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A Further account of New Jersey in an abstract of letters lately writ from thence / by several inhabitants there resident.
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1676
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A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF New JERSEY In an Abstract of LETTERS Lately Writ from thence By several Inhabitants there Resident Printed in the Year 1676. A further Account of New Jersey in an Abstract of Letters lately writ from thence by several Inhabitants there resident Dear Friend MY Love is to thee and thy Wife desiring your wellfare both inward and outward and that we may be found steadfast in that truth which is saving for the wellfare of our immortall Souls And dear Friend the desire of my Soul is that we may know true Love and I should be glad to see thee and thy Wife I have partly a rememberance of thy Wife And I have thought on thee many times with tears in my eyes and the Lord hath done wonderous works for me unto him I return thanks praises who is God over all Blessed for ever Now Friend I shall give thee somthing of an information concerning New Jersie but time will not permit me to write at length Thou desirest to know how I live through the goodness of the Lord I live very well keeping between 30 and 40 head of Cows and 7 or 8 Horses or Mares to Ride upon c. There are 7 Towns settled in this Province viz. Shrewsbury and Midletown upon the Sea side and along the River side and up the Creeks there is Piscattaway Woodbridge Elizobetown New wake and Bergane most of these Towns having about 100 Famileis and the least 40. The Country is very healthful c. In Middletown where I live in 6 years and upwards there have dyed but one Woman about 80 years old one Man about 60 a Boy about five years old and one little Infant or 2 there are in this Town in twenty five Families about 95 children most of them under 12 years of age and all lusty children The produce of this Province is chiefly Wheat Barly Oates Beans Beef Pork Pease Tobacco Indian Corn Butter Cheese Hemp flax French-beans Strawberries Carrots Parsnips Cabbidge Turnips Radishes Onions Cucumbers Water-mellons Musk-mellons Squashes also our soil is very fertile for Apples Pears Plums Quinces Currans red and white Gooseberries Cherries and Peaches in abundance having all sorts of green trash in the Summer time the Country is greatly supplied with Creeks Rivers which afford store of Fish Pearch Roach Baste Sheeps-head Oysters Clams Crabs Sturgeon Eels and many other sorts of Fish that I do not name you may Buy as much Fish of an Indian for half a pound of Powder as will serve 6 or 8 men Deer are also very plenty in this Province we can buy a fat Buck of the Indians much bigger than the English Deer for a pound and half of Powder or Lead or any other trade equivalent and a peck of Strawberries the Indians will gather and bring Home to us for the value of 6 d. and our Beef and Pork is very fat and good the natural Grass of the Country is much like that which grows in the Woods in England which is food enough for our Cattle but by the water side we have fresh meadows salt Marshes we make good English Bread and Beer besides we have severall other sorts of Drink and travelling in the Country and coming to any House they generally ask you to eat drink and take Tobacco and their several sorts of drink they will offer you as confidently as if it were Sack Here are abundance of Chesnuts Walnuts Mulberries and Grapes red and white our Horses and Mares run in the Woods and we give them no meat Winter nor Summer unless we work them but our Cows must be looked after our Timber stands for fences about the Land we manure we plough our Land with Oxen for the most part a Husband-man here and in old England is all one making most of our utencils for Husbandry our selves and a man that has 3 or 4 Sons or Servants that can work along with him will down with Timber amain and get Corn quickly The best coming to this Country is at the Spring or Fall we make our Soap Candles all such things our selves in the Winter we make good fires and eat good meat and our Women Children are healthy Sugar is cheap Venison Geese Turkies Pidgeons Fowle Fish plenty and one great happiness we enjoy which is we are very quiet I could give thee more information concerning this Country but time will not give leave In short this is a rare place for any poor man or others and I am satisfied people may live better here then they do in Old England and eat more good meat c. The Vessel is going away I have not time to coppy this over therefore take the sense of it my Love salutes thee farewel Richard Hartshorne New Jersie Midleton 12 of the 9th Month 1675. For my Dear Bro. Richard Craven in Lime-house Dear Bro. and Sister I And my Husband do dearly salute you hoping in the Lord you are all in good health as we are all at this time praises do I return unto the Lord for the largeness of his love unto me the which I have great cause never to forget I having this opportunity took it to let you hear from us And dear Sister it would be the joy of my heart to see thee and thy Husband and children here and dear Sister I have more comfort in one day here then I had in many dayes in England which is great joy to my soul and do desire if the Lord be plea'sd we may end our days together and you may believe me it is a brave Country and we have Cows Swine and Hens and are like to have Sheep shortly and we are going to set up a good House for we have not a very good one at present and we would take up some Land for you if we were sure you would come if the Country be unto you as it is unto us if you lived better then you do you would not repent your coming hither but be sure you come with an honest Shipmaster and bring some comfortable things in the Ship with you to take by the way but I have found no want since I came out of the Ship And so my dear Sister and Brother I long to see your faces if you be free to come Thy Dear Sister Martha S. New Jersey the 22. of 9th Month 1675. Dear and Loving Wife HAving now an opportunity to let thee understand of my welfare through the great mercy of God c. and as to the other place it is as good a healthfull place as men can desire to live in and here is plenty enough of all provisions and good English Wheat and Mault plenty of Fish and Fowl Indeed here is no want of any thing but honest people to Inhabit it there is Land enough purchased of the Indians for ten times so many as we were and these Indians here are very quiet and Peaceable Indians In New England they are at Wars with