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A14803	A declaration of the state of the colony and affaires in Virginia With a relation of the barbarous massacre in the time of peace and league, treacherously executed by the natiue infidels vpon the English, the 22 of March last. Together with the names of those that were then massacred; that their lawfull heyres, by this notice giuen, may take order for the inheriting of their lands and estates in Virginia. And a treatise annexed, written by that learned mathematician Mr. Henry Briggs, of the Northwest passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia, and by Fretum Hudson. Also a commemoration of such worthy benefactors as haue contributed their Christian charitie towards the aduancement of the colony. And a note of the charges of necessary prouisions fit for euery man that intends to goe to Virginia. Published by authoritie.	Waterhouse, Edward, colonist.; Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630.; Virginia Company of London. Inconveniencies that have happened to some persons which have transported themselves from England to Virginia, without provisions necessary to sustaine themselves, hath greatly hindred the progresse of that noble plantation.	1622 (1622)	STC 25104; ESTC S111598	27,991	65

a piece   03 04 One grindlestone 4. s.   04 00 Nailes of all sorts to the value of 02 00   Two Pickaxes   03             06 02 08         For a family of 6. persons and so for more or lesse after the rate Houshold Implements One Iron Pot 00 07   One kettle   06   One large frying-pan   02 06 One gridiron   01 06 Two skillets   05   One spit   02   Platters dishes spoones of wood   04     01 08 00 For Suger Spice and fruit and at Sea for 6. men 00 12 06 So the full charge of Apparrell Victuall Armes Tooles and houshold stuffe and after this rate for each person will amount vnto about the summe of 12 10   The passage of each man is 06 00   The fraight of these prouisions for a man will bee about halfe a Tun which is 01 10   So the whole charge will amount to about 20 00 00 Nets bookes lines and a tent must be added if the number of people be greater as also some kine And this is the vsuall proportion that the Virginia Company doe bestow vpon their Tenants which they send Whosoeuer transports himselfe or any other at his owne charge vnto Virginia shall for each person so transported before Midsummer 1625. haue to him and his heires for euer fifty Acres of Land vpon a first and fifty Acres vpon a second diuision Imprinted at London by FELIX KYNGSTON 1622. A DECLARATION of the state of the Colonie and Affaires in VIRGINIA With a Relation of the barbarous Massacre in the time of peace and League treacherously executed vpon the English by the natiue Infidels 22 March last ALthough there haue been many and sundry Treatises writ of Virginia and the Commodities thereof whereat malitious men may take occasion to cauill but godly men will finde good cause to praise the Almighty whose wonders are seene in the deepe through the which we haue sailed to the discouery of this good Land Yet I haue not thought it amisse since I am to expresse some late Accidents before-hand to summe vp the benefits of that Countrey partly because they daily encrease by new Discoueries made to the glory of our most gratious King and euer renowned to all posteritie for the founding and supporting of this most Royall and blessed work of Plantation to the great honor wealth and happinesse of his most famous Kingdomes and partly because such is the customary daintinesse of Readers that they seldome take the paines to gather together all that hath beene written of any subiect that so they might take the whole businesse into their consideration which is the onely way to make a true iudgement but vsually content themselues with one or two Bookes set out occasionally and with reference to some former Treatises whereby they gaine but a lame and parcell-knowledge and so oftentimes both preiudice themselues and the truth THE Countrey called VIRGINIA so named by the late Virgin-Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory being the rightfull inheritance of his Maiesty as being first discouered at the costs and charges of that most prudent Prince of famous memory King Henry the Seauenth his Maiesties great Grand-father The Patent whereof still extant to be seene was granted to Iohn Cabot and diuers other of his subiects who went thither with sixe Saile of Ships and discouered as farre as from Cape Florida to New-found-land all along the Coast and tooke possession thereof to the Kings vse about that time when Ferdinando and Isabella discouered the Westerne Indies by which title of first discouery the King of Portugal and Spaine hold and enioy their ample and rich Kingdomes in their Indies East West A coast where King Edward the Sixt after planted his fishing to the New-found-land by publike Act in Parliament and of which Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlow tooke againe possession to the vse of the late Qu●ene Elizabeth and after them Sir Richard Greenfield Sir Ralph Lane and Sir Walter Rawleigh at what time seuerall Colonies were there placed And since his Maiesties most happy comming to the Crowne being an absolute King of three of the most populous Kingdomes which Charles the Fift was wont to tearme Officina gentium the shop or forge of men finding his Subiects to multiply by the blessed peace they enioy vnder his happy gouernment did out of his high wisedome and Princely care of the good of his Subiects grant a most gratious Patent to diuers Honourable persons and others of his louing Subiects authorizing them thereby to goe on in the Plantation of this his lawfull and rightfull Kingdome of VIRGINIA which by the blessing of Almighty God is growne to good perfection THis spatious and fruitful Country of VIRGINIA is as is generally knowne to all naturally rich and exceedingly well watered very temperate and healthfull to the Inhabitants abounding with as many naturall blessings and replenished with as goodly Woods and those full of Deere and sundry other beasts for mans sustenance and the Seas and Riuers thereof many therein being exceeding fayre and nauigable as full of excellent fish of diuers sorts and both water land yeelding as great variety of fowle as any Country in the world is knowne to afford The situation whereof being neere the middest of the world betweene the extremities of heate and colde seemes to partake of the benefits of both and therby becometh capable of the richest commodities of most parts of the Earth From whence ariseth an assurance that by the assistance and skill of industry those rich Furres Cordage and other Commodities which with difficulty and danger are now drawn from Russia will be had in VIRGINIA and the parts adioyning with ease and safety And the Masts Plancks and Boards the Pitch and Tarre the Pot-ashes and Sope-ashes the Hempe and Flaxe which now are fetched from Norway Denmarke Poland and Germany will there be had in abundance The Iron which hath so wasted our English Woods that it selfe in short time must decay together with them is to be had in VIRGINIA where wasting of Woods is an ease and benefit to the Planter for all good conditions answerable to the best Iron of the world whereof proofe hath beene made The Wines Fruits and Salt of France and Spaine the Silkes of Persia and Italy will be had also in VIRGINIA in no kinde of worth inferiour where are whole Woods of many miles together of Mulberry trees of the best kindes the proper food of the Silke-worme and a multitude of other naturall commodities Of Woods Roots and Berries for excellent Dyes of Plants and other Drugs for Physicall seruice of sweet Woods Oyles and Gummes for pleasure and other vse of Cotton-wooll Silke-grasse and Sugar Canes will there be had in abundance with many other kindes And for Corne Cattell and Fish which are the substance of the food of man in no place better the Graine also of our owne Country prospering

that in time we by our growing continually vpon them would dispossesse them of this Country as they had beene formerly of the West Indies by the Spaniard produced this bloody act That neuer griefe and shame possessed any people more then themselues to be thus butchered by so naked and cowardly a people who dare not stand the presentment of a staffe in manner of a Peece nor an vncharged Peece in the hands of a woman from which they flye as so many Hares much faster then from their tormenting Deuill whom they worship for feare though they acknowledge they loue him not THus haue you seene the particulars of this massacre out of Letters from thence written wherein treachery and cruelty haue done their worst to vs or rather to themselues for whose vnderstanding is so shallow as not to perceiue that this must needs bee for the good of the Plantation after and the losse of this blood to make the body more healthfull as by these reasons may be manifest First Because betraying of innocency neuer rests vnpunished And therefore Agesilaus when his enemies vpon whose oath of being faithfull hee rested had deceiued him he sent them thankes for that by their periury they had made God his friend and their enemy Secondly Because our hands which before were tied with gentlenesse and faire vsage are now set at liberty by the treacherous violence of the Sauages not vntying the Knot but cutting it So that we who hitherto haue had possession of no more ground then their waste and our purchase at a valuable consideration to their owne contentment gained may now by right of Warre and law of Nations inuade the Country and destroy them who sought to destroy vs whereby wee shall enioy their cultiuated places turning the laborious Mattocke into the victorious Sword wherein there is more both ease benefit and glory and possessing the fruits of others labours Now their cleared grounds in all their villages which are situate in the fruitfullest places of the land shall be inhabited by vs whereas heretofore the grubbing of woods was the greatest labour Thirdly Because those commodities which the Indians enioyed as much or rather more then we shall now also be entirely possessed by vs. The Deere and other beasts will be in safety and infinitly increase which heretofore not onely in the generall huntings of the King whereat foure or fiue hundred Deere were vsually slaine but by each particular Indian were destroied at all times of the yeare without any difference of Male Damme or Young The like may be said of our owne Swine and Goats whereof they haue vsed to kill eight in tenne more then the English haue done There will be also a great increase of wild Turkies and other waighty Fowle for the Indians neuer put difference of destroying the Hen but kill them whether in season or not whether in breeding time or sitting on their egges or hauing new hatched it is all one to them whereby as also by the orderly vsing of their fishing Weares no knowne Country in the world will so plentifully abound in victuall Fourthly Because the way of conquering them is much more easie then of ciuilizing them by faire meanes for they are a rude barbarous and naked people scattered in small companies which are helps to Victorie but hinderances to Ciuilitie Besides that a conquest may be of many and at once but ciuility is in particular and slow the effect of long time and great industry Moreouer victorie of them may bee gained many waies by force by surprize by famine in burning their Corne by destroying and burning their Boats Canoes and Houses by breaking their fishing Weares by assailing them in their huntings whereby they get the greatest part of their sustenance in Winter by pursuing and chasing them with our horses and blood-Hounds to draw after them and Mastiues to teare them which take this naked tanned deformed Sauages for no other then wild beasts and are so fierce and fell vpon them that they feare them worse then their old Deuill which they worship supposing them to be a new and worse kinde of Deuils then their owne By these and sundry other wayes as by driuing them when they flye vpon their enemies who are round about them and by animating and abetting their enemies against them may their ruine or subiection be soone effected So the Spaniard made great vse for his owne turne of the quarrels and enmities that were amongst the Indians as throughly vnderstanding and following that Maxime of the Politician Diuide impera Make diuisions and take Kingdomes For thus he got two of the greatest Kingdomes of the West Indies Peru and Mexico by the Princes diuisions and the peoples differences After the death of Guainacapa king of Peru his sonnes Attabalippa and Gascar falling to war about the kingdom each of thē striuing to make the Spaniard to his friend Francis Pizzarro managing those their diuisions onely to his owne ends easily stripped them both of that rich Kingdome and became Master of Peru. And so likwise Ferdinando Cortez vanquished King Motezuma and gained the Kingdome of Mexico from him by the aid and furtherance of the neighboring people of the Prouince of Tascala being deadly enemies to the Mexicans for which seruice they of Tascala are freed by the Spaniards from all Tributes to this time In VIRGINIA the many diuers Princes and people there are at this day opposite in infinite factions one vnto another and many of them beare a mortall hatred to these our barbarous Sauages that haue beene likely as false and perfidious heretofore to them as vnto vs of late So as the quarrels and the causes of them and the different humours of these people being well vnderstood it will be an easie matter to ouerthrow those that now are or may bee our enemies hereafter by ayding and setting on their enemies against them And by these factions and differences of petty Princes the Romans tooke their greatest aduantage to ouercome this Iland of Great Britayne of which Tacitus fayes Ita dum singuli pugnant vniuersi vincuntur And Iustin hath the like saying of the cause of vanquishing the Grecian Cities Fiftly Because the Indians who before were vsed as friends may now most iustly be compelled to seruitude and drudgery and supply the roome of men that labour whereby euen the meanest of the Plantation may imploy themselues more entirely in their Arts and Occupations which are more generous whilest Sauages performe their inferiour workes of digging in mynes and the like of whom also some may be sent for the seruice of the Sommer Ilands Sixtly This will for euer hereafter make vs more cautelous and circumspect as neuer to bee deceiued more by any other treacheries but will serue for a great instruction to all posteritie there to teach them that Trust is the mother of Deceipt and to learne them that of the Italian Chi non fida non s'inga muu Hee that trusts not is not deceiued and

there very well but their Maize being the naturall Graine of VIRGINIA doth farre exceed in pleasantnesse strength fertilitie and generalitie of vse the Wheat of England The Cattell which were transported thither being now growne neere to fifteene hundred doe become much bigger of body then the breed from whence they came The Horses also through the benefit of the Climate and nature of their feeding more beautifull and fuller of courage And such is the extraordinary fertilitie of that soyle that the Does of their Deere a kinde differing from ours in England yet no way inferiour yeeld two Fawnes at a fall or birth and sometimes three And the Fishings along our Coasts are in plenty of Fish equall to those of New-found-land and in greatnesse and goodnesse much superiour and twice in the yeare to be taken in their going and returne which is not else-where found in such plenty and varietie So as there went this yeare from diuers parts of this Kingdome neere thirty Saile thither who are well returned and richly fished To conclude but out of certaine aduertisements so often reiterated from thence as well as by the constant relations of many hundreds now yearely comming going they auow that it is a Country which nothing but ignorance can thinke ill of and which no man but of a corrupt minde ill purpose can defame which as it paralelleth the most opulent and rich Kingdomes of the world by lying in the same Latitude with them so doth it promise richer Mynes of the best and most desired mettals with them when the Colonie shall be of sufficient strength to open and defend them And for the Passage thither and Trade there it is free from all restraint by forren Princes whereunto most of our other accustomed trades are subiect there is neyther danger in the way through the encountring of the Enemy or Pyrate nor meeting with Rockes or Sholes by reason of the fayre and safe passage thorow the maine Ocean nor tediousnes of iourney which by reason of better knowledge then in former yeares the fruit of time and obseruation is oftner made and in fewer weekes then formerly it was wont to be in moneths which with the blessing of God produced in the last Summer this effect that in the Fleet of nine Saile of ships transporting aboue seauen hundred Passengers out of England and Ireland for the Plantation but one person in whose roome another at Sea was borne miscarryed by the way And for them after ariuall there are conuenient lodgings now in building and carefull attendance in Guests-houses prouiding till those that ariue can prouide for themselues In the three last yeares of 1619. 1620. and 1621. there hath beene prouided and sent for VIRGINIA forty two Saile of ships three thousand fiue hundred and seauenty men and women for Plantation with requisite prouisions besides store of Cattell and in those ships haue beene aboue twelue hundred Mariners imployed There hath also beene sent in those yeares nine ships to the Sommer Ilands with about nine hundred people to inhabite there in which ships two hundred and forty Mariners were imployed In which space haue beene granted fifty Patents to particular persons for Plantation in VIRGINIA who with their Associates haue vndertaken therein to transport great multitudes of people and cattell thither which for the most part is since performed and the residue now in preparing as by the seuerall Declarations of each yeare in their particulars manifested and approued in our generall and publike Quarter-Courts and for the fuller satisfaction of all desirous to vnderstand the particularities of such proceedings hath beene by printing commended to the vnderstanding of all The Letters written from the Gouernor and Treasurer in VIRGINIA in the beginning of March last which came hither in April gaue assurance of ouercomming and bringing to perfection in this yeare the Iron-works Glasse-works Salt-works the plentifull sowing of all sorts of English graine with the Plough hauing now cleared good quantitie of ground setting of store of Indian Corne or Maize sufficient for our selues and for trucke with the Natiues restraint of the quantity of Tobacco and amendment of it in the quality learned by time and experience The planting of Vines and Mulberry-trees neere to their houses Figg-trees Pomgranats Potatoes and Cotton-wooll seedes Pocoon Indico Sugar-Canes Madder Woade Hempe Flaxe and Silke-grasse and for the erecting of a fayre Inne in Iames-Citie for the better entertainment of new commers whereto and to other publike workes euery old planter there offered freely and liberally to contribute I write the words of their Letters And how in a late Discouery made a few moneths before by some of them to the Southward they had past thorow great Forrests of Pines fifteene or sixteene miles broad and aboue threescore miles long very fit for Mastes for shipping and for Pitch and Tarre and of other sorts of woods fit for Pot-ashes and Sope-ashes and came vnto a most fruitfull Country blessed with abundance of Corne reaped twice a yere within the limits of VIRGINIA where also they vnderstand of a Copper-myne an essay whereof was sent and vpon tryall here found to be very rich and met with a great deale of Silk-grasse there growing which monethly may be cut of which kindes and Cotton-wooll all the Cambaya and Bengala stuffes are made in the East-Indies and of which kindes of Silke-grasse was heretofore made a peece of Grogeram giuen to Queene Elizabeth And how that in December last they had planted and cultiuated in VIRGINIA Vines of all sorts as well those naturally growing as those other Plants sent them from these parts of Europe Orenge and Lemon-trees Figge-trees Sugar-Canes Cotton-wooll Cassaui Rootes that make very good bread Plantanes Potatoes and sundry other Indian fruits and plants not formerly seene in VIRGINIA which at the time of their said Letters beganne to prosper very well as also their Indico-seedes for the true cure whereof there is lately caused a Treatise to be written Furthermore they write that in a Voyage made by Lieutenant Marmaduke Parkinson and other English Gentlemen vp the Riuer of Patomack they saw a China Boxe at one of the Kings houses where they were Being demanded where he had it made answer That it was sent him from a King that dwelt in the West ouer the great Hils some tenne dayes iourney whose Countrey is neare a great Sea hee hauing that Boxe from a people as he said that came thither in ships that weare cloaths crooked swords somwhat like our men dwelt in houses and were called Acanack-China and he offered our people that he would send his Brother along with them to that King which offer the Gouernor purposed not to refuse and the rather by reason of the continual constant relations of all those Sauages in VIRGINIA of a Sea and the way to it West they affirming that the heads of all those seauen goodly Riuers the least wherof is greater then the Riuer of Thames and