Posted on 11/01/2015 11:04:00 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Archaeologists at Historic Jamestown have discovered the tenth Virginia-made pipe with a name inscribed on the stem. It’s the first new named pipe found at the site since 2009, and in contrast to most of the earlier discoveries, the name is complete: William Faldo.
The stockholders of the Virginia Company were expecting to make a quick profit from their investment in the Jamestown settlement, but the struggling colonists could barely keep themselves alive, never mind send back the riches in minerals and trade goods the company had envisioned. They weren’t even self-sufficient, having clashed with the Powhatan tribes weeks after their arrival and being saddled with a surfeit of soft-handed gentlemen rather than farmers and laborers who could have been of practical use.
In January of 1608, eight months after the founding of Jamestown, the Virginia Company sent a supply mission that was woefully short of necessary provisions but long on new colonists. At least this time there were more laborers and tradesmen than gentlemen on board. Pipemaker Robert Cotton was one of them.
Tobacco was introduced to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century but it was Sir Walter Raleigh who popularized it in England after Ralph Lane, first governor of Virginia, gave him a long-stemmed pipe and Virginia tobacco in 1586. By the time John Rolfe, future husband of Pocahontas, planted Virginia’s first commercial tobacco crop in Jamestown in 1612, smoking was widespread in England. Rolfe’s first crop was sold in London in 1614. Five years later, Jamestown was exporting 10 tons of tobacco to England a year. By 1639 it was 750 tons. . .
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Headline briefly sounded like a Unix “named pipe”; did a double-take.
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Glenn Strange, actor, best known as "Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke" was a Great (5th Great) Grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
The first cash crop grown in the new world for export to Europe was sugar(cane), then tobacco and cotton.
People that use tobacco and/or coffee work harder and their minds churn faster than those that don't.
The following example of a "unix pipe" looks a lot like the garbage that is embedded in our recent FR posts.
tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' fnord.txt | tr -cs 'a-z' '\n' | sort | uniq | comm -23 - /usr/share/dict/words
“Glenn Strange, actor, best known as “Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke” was a Great (5th Great) Grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.”
And it was the tobacco (cigarettes) that killed him.
That’s pretty silly.
The Native Americans were really good at slavery long before Columbus.
John Rolfe was my 13th great grandfather.
/johnny
And after the Europeans arrived, they would sometimes sell their prisoner/slaves to the Europeans.
And some native Americans would become owners of African slaves.
The first workers imported were indentured servants from Europe and some of the first Africans would come as indentured servants and after they worked off their debt and gained their freedom some would become slave owners.
I had the same thought.
That's only because they irritate everyone else.
Wow—that’s a lot of generations. My 4th great-grandfather was born in the late 1600s (don’t know the exact year—the parish records were destroyed in WWII), but probably my 7th or 8th great-grandfather would have been Rolfe’s contemporary.
A second 13th great-gradfather, John Price was in Jamestown at the same time. Their great grandchildren married. I am fascinated by family history research.
The Mormons have put a lot of microfilmed records online on their free site FamilySearch.org--I found at least a dozen new ancestors by searching old church records in Europe which they had microfilmed.
Bother reading a few histories of the Mayans and the Inca written before historical revisionism got popular and then we will talk.
Someone wrote a book about my Grandmother’s paternal family line in the 1960s. The surname is Colvin. It goes back to the 1300s. It ends with my mom’s generation. It was kind of weird seeing her name in a book written by a complete stranger. My uncle sure got the big head when he found out that we are royalty!
My uncle sure got the big head when he found out that we are royalty!
If you remember how things worked in the 14th Century, if you survived to child bearing age, you were probably related to royalty somehow.
My dad did his genology and he was thrilled to see that we were related to some Danish king who came to Scotland.
I laughed out loud.
I told him, “Your ancestor was raped by a Viking. Congratulations.”
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