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William Strachey, one of the first colonists, gave the following description of the native plant grown in 1616: It is not of the best kynd, it is but poore and weake, and of a byting tast, it growes not fully a yard above the ground, bearing a little yellowe flower, like to hennebane, the leaves are short and thick, somewhat round at the upper end....
He put fire under the cow, she got up and "there stood still and fell a byting of stickes larger than any man's finger and after lived and did well." Second wife of Sir Henry Cromwell, who was the grandfather of Oliver. The children were strangely inconsistent. At the first they had fits when Mother Samuel appeared.
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