Work and Play
Upon arrival in Virginia, the colonists went
immediately to work on their assigned tasks that were
supposed to make money for the Virginia Company of
London, the group of investors who were financing the
colony. Glassmen from Germany attempted to make window
glass, workers from Poland made soap ash and potash, some
colonists obtained pitch and tar from the pine trees
while others timbered to produce clapboard and other
wooden products. Some scoured the terrain in the
never-ending search for gold and other precious
metals.
But life was not all work for the colonists. Objects
reflecting their leisure time activities have also been
found by the archaeologists.
