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A sommary description manifesting that greater profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could [sic] parts off the coast off America and how much the public good is concerned therein referring to the annexed advertissement for men inclined to plantations.
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Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.
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1660
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Wing G571; ESTC R7876
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Evidences against the murderers and producing any witnesses against them finally to remayne master of his graunts and â—â—troys which thy forced from him by an outragious apprehention of his persson with violation off their contracts and yett pretending that the infraction of them and the injurious proceeding against the sayd Sir Balthazar Gerbers persson was without knowledge off the whole association and only hammered by two or three off theire members in number above thirty two and pretending as these two or three att the most sayd only to satisfy theire particular curiosity with the view off his papers and off the graunts Swearing and vouwing that none off all those off the Company had the least thought off the World ever any more to looke after Gould nor Silver on the American coast nor to send theither when as to the contrary thy being no soeuer in pocession off all Sir Balthazar Gerbers Evidences nay of papers which did not concerne that dessyne and as yett by them shame fully and unjustly detayned Butt thy immediatly caused the ship called the Ecudracht to be prepared and retayned as many of the men as might fitt theire turne which thy have appointed to returne to the place from whence Sir Balthazar Gerber and his familly was so violently hayled and have ordered theire sayd brood to spend a yeare or two in a generall Search throughout all those Territories for all what is to bee gotten theire But hou such men so unjustly proceding may speede God whose arme reatcheth further then the ends off this visible World knowith and tyme will Manifest As this may serve to althose that are curious to knowe sommarily the truth of this casse and to onderstand on what conditions wich might ingage on such a good dessyne and houw Planters may inprove them selves in those parts as namly All Planters may pocesse gratis in propriety so much Land as they can mannuer with an entire freedome to dispose thereof either by will deed Covenant or Contract all Planters bee free off Customes rights or dueties during the thime of ten yeares have slaves for fifthien pound a peece pay them either in reddy monny or with the commodities off thire owne plantations taking the tyme of five yeares for the same Freely enjoy all such mynes off Salpeter Irron Copper Silver Gould Christal Precious Stonnes Marble as Planters may finde within theire allotted Lands paying for them after the five yeares a certayne duty offten in the hundred fisshing hunting and cutting off wood for building and fire free and enjoy libertye off Consience be transported to the place within the tyme off two months the winds being prosperous and make choisse off theire habitations either neere the Bayes or Rivers where the Sea-Cowes are in greate aboundance or lower towards Cap Orannie or in the River Wiâ—poca wherein ships drawing deepe ten foote water may well ride att an Aâ—ker as in that off Apperwake 4 degrees by North the Lyne for that the sayd River off Apper wake is in its entrance at half Ebb fourtein foote deepe and hath 3. 4. and 5. fadoms wator untill 14. dutch leagues up the River 50. hath the River on the east side in the River Apperwake and good Lands some 6 or 7 mysles high WIA betweene 4 and 5 degrees and syding on the Eyland Cajany a goodly River Wherein Ships that drawe 12 foote may enter and ryde safely and is deepe 4. 5. a 6 fadoms the Land two mysles from the Sea a most fruitfull Soill so is Cunanama and Tamary by Nord Cajany towards Sarenamme What profits such Planters that have somewhat to bestow on ares hatchets glas beades and coursse Linnen for the inhabitans to witt certayne Charibdiens who frequent those Rivers with theire Canoos may doe is plainly exprest in this Advertissement Wat profit a company may doe without to greate charges is lykwijse demonstrated for as a quantity off Salt taken from the Eylands may serve to salt Sea-Cowes and Tortuses to send to the Charribdis Eylands as likweyse a Chargarsoen off Beeff Porc Oyle Sac. strong waters stuffs and Linnen Coers and other will quitt all the charges for the transportation and settling off the Planters so the setting men att worke on the mykes gathering of all things off profit and making sarch through those parts according unto the contents off this advertissement and the secret information which the autor had long sincs which as he intend it for the publike good so may all men desirous to improve them selves that way bee further satisfyed on what theire Interests may require concerning the same by making theire adresses unto him And See by the following Lines what just cause the author hath had making mention of the perfidious proceeding of men against his persson and familly to point so particularly as he doth att some off them since thy have beene so malitiously Inpudent as to vent a woreld off falce hoods concerning his proceding and to expound the best care he could apply for the furthering off the dessyne in an ill perversse and horridde sence theire trusties having been so abominabel wicked as to pocesse all the People that was inbarckt att Vessel that his dessyne was to epose them all to a Boucherie off other nations in Europe by cause he on the occasion off a crake which the mayne mast of the prime Ship had gotten on the hight of Hitland consulted the Captayne off the Ship where annother mast could bee had where on the Captayne replied England which the perfidious Trusties made use of as to argue the same to have been a plott to runne with al the Equipage into England and that after his arrivall att the Eyland Cajana 5. degrees bynord the Lyne where one Jan Klaessen Langendijck One of the Westdian Companies Officer theire receaved the authors familly and lodged the same during a necessary tyme off refreshment when Denis Bringor heere to fore Captayne off a French Shipp butt now a Planter on Cajana did speake with Sir Balthazar Gerber as likwyse one Capitayn Tillet did where on though the sayd perssons theire conversation with Sir Balthazar Gerber tended butt to advertise him of advantages to be made in those parts yett The blud thirsty disguised the more theire resolved ficious thereon and trayterously abused even off the Lords States Generall by framing an act off arrest of the persson of Sir Balthazar Gerber wherein thy alledged that thy where authorised to proceede as thy did and that by the sayd Lord States Order and having in that manner surprised the capacity off Soldiours which thy had made drunke with strang Waters and provided with armes and Shott Ledd them on the 7 of May the year 1660 when the Commander Langendyck was not in his Fort to breake in his House as thy did about dinner tyme sett uppon the sayd Sir Balthasar Gerbers famully and after thy had 〈◊〉 to kill Debora his Yongest Daughter shott Catharina who departed this World that night shoâ—t Mary her Sister through her right Legg and sett a pistol on the head off Sir Balthazar butt fayled yett would have dispatcht him and the remnant off his family had the Murderers not been prevented by the Inhabitants off Cajany and by the returne off the Commander Langendyke who putt some off the murderers in the Irrons save one Rijnier van Buren whoe did act his Trayterous act so according unto the secret instructions which he pretendid to have had before the departure off the Equipage fron Terell as to gayne the masters off the Ships and the Sea-men to hoyle Sir Balthazar Gerber and his familly on board to worke outt that dessijne where by his abetters would stripp the proprietary as aforesayd of his ryght which being matter off fact hath been by witnesses examined uppon Interrogatoires declared uppon oath before the Magistrat off Amsterdam as appeared by theire declaration and theire Citty Scale theire unto applyed In conclusion it may be sayd that whoe hath had to doe with such a broade may alledge the words I have laboured in vayne I have spent my strenght for nought and in vayne Isaiah ca. 49. v. 4. B. G. D. These wil 〈◊〉 bee had att the weekly Intelligencer at London as heere after an exact description of the profits to bee done more in the warme then in te could contries of America