1639 Jamestown Settlement Requirements

In the Jamestown colony, officials pass a law requiring all settlers with over one hundred acres of land to plant orchards and gardens, and fence them in.

Ellis, Barbara W., Jane S. Keough, Judy Powell, and American Horticultural Society. North American Horticulture, a Reference Guide. (New York: Scribner, c. 1982).

Bruce, Phillip Alexander. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. (New York: MacMillan and Co. and London, 1896), 131.