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Show Page 234 food we must grow ourselves. When I think of how hard we must work simply to gain enough food to live from harvest to harvest, much less obtain enough to tide us over times of hardship such as these, my blood runs hot. The abandoned plantations are to be replanted as soon as possible, Martin's Hundred included. Glad I am of that, for as James Towne grows more and more crowded, I long for the peace and emptiness of Wolstenholme Towne, though it holds many unhappy memories for me now. The Indians will not be a worry should we decide to return to Martin ' s Hundred. As many have been killed since the massacre as died in all the years since the colony was seated in 1607. Though few are now around to do us harm, the Company urges the extermination of those who yet live, and offers rewards for their taking, an especially fine reward for anyone who captures or kills Opechancanough himself. The children are to be made into servants. Better the l i t t l e ones should be left in peace, for this would only give us more hungry mouths to feed. At least the one hundred fifty new settlers that came on the Abigail brought enough provisions to sustain them for a time, for which we are thankful. Lady Wyatt was amongst thoee on board, so now the governor has his wife with him. Also aboard was a Lieutenant Parkinson, who was sent by the Adventurers of Martin's Hundred to replace Richard. How soon he and his men will travel |