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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38817	A direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely and for gentlemen and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and the true description of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of new Albion in North Virginia proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many yeares, shewing the particularities and excellency thereof ...	Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.	1641 (1641)	Wing E3524; ESTC R3540	5,992	10

A DIRECTION FOR ADVENTVRERS VVith small stock to get two for one and good land freely And for Gentlemen and all Servants Labourers and Artificers to live plentifully And the true Description of the healthiest pleasantest and richest plantation of new Albion in North Virginia proved by thirteen witnesses TOGETHER WITH A Letter from Master Robert Evelin that lived there many yeares shewing the particularities and excellency thereof With a briefe of the charge of victuall and necessaries to transport and buy stocke for each Planter or Labourer there to get his Master 50 l. per Annum or more in twelvetrades and at 10. l. charges onely a man Printed in the yeare 1641. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE The true description of the healthiest pleasantest and richest plantation of new Albion in North Virginia proved by 13 Witnesses WHereas that part of America or North Virginia lying about 39 degrees at Delaware Bay called the Province of new Albion is scituate in the best and same temper and as Italy betweene too cold Germany and too hot Barbary so this lying just midway betweene new England 200 miles North and Virginia 150 miles South where now are setled 100000 English and 140 ships in trade is freed from the extreame cold and barrennesse of the one and heat and aguish Marshes of the other and is like Lumbardy and a rich fat soyle plaine and having 18 Rivers on the maine land 17 great Isles and partaketh of the healthiest ayre and most excellent commodities of Europe and replenished with the goodliest woods of Oakes and all Timber for ships and Masts Mulberries for silke sweet Cypres Cedars Pines and Perres 4 sorts of Grapes for wine and Raisins and with the greatest variety of choyce fruits Fish and Fowle stored with all sorts of Corne yeelding 5. 7. and 10. quarters an Acre Silkegras salt good Mines and ●iers ware 5 sorts of Deere Buffes and huge Elkes to plow and worke all bringing 3 young at once The Vplands covered many moneths with berries rootes Chestnuts Walnuts Beach and Oake Mast to feed them Hogs and Turkeys 500 in a Flock and having neere the Colony of Manteses 400000 Acres of plaine mead land and meere levell to be flowed and fludded by that river for Corne Rice Rapes flax and hemp After 11 yeares trading and discovery there and tryall made is begunne to be planted and stored by the Governour and Company of new Albion consisting of 25 Lords Barronets Knights and Marchants who for the true informing of themselves their friends Adventurers and Partners by Residents and Traders there foure severall yeares out of their Iournall bookes namely by Captaine Browne a ship Master and Master Stafford his Mate and by Captaine Clayborn 14 years there trading and Constantine his Indian there born and bred and by Master Robert Evelin 4 yeares there yet by eight of their hands subscribed and enrolled doe testifie this to bee the true state of the Country of the Land and Delaware Bay or Charles River which is further witnessed by Captaine Smith and other bookes of Virginia and by new Englands Prospect New Canaan Captaine Powells map and other description of new England Captaine Browne Captaine Clayborne Robert Evelin Stafford Constantine Stratton Thomas White Richard Buckham Christof Thomas Edward Monmouth Tenis Palee Edward Rhodes Peter Rixford Master Evelins letter Good Madam SIr Edmund persisting still in his noble purpose to goe on with his plantation in Delaware or Charles River just midway between New England Virginia wherewith my Vncle Young and I severall yeares resided hath often informed himselfe both of mee and Master Stratton as I perceive by the hands subscribed of Eward Monmouth Tenis Pale and as Master Buckham Master White and other Ship masters and Saylors whose hands I know and it to be true that there lived and traded with mee is sufficiently instructed of the state of the Country and people there and I should very gladly according to his desire have waited on you into Hampshire to have informed your Ladyship in person had not I next weeke beene passing to Virginia But neverthelesse to satisfie you of the truth I thought good to write unto you my knowledge and first to describe you from the North side of Delaware unto Hudsons River in Sir Edmunds Patent called new Albion which lyeth just betweene New England and Maryland and that Ocean Sea I take it to bee about 160 miles I find some broken land Isles and Inlets and many small Isles at Egbay But going to Delaware Bay by Cape May which is 24 miles at most and is as I understand very well set out and printed in Captaine Powels Mappe of new England done as is told me by a draught I gave to M. Daniell the plotmaker which Sir Edmund saith you have at home on that North side about five miles within a Port or Rode for any Ships called the Nook and within it lyeth the King of Kechemeches having as I suppose about 50 men and 12 leagues higher a little above the Bay and Bar is the River of Manteses which hath 20 miles on Charles River and 30 miles running up a faire navigable deepe River all a flat levell of rich fresh and fat Blacke Marsh mould which I thinke to bee 300000 acres In this Sir Edmund intendeth as he saith to settle and there the King of Manteses hath about 100 Bow men next above about 6 leagues higher is a faire deepe river 12 miles navigable where is Free-stone and there over against is the King of Sikonesses and next is a Asomocches river King with 100 men and next is Eriwoneck a King of 40 men where we sate down and 5 miles above is the King of Ramcocke with a 100 men and 4 miles higher the King of Axion with 200 men and next to him 1● leagues overland an Inland King of Calcefar with 150. men and then there is in the middle of Charles-river two faire wooddy Isles very pleasant and fit for Parks the one of a thousand acres the other of fowerteen hundred or thereabout And six leagues higher neare a Creek called Mosilian the King having two hundred men And then wee come to the Fals made by a Rocke of Lime-stone as I suppose it is about sixty and five leagues from the Sea neare to which is an Isle fit for a Citie all materialls there to build above the River faire and navigable as the Indians informe me for I went but ten miles higher I doe account all the Indians to be eight hundred and are in severall factions and warre against the Sasque Hanocks and are all extreame fearfull of a Gun naked and unarmed against our shot swords and pikes I had some bickering with some of hem and they are of so little esteeme as I durst with fifteene men sit downe or trade in despight of them and since my return 18 Swedes are setled there and so sometime six Dutch doe in a boat trade without feare of them I saw