” Records of Rappahannock County, vol. 1663-1668, p. 85, Va. State Library. The following entries in the county records will further show the intimacy of the connection between Virginia and Barbadoes in this age: … Nicholas Ware of Rappahannock County “acknowledges himself bound to John Vassall of Barbados in 17,234 lbs. tobacco.” Original vol. 1656-1664, p. 274.

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Economic History of Virginia in the 17th Century, Vol. 2, by Phillip Alexander Bruce, 1896, page 327