In the early days of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, careful lists were sent back to old England by the magistrates, telling what “to provide to send to New England” in order to ensure the successful planting and tender nourishing of the new settlement. The earliest list includes such homely items as “benes and pese,” tame turkeys, copper kettles, all kinds of useful apparel and wholesome food; but the list is headed with a most significant, a typically Puritan item, _Ministers_. The list sent to the Emigration Society by the Virginian colonists might equally well have been headed, to show their most crying need, with the word _Wives_. The settlement of Virginia bore an entirely different …
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