng-
land. This was not the spirit that founds new common-
wealths, and it became apparent that unless Virginia
was looked upon as home with wife and children to
brighten it, the enterprise would mis-carry. In 1619
ninety young women of unexceptionable character, who
had volunteered for the purpose, arrived at Jamestown
from England. Singular features of the arrangement
were that the husband was to repay the cost of their
outfit and passage in tobacco, 120 pounds, amounting to
about $80, and a proclamation of the Governor that young
women, who betrothed themselves to more than one lover
at a time would be severely punished. Happy marriages
followed the arrival, and the establishment of real homes
proved the plan to be a great success.
M.
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