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But Caldwell wasn't trying to be sensationalist or funny

As settler Ralph Hamor observed in 1615, When our people were fedde out of the common store and laboured jointly in the manuring of the ground, and planting corne, glad was that man that could slippe from his labour, nay the most honest of them in a generall businese, would take so much faithfull and true paines, in a weeke, as now he will doe in a day. Conditions slowly improved during the 1610s, thanks in part to the efforts of an especially enterprising colonist named John Rolfe

The sale of other tobacco products is also subject to the sales tax on general merchandise

This prompted cultivators to adopt the agrochemicals that the industry provided