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A12461	The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Barra, John, ca. 1574-1634, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 22790; ESTC S111882	354,881	269

t' were to goe to bed or drinke And all thou yet hast done thou dost esteeme As nothing This doth cause me thinke That thou I 'aue seene so oft approu'd in dangers And thrice captiu'd thy valour still hath freed Art yet preserued to conuert those strangers By God thy guide I trust it is decreed For me I not commend but much admire Thy England yet vnknowne to passers by-her For it will praise it selfe in spight of me Thou it it thou to all posterity Your true friend and souldier Ed. Robinson To my honest Captaine the Author MAlignant Times What can be said or done But shall be censur'd and traduc't by some This worthy Worke which thou hast bought so deare Ne thou nor it Detractors need to feare Thy words by deeds so long thou hast approu'd Of thousands know thee not thou art belou'd And this great Plot will make thee ten times more Knowne and belou'd than ere thou wert before I neuer knew a Warrier yet but thee From wine Tobacco debts dice oaths so free I call thee Warrier and I make the bolder For many a Captaine now was neuer Souldier Some such may swell at this but to their praise When they haue done like thee my Muse shall raise Their due deserts to Worthies yet to come To liue like thine admir'd till day of Doome Your true friend sometimes your souldier Tho. Carlton NEW ENGLAND The most remarqueable parts thus named by the high and mighty Prince CHARLES Prince of great Britaine THE PORTRAICTUER OF CAPTAYNE IOHN SMITH ADMIRALL OF NEW ENGLAND These are the Lines that shew thy Face but those That shew thy Grace and Glory brighter bee Thy Faire-Discoueries and Fowle-Overthrowes Of Salvages much Civilliz'd by thee Best shew thy Spirit and to it Glory Wyn So thou art Brasse without but Golde within If so in Brasse too soft Smiths Acts to beare I fix thy Fame to make Brasse steele out weare Thine as thou art Virtues Go●●● Dauies Heref HONY S OIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A Scale of Leagues Observed and described by Captayn John Smith 1614 London Printed by Geor Low THE SIXTH BOOKE THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF NEW-ENGLAND COncerning this History you are to vnderstand the Letters-Patents granted by his Maiesty in 1606. for the limitation of Virginia did extend from 34. to 44. which was diuided in two parts namely the first Colony and the second the first was to the honourable City of London and such as would aduenture with them to discouer and take their choice where they would betwixt the degrees of 34. and 41. The second was appropriated to the Cities of Bristol Exeter and Plimoth c. and the West parts of England and all those that would aduenture and ioine with them and they might make their choise any where betwixt the degrees of 38. and 44. prouided there should bee at least 100. miles distance betwixt these 2. Colonies each of which had lawes priuileges and authoritie for the gouernment and aduancing their seuerall Plantations alike Now this part of America hath formerly beene called Norumbega Virginia Nuskoncus Penaquida Cannada and such other names as those that ranged the Coast pleased But because it was so mountainous rocky and full of Iles few haue aduentured much to trouble it but as is formerly related notwithstanding that honourable Patron of vertue Sir Iohn Popham Lord chiefe Iustice of England in the yeere 1606. procured meanes and men to possesse it and sent Captaine George Popham for President Captaine Rawley Gilbert for Admirall Captaine Edward Harlow master of the Ordnance Captaine Robert Dauis Sargeant-Maior Captaine Elis Best Marshall Master Seaman Secretary Captaine Iames Dauis to be Captaine of the Fort Master Gome Carew chiefe Searcher all those were of the Councell who with some hundred more were to stay in the Country they set saile from Plimoth the last of May and fell with Monahigan the eleuenth of August At Sagadahock 9. or 10. leagues southward they planted themselues at the mouth of a faire nauigable Riuer but the coast all thereabouts most extreme stony and rocky that extreme frozen Winter was so cold they could not range nor search the Country and their prouision so small they were glad to send all but 45. of their company backe againe their noble President Captaine Popham died and not long after arriued two ships well prouided of all necessaries to supply them and some small time after another by whom vnderstanding of the death of the Lord chiefe Iustice and also of Sir Iohn Gilbert whose lands there the President Rawley Gilbert was to possesse according to the aduenturers directions finding nothing but extreme extremities they all returned for England in the yeere 1608. and thus this Plantation was begunne and ended in one yeere and the Country esteemed as a cold barren mountainous rocky Desart Notwithstanding the right Honourable Henry Earle of South-hampton and those of the I le of Wight imploied Captaine Edward Harlow to discouer an I le supposed about Cape Cod but they found their plots had much abused them for falling with Monahigan they found onely Cape Cod no I le but the maine there they detained three Saluages aboord them called Pechmo Monopet and Pekenimne but Pechmo leapt ouer board and got away and not long after with his consorts cut their Boat from their sterne got her on shore and so filled her with sand and guarded her with Bowes and Arrowes the English lost her not farre from thence they had three men sorely wounded with Arrowes Anchoring at the I le of Nohone the Saluages in their Canowes assaulted the Ship till the English Guns made them retire yet here they tooke Sakaweston that after he had liued many yeeres in England went a Souldier to the warres of Bohemia At Capawo they tooke Coneconam and Epenow but the people at Agawom vsed them kindly so with fiue Saluages they returned for England yet Sir Francis Popham sent diuers times one Captaine Williams to Monahigan onely to trade and make core fish but for any Plantations there was no more speeches For all this as I liked Virginia well though not their proceedings so I desired also to see this country and spend some time in trying what I could finde for all those ill rumors and disasters From the relations of Captaine Edward Harlow and diuers others In the month of Aprill 1614. at the charge of Capt. Marmaduke Roydon Capt. George Langam Mr. Iohn Buley and Mr. William Skelton with two ships from London I chanced to arriue at Monahigan an I le of America in 434. of Northerly latitude out plot was there to take Whales for which we had one Samuel Cramton and diuers others expert in that faculty also to make trialls of a Mine of gold copper if those failed Fish and Furs were then our refuge to make our selues sauers howsoeuer we found this Whale-fishing a costly conclusion we saw many and spent much time in chasing them but could not

carpet of the earth and withall shall marke how the heauens heare the earth and the earth the Corne and Oile and they relieue the necessities of man that man will acknowledge Gods infinite Prouidence But hee that shall further obserue how God inclineth all casuall euents to worke the necessary helpe of his Saints must needs adore the Lords infinite goodnesse neuer had any people more iust cause to cast themselues at the very foot-●toole of God and to reuerence his mercie than this distressed Colonie for if God had not sent Sir Thomas Gates from the Bermudas within foure daies they had almost beene famished if God had not directed the heart of that noble Knight to saue the Fort from fiering at their shipping for many were very importunate to haue burnt it they had beene destitute of a present harbour and succour if they had abandoned the Fort any longer time and had not so soone returned questionlesse the Indians would haue destroied the Fort which had beene the meanes of our safeties amongst them and a terror If they had set saile sooner and had lanched into the vast Ocean who would haue promised they should haue incountered the Fleet of the Lord la Ware especially when they made for New found land as they intended a course contrarie to our Nauie approaching If the Lord la Ware had not brought with him a yeeres prouision what comfort would those poore soules haue receiued to haue beene relanded to a second distruction This was the arme of the Lord of Hosts who would haue his people passe the red Sea and Wildernesse and then to possesse the land of Canaan It was diuinely sp●ken of Heathen Socrates If God for man be carefull why should man bee ouer-distrustfull for he hath so tempered the contrary qualities of the Elements That neither cold things want heat nor moist things dry Nor sad things spirits to quicken them thereby Yet make they musicall content of contrarietie Which conquer'd knits them in such links together They doe produce euen all this whatsoeuer The Lord Gouernour after mature deliberation deliuered some few words to the Companie laying iust blame vpon them for their haughtie vanities and sluggish idlenesse earnestly intreating them to amend those desperate follies lest hee should be compelled to draw the sword of Iustice and to cut off such delinquents which he had rather draw to the shedding of his vitall bloud to protect them from iniuries heartning them with relation of that store hee had brought with him constituting officers of all conditions to rule ouer them allotting euery man his particular place to watch vigilantly and worke painfully This Oration and direction being receiued with a generall applause you might shortly behold the idle and restie diseases of a diuided multitude by the vnitie and authoritie of this gouernment to be substantially cured Those that knew not the way to goodnesse before but cherished singularitie and faction can now chalke out the path of all respectiue dutie and seruice euery man endeuoureth to outstrip other in diligence the French preparing to plant the Vines the English labouring in the Woods and grounds euery man knoweth his charge and dischargeth the same with alacritie Neither let any man be discouraged by the relation of their daily labour as though the sap of their bodies should bee spent for other mens profit the setled times of working to effect all themselues or as the Aduenturers need desire required no more paines than from six of the clocke in the morning vntill ten and from two in the afternoone till foure at both which times they are prouided of spirituall and corporall reliefe First they enter into the Church and make their praiers vnto God next they returne to their houses and receiue their proportion of food Nor should it bee conceiued that this businesse excludeth Gentlemen whose breeding neuer knew what a daies labour meant for though they cannot digge vse the Spade nor practice the Axe yet may the staied spirits of any condition finde how to imploy the force of knowledge the exercise of counsell the operation and power of their best breeding and qualities The houses which are built are as warme and defensiue against wind and weather as if they were tiled and slated being couered aboue with strong boards and some matted round with Indian mats Our forces are now such as are able to tame the furie and trecherie of the Saluages Our Forts assure the Inhabitants and frustrate all assaylants And to leaue no discouragement in the heart of any who personally shall enter into this great action I will communicate a double comfort first Sir George Sommers that worthy Admirall hath vndertaken a dangerous aduenture for the good of the Colonie Vpon the 15. of Iune accompanied with Captaine Samuel Argall hee returned in two Pinaces vnto the Bermudas promising if by any meanes God will open a way to that Iland of Rocks that he would soone returne with six moneths prouision of flesh with much crosse weather at last hee there safely arriued but Captaine Argall was forced backe againe to Iames towne whom the Lord De la Ware not long after sent to the Riuer of Patawomeke to trade for Corne where finding an English boy one Henry Spilman a young Gentleman well descended by those people preserued from the furie of Powhatan by his acquaintance had such good vsage of those kinde Saluages that they fraughted his ship with Corne wherewith he returned to Iames towne The other comfort is that the Lord la Ware hath built two new Forts the one called Fort Henry the other Fort Charles in honour of our most noble Prince and his hopefull brother vpon a pleasant plaine and neare a little Riuilet they call Southampton Riuer they stand in a wholsome aire hauing plentie of Springs of sweet water they command a great circuit of ground containing Wood Pasture and Marsh with apt places for Vines Corne and Gardens in which Forts it is resolued that all those that come out of England shall be at their first landing quartered that the wearisomnesse of the Sea may bee refreshed in this pleasing part of the Countrie and Sir Thomas Gates hee sent for England But to correct some iniuries of the Paspahegs he sent Captaine Pearcie Master Stacy and fiftie or threescore shot where the Saluages flying they burnt their houses tooke the Queene and her children prisoners whom not long after they slew The fertilitie of the soile the temperature of the climate the forme of gouernment the condition of our people their daily inuocating of the Name of God being thus expressed why should the successe by the rules of mortall iudgement bee disparaged why should not the rich haruest of our hopes be seasonably expected I dare say that the resolution of Caesar in France the designes of Alexander the discoueries of Hernando Cortes in the West and of Emanuel King of Portugal in the East were not encouraged vpon so firme grounds of state and

duties of Iustices of Peace within their limits The subordinate Officers to these in euery tribe are the Constables Head-borowes and Church-wardens these are the triers of the Tobacco which if they allow not to be marchantable is burnt and these are the executioners of their ciuill and politicke causes For points of warre and martiall affaires they haue the Gouernour for Lieutenant generall the Sergeant maior Master of Ordinance Captaines of Companies Captaines of Forts with their seuerall officers to traine and exercise those numbers vnder their charge in martiall discipline Concerning their Courts for decision of right and iustice the first though last in constitution is their generall assembly allowed by the state in England in the nature of a Parliament consisting of about forty persons viz. the Gouernour the Counsell the Bailiffes of the tribes and two Burgesses of each tribe chosen by voyces in the tribe besides such of the Clergie as the Gouernour thinkes most fit to be held once a yeere as you shall heare more thereof hereafter The next Court is the Assise or Iayles of deliuerie held twice euery yeere in Christmas and Whitson weeke for all criminall offenders and ciuill causes betwixt party and party as actions of debt trespasse battery slander and the like and these are determined by a Iury of twelue men and aboue them is also a grand Iury to examine matters of greater consequence The last day of the Assise might also well be held a Court for hearing the trangressions in matters of contempt mis-behauiour towards any Magistrate riots seditious speakers contemners of warrants and such like there are also as occasion shall require many matters heard by the Gouernor or his Officers and oft iustice done in seuerall places but those are but as daies of hearing and as preparatiues against their Courts c. At this last Assize eighteene were arrained for criminall causes a number very extraordinary considering the place but now occasioned by reason of the hard yeere and the store of ill chosen new commers of these some were censured to the whipping post some burned in the hand but two were condemned to die yet the one was reprieued the other hanged this done euery man returned to his home many trials they made againe about the Warwicke but to small purpose her Ordnance being lashed so fast they could not be vnloosed till the ropes and decks were rotten yet some few buttes of beare being storie they got which though it had lien six moneths vnder water was very good notwithstanding the next yeere they recouered fiue peeces of Ordnance Vpon the first of August according to the Companies instructions from England began the generall assembly at the towne of Saint George which was the first these Iles euer had consisting as is said of the Gouernour Councell Bailiffes and Burgesses and a Secretarie to whom all bils were presented and by him openly read in the house also a Clerke to record the Acts being thirty two in all fifteene of which being sent into England were by a generall consent receiued and enacted the titles whereof are these following as for all the reasons for them they would be too tedious to recite The first was against the vniust sale and letting of apprentises and other seruants and this was especially for the righting the vndertakers in England The second concerning the disposing of aged diseased and impotent persons for it being considered how carelesse many are in preferring their friends or sending sometimes any they can procure to goe such vnseruiceable people should be returned back at their charge that sent them rather then be burdensome to the poore Inhabitants in the Iles. The third the necessary manning the Kings Castle being the key of the I le that a garison of twelue able men should bee there alwaies resident and 3000. eares of corne and 1000. pounds of Tobacco payed them by the generality yeerely as a pension The fourth against the making vnmarchantable Tobacco and Officers sworne to make true trials burne that was naught The fist inioyned the erection of certaine publike bridges and the maintenance of them The sixt for a continuall supply of victuall for all the Forts to bee preserued till some great occasion to vse it The seuenth was for two fixed dayes euery yeere for the Assises The eight commands the making of high-waies and prohibiting the passage ouer mens grounds and planted fields as well to preuent the spoyling of gardens as conueniencie to answer any alarum The ninth for the preseruing young tortoises and birds that were carelesly destroyed The tenth prouided against vagabonds prohibited the entertainement of other mens seruants The eleuenth compelled the setting of a due quantity of corne for euery family The twelfth the care corne being set enioyned the keeping vp of their poultry till it was past their reaches The thirteenth for the preseruation of sufficient fences against the selling of marked trees appointed for bounds The fourteenth granted to a leuy for a thousand pound weight of Tobacco towards the payment of publike workes as the bridges and the mount The fifteenth for the enioyning an acknowledgement and acception of all resident Gouernours and the warranting him to continue though his time be expired till the arriuall of a legitimate successor from England to preuent all vomeet and presumptuous elections besides it was desired by petition in England the new Gouernous should liue two months as a priuate man after his arriuall if his predecessor did stay so long the better to learne and obserue his course And these are the contents of those fifteene Acts applied as you may perceiue which the lawes of England could not take notice of because euery climate hath somewhat to it selfe in that kinde in particular for otherwise as it is conceiued it had beene a high impudency and presumption to haue medled with them or indeed with any such as these lawes that had with such great iudgement and iustice alwaies prouided for No sooner was this businesse ouer but the Magazin ship is discouered and that night came into the Harbour but in a very weake and sickly case hauing cast ouer board twenty or thirty of her people and so violent was the infection that the most part of the failers as well as passengers were so sicke or dismaid or both that the Master confessed had they stayed at the Sea but a weeke longer they had all perished There arriued with this ship diuers Gentlemen of good fashion with their wiues and families but many of them crasie by the tediousnesse of the voyage howsoeuer most of them by the excellent salubrity of the aire then which the world hath not a better soone after recouered yet some there were that died presently after they got ashore it being certainly the quality of the place either to kill or cure quickly as the bodies are more or lesse corrupted By this ship the Company sent a supply of ten persons for the

chiefe wood of which there is great difference in regard of the soyle where it groweth Firre Pine Wall-nut Chesse-nut Birtch Ash Elme Cipris Cedar Mulbery Plum tree Hazell Saxefras and many other sorts Eagles Grips diuers sorts of Hawkes Craines Geese Brants Cormorants Ducks Cranes Swannes Sheldrakes Teale Meawes Gulls Turkies Diue-doppers and many other sorts whose names I know not Whales Grompus Porkpisces Turbut Sturgion Cod Hake Haddocke Cole Cuske or small Ling Sharke Mackarell Herring Mullit Base Pinnacks Cunners Pearch Eeles Crabs Lobsters Mustels Wilks Oisters Clamps Periwinkels and diuers others c. Moos a beast bigger than a Stag Deare red and fallow Beuers Wol●es Foxes both blacke and other Aroughcunds wilde Cats Beares O●t●rs M●●tins Fitches Musquassus and diuers other sorts of Vermin whose names I kn●w not all these and diuers other good things doe here for want of vse still increase and decrease with little diminution whereby they grow to that abundance you shall scarce finde any bay shallow shore or Coue of sand where you may not take many clamps or Lobsters or both at your pleasure and in many places load your Boat if you please nor Iles where you finde not Fruits Birds Crabs and Mi●stels or all of them for taking at a low water Cod Cuske Hollibut Scare Turbut Mackarell or such like are taken plentifully in diuers sandy Bayes store of Mullit Bases and diuers other sorts of such excellent fish as many as their Net can hold no Riuer where there is not plenty of Sturgion or Salmon or both all which are to be had in abundance obseruing but their seasons but if a man will goe at Christmas to gather Cherries in Kent though there be plenty in Summer he may be deceiued so here these plenties haue each their seasons as I hau● expressed we for the most part had little but bread and Vinegar and though the most part of Iuly when the fishing decayed they wrought all day lay abroad in the Iles all night and liued on what they found yet were not sicke But I would wish none long put himselfe to such plunges except necessity constraine it yet worthy is that person to starue that here cannot liue if he haue sense strength and health for there is no such penury of these blessings in any place but that one hundred men may in two or three houres make their prouisions for a day and he that hath experience to manage these affaires with forty or thirty honest industrious men might well vndertake if they dwell in these parts to subiect the Saluages and feed daily two or three hundred men with as good Corne Fish and Flesh as the earth hath of those kinds and yet make that labour but their pleasure prouided that they haue Engines that be proper for their purposes Who can desire more content that hath small meanes or but onely his merit to aduance his fortunes then to tread and plant that ground he hath purchased by the hazard of his life if hee haue but the taste of vertue and magnanimity what to such a minde can bee more pleasant then planting and building a foundation for his posterity got from the rude earth by Gods blessing and his owne industry without preiudice to any if hee haue any graine of faith or zeale in Religion what can he doe lesse hurtfull to any or more agreeable to God then to seeke to conuert those poore Saluages to know Christ and humanity whose labours with discretion will triple require thy charge and paine what so truly sutes with honour and honesty as the discouering things vnknowne erecting Townes peopling Countries informing the ignorant reforming things vniust teaching vertue and gaine to our natiue mother Country a Kingdome to attend her finde imploiment for those that are idle because they know not what to doe so farre from wronging any as to cause posterity to remember thee and remembring thee euer honour that remembrance with praise Consider what were the beginnings and endings of the Monarchies of the Chaldeans the Syrians the Grecians and Romans but this one rule what was it they would not doe for the good of their common weale or their mother City For example Rome what made her such a Monarchesse but onely the aduentures of her youth not in riots at home but in dangers abroad and the iustice and iudgement out of their experiences when they grew aged what was their ruine and hurt but this the excesse of idlenesse the fondnesse of parents the want of experience in Maiestrates the admiration of their vndeserued honours the contempt of true merit their vniust iealousies their politike incredulities their hypocriticall seeming goodnesse and their deeds of secret lewdnesse finally in fine growing onely formall temporists all that their Predecessors got in many yeeres they lost in a few daies those by their paines and vertues became Lords of the world they by their case and vices became slaues to their seruants this is the difference betwixt the vse of armes in the field and on the monuments of stones the golden age and the leaden age prosperity and misery iustice and corruption substance and shadowes words and deeds experience and imagination making common weales and marring common weales the fruits of vertue and the conclusions of vice Then who would liue at home idly or thinke in himselfe any worth to liue onely to eat drinke and sleepe and so die or by consuming that carelesly his friends got worthily or by vsing that miserably that maintained vertue honestly or for being descended nobly and pine with the vaine va●nt of great kindred in penury or to maintaine a silly shew of brauery toile out thy heart soule and time basely by shifts tricks Cards and Dice or by relating newes of other mens actions sharke here and there for a dinner or supper deceiue thy friends by faire promises and dissimulation in borrowing where thou neuer meanest to pay offend the Lawes surfet with excesse burthen thy Countrie abuse thy selfe despaire in want and then cousen thy Kindred yea euen thy owne brother and wish thy Parents death I will not say damnation to haue their estates though thou seest what honours and rewards the world yet hath for them that will seeke them and worthily deserue them I would bee sorry to offend or that any should mistake my honest meaning for I wish good to all hurt to none but rich men for the most part are growne to that dotage through their pride in their wealth as though there were no accident could end it or their life And what hellish care doe such take to make it their owne misery and their Countries spoile especially when there is most need of their imploiment drawing by all manner of inuentions from the Prince and his honest Subiects euen the vitall spirits of their powers and estates as if their baggs or brags were so powerfull a defence the malicious could not assault them when they are the onely bait to cause vs