The frow is driven through the wood
by a wooden mallet, to the end that the sides of the clapboard may
be fairly smooth.
Master Hunt has told me that if we were to put on board a ship the
size of the John and Francis, as many clapboards as she could swim
under, the value of the cargo would be no less than five hundred
pounds, and they would have a ready sale in London, or in other
English ports.
PROVIDING FOR THE CHILDREN
And now before I am come to the most terrible time in the history
of our town of James, let me set down that which the London Company
has decreed, for it is of great importance to all those who, like
Nathaniel and me, came over into this land of Virginia before they
were men and women grown.
Master Hunt has written the facts out fairly, to the end that I may
understand them well, he having had the information from Captain
Newport, for it was the last decree made by the London Company
before the John and Francis sailed.
I must say, however, that the reason why this decree, or order,
whichever it may be called, has been made, was to the end that men
and women, who had large families of children, might be induced to
join us here in Jamestown, as if we had not already mouths enough
to feed.
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