So when I get up there, Im gonna have a cocktail and a cigarette thats nine miles long
Tobacco formed the basis of the colony's economy: it was used to purchase the indentured servants and slaves to cultivate it, to pay local taxes and tithes, and to buy manufactured goods from England
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but occasionally all would join, the whole neighborhood, men, women, and children, when some one's field was to be broken up, and they made a loving, sociable, speedy time of it."[Back to Main Text] Footnote 10: Trinidad tobacco was then considered the finest.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 11: A brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (London, 1588).[Back to Main Text] Footnote 12: The World Encompassed
In 2003, he was a bachelor living with a pet pig when 60 Minutes profiled him