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A12458	Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where. Or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation With the yearely proceedings of this country in fishing and planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate. Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences, by their proceedings in Virginia, and other plantations, by approved examples. With the countries armes, a description of the coast, harbours, habitations, land-markes, latitude and longitude: with the map, allowed by our royall King Charles. By Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 22787; ESTC S121885	31,468	55

value of fifteene hundred pound and arrived in England with all my men in health in six or seven moneths But Northward the French returned this yeare to France five and twenty thousand bevers and good furres whilest we were contending about Patents and Commissions with such fearefull incredulity that more dazeled our eyes than opened them In this voyage I tooke the description of the coast as well by map as writing and called it New-England but malicious mindes amongst Sailers and others drowned that name with the eccho of Nusconcus Canaday and Penaquid till at my humble sute our most gracious King Charles then Prince of Wales was pleased to confirme it by that title and did change the barbarous names of their principall Harbours and habitations for such English that posterity may say King Charles was their Godfather and in my opinion it should seeme an unmannerly presumption in any that doth alter them without his leave My second voyage was to beginne a Plantation and to doe what else I could but by extreme tempests that bore neare all my Masts by the boord being more than two hundred leagues at Sea was forced to returne to Plimoth with a Jury-Mast The third was intercepted by English and French Pyrats by my trecherous company that betrayed me to them who ran away with my Ship and all that I had such enemies the Sailers were to a Plantation and the greatest losse being mine did easily excuse themselves to the Merchants in England that still provided to follow the fishing much difference there was betwixt the Londoners and the Westerlings to ingrosse it who now would adventure thousands that when I went first would not adventure a groat yet there went foure or five good Ships but what by their dissention and the Turkes men of warre that tooke the best of them in the Straits they scarce saved themselves this yeare At my returne from France I did my best to have united them but that had beene more than a worke for Hercules so violent is the folly of greedy covetousnesse CHAP. 6. A description of the Coast Harbours Habitations Land-marks Latitude Longitude with the map THis Country wee now speake of lyeth betwixt 41. and 44½ the very meane for heat and cold betwixt the Equinoctiall and 〈◊〉 North Pole in which I have founded about five and twenty very good Harbors in many whereof is Ancorage for five hundred good ships of any burthen in some of them for a thousand and more than three hundred Iles overgrowne with good timber or divers sorts of other woods in most of them in their seasons plenty of wilde fruits Fish and Fowle and pure springs of most excellent water pleasantly distilling from their rockie foundations The principall habitations I was at North-ward was Pennobscot who are in warres with the Terentines their next Northerly neighbours Southerly up the Rivers and along the Coast wee found Mecadacut Segocket Pemmaquid Nusconcus Sagadahock Satquin Aumughcawgen and Kenabeca to those belong the Countries and people of Segot igo Pauhuntanuck Pocopassum Taughtanakagnet Wabigganus Nassaque Masherosqueck Wawrtgwick Moshoquen Waccogo Pasharanack c. To those are alied in confederacy the Countries of Aucocisco Accominticus Passataquak Augawoam and Naemkeck all these for any thing I could perceive differ little in language or any thing though most of them be Sagamos and Lords of themselves yet they hold the Bashabes of Pennobscot the chiefe and greatest amongst them The next is Mattahunt Totant Massachuset Paconekick then Cape Cod by which is Pawmet the Iles Nawset and Capawuck neere which are the shoules of Rocks and sands that stretch themselves into the maine Sea twenty leagues and very dangerous betwixt the degrees of 40. and 41. Now beyond Cape Cod the land extendeth it selfe Southward to Virginia Florida the West-Indies the Amazons and Brasele to the straits of Magelanus two and fifty degrees Southward beyond the Line all those great Countries differing as they are in distance North or South from the Equinoctiall in temper heat cold Woods Fruits Fishes Beasts Birds the increase and decrease of the night and day to six moneths day and six moneths night Some say many of those Nations are so brute they have no Religion wherein surely they may be deceived for myself I never saw nor heard of any Nation in the world which had not Religion Deare Bowes and Arrowes Those in New-England I take it beleeve much alike as those in Virginia of many divine Powers yet of one above all the rest as the Southerly Virginians call their chiefe God Kewassa and that we now inhabit Okae but all their Kings Werowances The M●ssichusots call their great God Kichtan and their Kings Sachemes and that we suppose their Devill they call Habamouk The Pennobscots their God Tantum their Kings Sagamos About those Countries are abundance of severall Nations and languages but much alike in their simple curiosities living and workemanship except the wilde estate of their chiefe Kings c. Of whose particular miserable magnificence yet most happy in this that they never trouble themselves with such variety of Apparell Drinkes Viands Sawses Perfumes Preservatives and nicities as we yet live as long and much more healthfull and hardy also the deities of their chiefest Gods Priests Conjurers Religion Temples Triumphs Physicke and Chirurgeric their births educations duty of their women exercise for their men how they make all their Instruments and Engines to cut downe Trees make their Cloaths Boats Lines Nets Fish-hooks Weres and Traps Mats Houses Pots Platters Morters Bowes Arrowes Targets Swords Clubs Jewels and Hatchets Their severall sorts of Woods Serpents Beasts Fish Fowle Roots Berries Fruits Stones and Clay Their best trade what is most fit to trade with them With the particulars of the charge of a fishing voyage and all the necessaries belonging to it their best countries to vent it for their best returnes also the particulars for every private man or family that goeth to plant and the best seasons to goe or returne thence with the particular description of the Salvages Habitations Harbours and Land markes their Latitude Longitude or severall distance with their old names and the new by the Map augmented Lastly the power of their Kings obedience of their subjects Lawes executions planting their Fields Huntings Fishings the manner of their warres and treacheries yet knowne and in generall their lives and conversation and how to bridle their brute barbarous and salvage dispositions of all these particulars you may reade at large in the generall History of Virginia New-England and the Summer Iles with many more such strange actions and accidents that to an ordinary capacity might rather seeme miracles than wonders possibly to bee effected which though they are but wound up as bottoms of fine silke which with a good needle might be flourished into a far larger worke yet the Images of great things are best discerned contracted into smaller glasses CHAP. 7. New Englands yearely trials the

among the natives till he had learned their language then he perswaded them to become Christians shewing them a Testament some parts thereof expounding so well as he could but they so much derided him that he told them hee feared his God would destroy them whereat the King assembled all his people about a hill himselfe with the Christian standing on the top demanded if his God had so many people and able to kill all those He answered yes and surely would and bring in strangers to possesse their land but so long they mocked him and his God that not long after such a sicknesse came that of five or six hundred about the Massachusets there remained but thirty on whom their neighbours fell and slew twenty eight the two remaining fled the Country till the English came then they returned and surrendred their Countrey and title to the English if this be not true in every particular excuse me I pray you for I am not the Author but it is most certaine there was an exceeding great plague amongst them for where I have seene two or three hundred within three yeares after remained scarce thirty but what disease it was the Salvages knew not till the English told them never having seene nor heard of the like before CHAP. 4. Our right to those Countries true reasons for plantations rare examples MAny good religious devout men have made it a great question as a matter in conscience by what warrant they might goe to possesse those Countries which are none of theirs but the poore Salvages Which poore curiosity will answer it selfe for God did make the world to be inhabited with mankind and to have his name knowne to all Nations and from generation to generation as the people increased they dispersed themselves into such Countries as they found most convenient And here in Florida Virginia New-England and Cannada is more land than all the people in Christendome can manure and yet more to spare than all the natives of those Countries can use and culturate And shall we here keepe such a coyle for land and as such great rents and rates when there is so much of the world uninhabited and as much more in other places and as good or rather better than any wee possesse were it manured and used accordingly If this be not a reason sufficient to such tender consciences for a copper kettle and a few toyes as beads and hatchets they will fell you a whole Countrey and for a small matter their houses and the ground they dwell upon but those of the Massachusets have resigned theirs freely Now the reasons for plantations are many Adam and Eve did first begin this innocent worke to plant the earth to remaine to posterity but not without labour trouble and industry Noah and his family began againe the second plantation and their seed as it still increased hath still planted new Countries and one Country another and so the world to that estate it is but not without much hazard travell mortalities discontents and many disasters had those worthy Fathers and their memorable off-spring not beene more diligent for us now in those ages than wee are to plant that yet unplanted for after-livers Had the seed of Abraham our Saviour Christ Jesus and his Apostles exposed themselves to no more dangers to plant the Gospell wee so much professe than we even we our selves had at this present beene as Salvages and as miserable as the most barbarous Salvage yet uncivilized The Hebrewes Lacedemonians the Goths Grecians Romans and the rest what was it they would not undertake to inlarge their Territories inrich their subjects and resist their enemies Those that were the founders of those great Monarchies and their vertues were no silvered idle golden Pharisies but industrious honest hearted Publicans they regarded more provisions and necessaries for their people than jewels ease and delight for themselves riches was their servants not their masters they ruled as fathers not as tyrants their people as children not as slaves there was no disaster could discourage them and let none thinke they incountered not with all manner of incumbrances and what hath ever beene the worke of the best great Princes of the world but planting of Countries and civilizing barbarous and inhumane Nations to civility and humanity whose eternall actions fils our histories with more honour than those that have wasted and consumed them by warres Lastly the Portugals and Spaniards that first began plantations in this unknowne world of America till within this 140. yeares whose everlasting actions before our eyes will testifie our idlenesse and ingratitude to all posterity and neglect of our duty and religion wee owe our God our King and Countrey and want of charity to those poore Salvages whose Countries we challenge use and possesse except wee be but made to mar what our forefathers made or but only tell what they did or esteeme our selves too good to take the like paines where there is so much reason liberty and action offers it selfe having as much power and meanes as others why should English men despaire and not doe so much as any Was it vertue in those Heros to provide that doth maintaine us and basenesse in us to doe the like for others to come Surely no then seeing wee are not borne for our selves but each to helpe other and our abilities are much alike at the howre of our birth and minute of our death seeing our good deeds or bad by faith in Christs merits is all wee have to carry our soules to heaven or hell Seeing honour is our lives ambition and our ambition after death to have an honourable memory of our life and seeing by no meanes wee would be abated of the dignitie and glorie of our predecessors let us imitate their vertues to be worthily their successors or at least not hinder if not further them that would and doe their utmost and best endevour CHAP. 5. My first voyage to new England my returne and profit TO begin with the originals of the voyages to those coasts I referre you to my generall history for New-England by the most of them was esteemed a most barren rocky desart Notwithstanding at the sole charge of some Merchants of London and my selfe 1614. within eight weekes sayling I arrived at Mo●ahigan an I le in America in 43. degrees 39. minutes of Northerly latitude Had the fishing for Whale proved as we expected I had stayed in the Country but we found the plots wee had so false and the seasons for fishing and trade by the unskilfulnesse of our Pylot so much mistaken I was contented having taken by hookes and lines with fifteene or eighteene men at most more than 60000. Cod in lesse than a moneth whilest my selfe with eight others of them might best be spared by an houre glasse of three moneths ranging the coast in a small boat got for trifles eleven hundred Bever skins beside Otters and Martins all amounting to the

renowned Captain Candish Sir Richard Luson Sir Iohn Hawkins Captaine Carlile and Sir Martin Furbisher c. and the most memorable and right honourable Earles Cumberland Essex Southampton and Nottingham that good L. Admirall with many hundreds of brave English Souldiers Captaines and Gentlemen that have taught the Hollanders to doe the like Those would never stand upon a demurre who should give the first blow when they see peace was onely but an empty name and no sure league but impuissance to doe hurt found it better to buy peace by warre than take it up at interest of those could better guide penknives than use swords and there is no misery worse than be conducted by a foole or commanded by a coward for who can indure to be assaulted by any see his men and selfe imbrued in their owne bloud for feare of a checke when it is so contrary to nature and necessity and yet as obedient to government and their Soveraigne as duty required Now your best plea is to stand upon your guard and provide to defend as they did offend especially at landing if you be forced to retire you have the advantage five for one in your retreat wherein there is more discipline than in a brave charge and though it seeme lesse in fortune it is as much in valour to defend as to get but it is more easie to defend than assault especially in woods where an enemy is ignorant Lastly remember as faction pride and security produces nothing but confusion miseric and dissolution so the contraries well practised will in short time make you happy and the most admired people of all our plantations for your time in the world Iohn Smith writ this with his owne hand FINIS Errata Page 3. The Company in England say 7. or 8. thousand the Counsell in Virginia say but 2200. or there abouts Errata COurteous Reader by reason of the false transcribeing of the Copy these faults are past which we desire you to mend with your Pen. In the Epistle to the Reader l. 9. for detractnesse read detractment in the Contents Chap. 7. l. 3. the Sants r. them Phesants page 1. l. 14. desirous r. desired p 2. l. 28. denied not r. denied it not p. 24. l. 25. the Sants r. them Phesants p. 26. l. 26. Cattanents r. Catavents p. 27. l. 16. with r. to which p. 28 against line 22. R. B. wants in the margin p. 32. l. 28. Almond r. Allom. p. 44. against line 7. R. B. wants in the margin p. 52. l. 22. accord r. action p. 54. in line 14 and 15. blot out Cutters to have made India Tobacco p. 55. l. 4. then for mine r. then mine for p. 61. l. 3. shaviva r. aleavina p. 66. l. 23. immitation r. initiation p. 67. l. 4. come r. am p. 71. against line 29. R. B. wants in the margin p. 72. l. 6. 7. 8. 9. for Neva disant ma main faict cest aennre On ma vertut cebel aennre ae par faict Mais dis ainsi dien par moy a faict Dieu est santheur dei peu de bien que je ' onre reade Ne va disant ma main a faict cest oeuure Ou ma vertu ce bel oeuure a par faict Mais dis ainsi dieu par moy l'our a faict Dieu est l'autheur du peu de bien que je'oure No Browaist nor Separatist admitted what they are that biginne this Plantation The bine of Virginia The differences betwixt my beginning in Virginia and the proceedings of my successors A strange mistake is wise men Thee effect of slavrry the 〈◊〉 of misery Take heed of factions bred in England The Massacre in Virginia How the company dissolved The abundance of victuals now in Virginia A great comfort for New England by Virginia The differences betwixt the beginning of Virginia and them of Salem A necessary consideration New-England is no Iland but the maine continent A strange plague among the Salvages By what right wee may possesse those Countries law fully True reasons for those plantations Rare examples of the Spaniards Portugals and the Ancients My first voyage to Notumbega now called New-England 1614. We got 1500. pound in six moneths 25000. Bevers sent to France My second and third voyage 1615. 1616. A description of the Country Vnder the Equinoctiall twelve houres day and twelve night Their Religion 1617. Eight ships to fish 1621. 1622. Seven and thirty saile to fish 1623. Five and forty saile to fish 1624. They make store of good salt An incredible rich mine Notes worthy observation Goods ill gotten ill spent Miserablenesse no good husbandry 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. The effect of the last great Patent A Proclamation for New-England Memorandums for masters Incouragements for servants 1629. The planting Salem Their provisions for Salem The planting Salem and Charlton A description of the Massachusets Bay The master-peece of workmanship Extraordinary meanes for buildings Caveats for catt●ll How to spoyle the woods for pasture and corne A silly complaint of cold the reason and remedy Proviso●s for passengers and saylers at sea 1630. Their presnnt estate The fruits of counterfeits Note well Ecclesiasticall government in Virginia Their estates at this day Their order of teaching in Salem The miserable effects of faction in Religion The necessity of order and authority The effect of a Cittadell or 〈◊〉 t●ue modell of a Plantation The condition of trade and freedome The Spaniards glory Provisoes for exercise of armes A reference to the action of all our prime discoverers and plonters What is requisite to be in a Governour of a plantation The expeditions of Queene Elizabeths Sea-Captaines