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The first mail-order brides were known as tobacco wives as the men who married them had to reimburse the Virginia Company with 120 pounds of good leaf tobacco .

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Fun Fact: The first mail-order brides were known as “tobacco wives” as the men who married them had to reimburse the Virginia Company with 120 pounds of “good leaf tobacco”.

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