He married the daughter of Sir Tho.

Hinton, and in a word, keeps a good house, lives bravely, and a true lover of Virginia.

He is worthy of much honour."[6] Many other planters were thriving more modestly, most of them giving nearly all their attention to the one crop.

The tobacco output was of course increasing prodigiously.

The export from Virginia in 1619 had amounted to twenty thousand pounds; that from Virginia and Maryland in 1664 aggregated fifty thousand hogsheads of about five hundred pounds each.[7] [Footnote 6: _A Perfect Description of Virginia_ (London, 1649), reprinted in Peter Force _Tracts_, vol.II.] [Footnote 7: Bruce, _Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century_ (New York, 1896), I, 391.] The labor problem was almost wholly that of getting and managing bondsmen.
Land in the colony was virtually to be had for the taking; and in general no freemen arriving in the colony would engage for such wages as employers could afford to pay.