Doing things such as cooking, cleaning, raising the children, entertaining other wives and children, or supervised the ones who did entertain. However, the women in Maryland worked more in the plantations, cooing, washing clothes, making soap, etc. Many of the colonial women in Maryland worked with tobacco which was much more demanding. With this being said, women differed by the kind of work they were needed to do, but were similar in the image and importance of the population of the colonist. Thus, women were just a much needed in the development of Colonial Virginia and Colonial Maryland as other people. .
As stated earlier, in 1607 one hundred and four men landed in Virginia under a charter that was approved by King James I. This charter stated that the English men that went to the New World would entrench a permanent English settlement. The men that went on the journey were known as the Virginia Company, which were primarily upscale men and their personal servants. The men in the Virginia Company had no intentions of living off of crops they produce, these men intended on living by hunting, gathering roots and berries, and trading or taking food from the Indians. Although this was their beliefs, they were very wrong. The Algonquian Indians who lived around the Chesapeake Bay did not feel generous towards the British who demanded their resources. This caused a large outbreak and a rivalry between the English and the Indians. However, the French and the Indians have a completely opposite situation than the English. When the French arrived in Maryland in 1634, they paid the Indians for their land and dealt with them as with men whose rights had a claim to respect. The French respected the Indians and the Indians respected the French; this having an effect on their day to day life. For example, the Indians kept their part of the contract as the French did. They shared their cabins with strangers and harvested crops; they also mingled with the colonist who employed their families.
