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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87050	Leah and Rachel, or, the two fruitfull sisters Virginia and Mary-land: their present condition, impartially stated and related. VVith a removall of such imputations as are scandalously cast on those countries, whereby many deceived souls, chose rather to beg, steal, rot in prison, and come to shamefull deaths, then to better their being by going thither, wherein is plenty of all things necessary for humane subsistance. / By John Hammond.	Hammond, John, d. 1707.	1656 (1656)	Wing H620; Thomason E865_6; ESTC R207623	20,543	38

LEAH and RACHEL OR the Two Fruitfull Sisters VIRGINIA AND MARY-LAND Their Present Condition Impartially stated and related VVITH A Removall of such Imputations as are scandalously cast on those Countries whereby many deceived Souls chose rather to Beg Steal rot in Prison and come to shamefull deaths then to better their being by going thither wherein is plenty of all things necessary for Humane subsistance By John Hammond Eccles. 22. v. 8. If children live honestly and have wherewith they shall put away the shame of their Parents LONDON Printed by T. Mabb and are to be sold by Nich. Bourn neer the Royall Exchange 1656. TO His Honoured and Worthy Friends the Worshipfull William Stone Esquire Governour and Leivt. General of the Province of Mary-land AND Mr. James Williamson of Rapahanock in Virginia Gentleman Gentlemen AS yee both are Eminent in your Places and are as well beloved where ye live and that your loves to each other are such as I wish the Vnion between Virginia and Mary-land to be my Subject being concerning both places I know none more fit then your selves to Dedicate it to not so much for your kindnesses which I have often tasted of as that the truth hereof under your Patronage may obtain belief and credit I crave your Pardons for intruding this unknown to you and using your names to so mean a piece I have certified you wherefore I did it to which I add that I am desirous the whole country may note your affections to each other And that I dare in England own and Entitle him my Governour that in Mary-land I fled for submitting to I shall no further enlarg here more then to let you know that I am to those Countries and Your selves an Humble Servant and Well-wisher whilest I am Jo. Hammond TO Those two worthy Commanders and Marriners Capt. Iohn Whittie Commander of the good Ship the Freeman now bound for Virginia And Capt. Sam. Tilghman Commander of the Golden Fortune now bound for the Province of MARY-LAND SIRS AS I have made choice of two Honourable Gentlemen the one belonging to Virginia the other to Mary-land So I thought it not impertinent equally with them to Dedicate this to you two living in England and Vsing the Trade of Virginia and Mary-land that your selves may judge and testifie who well know the Country that that I have not added to their worths but rather been sparing of what is justly their dues For it is a received errour amongst the many slanders cast on these places that we are sworn neither to Speak nor Write but glossingly of them If we are so sworn they cannot believe yee are and therefore will credite your Affirmations both places speak worthily of you both for affable usage of your Passengers and noble deportments towards the inhabitants in those Countries and so are yee both noted that I wish yee were as well known to all strangers desirous to ship themselves thither as to us that have lived there They then would as much covet to be your Passengers as we that by experience have felt and known your goodnesse many other Gentlemen of good repute uses the Trade but this I dare affirm that though they may be had in equall esteem yet men more generally beloved and applauded I have not known using that Course than your selves You know I flatter not therefore I crave no excuse unlesse for my presumption in this attempt but seeing unknown to your selves I have published your names here in Print pray call me not to account for it This Book I confesse is not worthy of it nor I of your angers but how ever ye see it is past litera scripta manet yee must either buy up and burn all or ye will be found here and I hope not blemisht in it nor in owning the truth of Your reall Servant JOHN HAMMOND Leah and Rachell or the two fruitfull Sisters of Virginia and Mary-land their present condition impartially stated and related IT is the glory of every Nation to enlarge themselves to encourage their own forraign attempts and to be able to have of their own within their own territories as many several commodities as they can attain to that so others may rather be beholding to them then they to others and to this purpose have Encouragements Priviledges and Emunities been given to any Discoveries or Adventurers into remote Colonies by all politique Common Wealths in the world But alas we Englishmen in all things else famous and to other Countries terrible do not onely faile in this but vilifie scandalize and cry down such parts of the unknown world as have been found out setled and made flourishing by the charge hazzard and diligence of their own brethren as if because removed from us we either account them people of another world or enemies This is too truly made good in the odiums and cruell slanders cast on those two famous Countries of Virginia and Mary-land whereby those Countries not onely are many times at a stand but are in danger to moulder away and come in time to nothing nor is there any thing but the fertility and natural gratefulnesse of them left a remedy to prevent it To let our own Nation whose common good I covet and whose Common wealths servant I am as born to no other use be made sensible of these injuries I have undertaken in this Book to give the true state of those places according to the condition they are now in and to declare either to distressed or discontented that they need not doubt because of any rumour detracting from their goodnesses to remove and cast themselves and Fortunes upon those Countries in which if I should deviate from the truth I have at this present carping enemies in London enough to contradict and cry down me and this for Impostours It is not long since I came from thence God knows sore against my will having lived there upward of one and twenty years nor do I intend by Gods assistance to be long out of it again and therefore can by experience not hear-say as Bullock and other lying Writters have done who at randome or for their own private lucre have rendred their Books rediculous and themselves infamous lyars nor will I like them over extoll the places as if they were rather Paradices than earthly habitations but truly let ye know what they are and how the people there live Which when impartially viewed will undoubtedly clear up those Foggy Mists that hath to their own ruine blinded and kept off many from going thither whose miseries and misfortunes by staying in England are much to be lamented and much to be pittied In respect these two Sister Countries though distinct Governments are much of one nature both for produce and manner of living I shall only at present Treat of the elder Sister Virginia and in speaking of that include both And ere I leave off shall in particular rehearse the unnaturall usuage Mary-land the younger Sister hath had not by