17th Century Virginia Horse Racing

Virginians loved horse-racing and did so as a fashionable sport. Gentlemen oftentimes were their own jockey. They were bold and even reckless, always ready to mount their own steeds for a heat. In nearby York County, James Bullock, a tailor, was fined 100 pds. Of tobacco for wagering a bet of 2000 lbs. of tobacco on a horse belonging to Mr. Mathew Slader, in 1673. Jamestown was also a popular place for races during festivals.

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Hardships of 1613

In 1613 Mr. Molina, who had been detained in Jamestown for two years, referred to the wretched clothing of the colonists and described his own dress as being in a state of such raggedness as to lave him virtually nakd.  Source: Molina letter to Velasco, Brown's Gensis of the United States, page 651.


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Voyage of 1614

The treasury of the Virginia Company was empty by 1613 and the situation was dire. During the spring of 1614, the company drew up a tract showing the condition of the Colony and setting foth the plan for a great lottery to be issued, with copis sent to all city companies in London, a strong appeal being made to induce their members to adventure in the proposed scheme. In October of 1614, the ship Elizabeth left England for Virginia with provisions of different kinds, purchased with funds raised by the Virginia Company by pledging its credit in the expectation that the amount would be refunded by the payment of claims against those members who had refused to deliver the sums for which they were bound over with their signatures, or who had deferred doing so for an indefinite period of time.

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Squaws for Wives

In 1612 the Spanish Ambassador in London, Don Pedro de Cunega, reported to the King of Spain that at least forty or fifty of the settlers in the Colony on the James River had found wives among the Indians, and that a clergyman who had opposed their doing so, had been strongly reprhnded. Souce: Calendar of British State Papers, Colonial 1674-1660, page 13.

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Markets in Jamestown

In 1649, it was decided to hold markets every week in Jamestown, which was a form of the old English fair.  The fair was one of the oldest of the trade institutions of England, having its origin and principal encouragement in an age when population was sparse and it was expedient to have fixed occasions upon which people could come together from a distance and exchange their products. These markets were restricted to Wednesdays and Saturdays and the boundaries careully laid off.

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