ABSTRACT
During the first few years of her history Virginia passed through a very serious time, and the young colony was on several occasions brought to the verge of extinction, but with the beginning of tobacco planting by Rolfe in 1612, and the shipment of an experimental cargo in 1613 the tide definitely turned. Bermuda began planting in the following year and by 1619 a generous estimate of the Virginia trade puts it at £100,000.
