It was also ordered that every Tithable person should produce one pound of dressed hemp and one pound of dressed flax or two pounds of either annually.
"Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699"
Lyman Carrier
Confirmation of the movement towards the frontier is shown in the report to the same Assembly by the sheriffs of Isle of Wight County and Elizabeth City County, both at the mouth of the James River, that their counties were overrated in the tax lists of "Tithable" persons by thirty-eight and thirty-two persons respectively.
"Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660"
Wilcomb E. Washburn