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 * I mention that you are WP:SOAP and you delete it here then you show up and revert an edit [ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Assault_rifle&diff=prev&oldid=923491481 here] all within minutes of each other, from all appearances this is [WP:STALK} and from an experienced editor at that.Oh yeh I indicated the wrong edit in my summary,  but did delete the correct edit.~

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Virginia
The first English settlement in America, was established in 1607, at Jamestown in what is now Virginia. The first women to arrive in Jamestown, (known in the ship's manifest as) Mistress Forrest, wife of Thomas Forrest, Esq and her fourteen-year-old maid, Anne Burras, arrived in late 1608. In December 1608 Anne Burras married a carpenter and laborer named John Laydon in the first wedding ceremony held in Jamestown, and in 1609 they had a child named Virginia Laydon (not to be confused with Virginia Dare), who was the first child born in Jamestown. The first American slaves since those in Lucas Vasquez de Allyon's unsuccessful colony in 1526–1527 were brought to Jamestown in 1619. These slaves were from the Caribbean, and there were twenty of them, including three women.

Also in 1619, 90 young single women from England went to Jamestown to become wives of the men there, with the women being auctioned off for 150 pounds of tobacco each (to be paid to the shipping company), as that was the cost of each woman's travel to America. Such voyagers were often called "tobacco brides". There were many such voyages to America for this purpose (the 1619 voyage being the first), with the tobacco brides promised free passage and trousseaus for their trouble.

During the early 17th Century the status of women was the same as in England and they were not  granted the legal privilege of exercising property rights. The British institutions of primogeniture, dowry, coverture, and widowhood governed this suppression of women’s rights.Under the common law, with King James, women had no rights at all. Custom and Aristocratic women found ways around these restrictions. With the settlement of the British colony of Virginia, it was expected that the patriarchal common law would rule colonial society.A wealthy widow found  that she needed a male family member. Whether it was for personal protection or law it was imperative that a widow remarry as soon as socially acceptable. Her options, however, were limited to her social class, which produced limited choices if she was “of quality”.


 * There was such a shortage of suitable women for the upper class that upper class men would try to bring their unmarried sisters over. The Virginia Company set about procuring wives for the tenants of the plantation by offering to each woman who migrated to Virginia a dowry of clothing, linens, furnishings and a plot of land. The younger women who were chosen were of a lower social order but selected for their good character. About 189 maids and one widow were selected and shipped to Virginia, at a cost of 150 pounds of tobacco each or £12, about $5,000 in 2018 US dollars for tobacco. The prospective husband had to pay the transportation.
 * The first sign of change came with the Jordan-Pooley-Farrar affair. in 1623 Immediately following the death of Samuel Jordan, Reverend Greville Pooley made a proposal of marriage to his widow Cecily Jordan.  His advances were apparently not welcomed by Cecily  who was then pregnant with her deceased husband's  child.  Pooley claimed however that his offer had been accepted, and complained to the company, seeking to hold her to what he claimed was her promise.  The ensuing case provides insight into changing attitudes toward marriage in English law and society in the early modern period for this was the first instance in which a women became the defendant in a Breach of Promise Case..The Virginia company referred the case to a court, but before it could go to trial. Rev Pooley found a wife and withdrew his complaint..
 * The woman's life in Colonial America was different from that of her English sisters. While English women, cleaned, cooked, mended clothes and cared for children and the garden. Colonial women, depending on class had different responsibilities. English gentry wives managed hired servants. Virginia gentry wives performed the same duties but had to manage slaves, who may not have been able to speak English. The wives of commoners spun their own clothes, churned the butter, helped guard the home with firearms, and helped with the farm be they crop animal or vegetable.
 * Property Rights varied state to state. Virginia eventually permitted women to own property and before the 18th Century began, widows were writing wills and bestowing property on children and grandchildren. In other cases like Connecticut women had no property rights. Other colonies gave wives the right to Private Examination. where a husband was required to get his wife's signature before he could convey her property in the marriage. Virginia gave women the right to challenge male descendants in court.
 * Property Rights varied state to state. Virginia eventually permitted women to own property and before the 18th Century began, widows were writing wills and bestowing property on children and grandchildren. In other cases like Connecticut women had no property rights. Other colonies gave wives the right to Private Examination. where a husband was required to get his wife's signature before he could convey her property in the marriage. Virginia gave women the right to challenge male descendants in court.

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The Bristol/Exeter/Plymouth company came of naught. They never established a plantation. The Puritans who landed at Plymouth were on their way to Jamestown, when they ran out of potable liquids, which in those days was an alcoholic brew, mead or beer, and made out of all kinds of vegetables And decided to stay. .The early colonialists made alcohol beverages from, among other things, carrots, tomatoes, onions, beets, celery, squash, corn silk, dandelions, and goldenrod. The existence of the New England  colony  was recognized with the (New England) Charter of 1620, and finally a separate existence with the Massachusetts Bay Charter of 1629



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"From this point on, the meetings of the Company were held at the “Big House.” The Ferrar mansion at St. Scythe’s Lane, where ‘Mr. Farrer, the father, from his singular affection for that Houourable Company, himself being one of the first adventurers on that plantation, and the Somers Islands, allowed them the use of his great hall, and other best rooms of his house, to hold their weekly and daily meetings.’ The new officers speedily put matters on a more businesslike footing, and kept regular records of their proceedings. Several early writers on the Farrers state “nobody who is familiar with the literary style of John Farrer and his brother can fail at every turn to recognize their handiwork."