woodliffe's

Updated: August 12, 2026

The promoters, one of whom was John Smith of Nibley, England, soon became dissatisfied with Woodliffe's management of the project and revoked his commission, assigning a similar commission to William Tracy. In 1620, Tracy booked fifty colonists, twelve of whom were women, to come over in the Supply.

Annie Lash Jester - Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century