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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

settled were at their first comming upon them as woody as James Rivers the first place they setled in and yet those Rivers are as healthy as any former setled place in Virginia or England it self I believe and that not without reason it was only want of such diet as best agreed with our English natures good drinks and wholesome lodgings were the cause of so much sicknesses as were formerly frequent which we have now amended and therefore enjoy better healths to which I add and that by experience since my comming into England and many if not all Virginians can do the like that change of ayre does much alter the state of our bodies by which many travellers thither may expect some sickness yet little danger of mortality A Geographicall description of the Country I shall not attempt as having littles kill in the Mathematicks enough of that hath been formerly Written nor is it a place now to learn to discover I shall abhor to spirit over any but go along with such as are voluntarily desirous to go thither and lead them with my blunt relation for truth knows little of eloquence aboard the Ships thither bound and carrying you into the Country shew you the courtesie of the place the disposition of the Inhabitants the commodities and give all sorts of people advice how and where to set down for their present benefit and future accommodation If any are minded to repair thither if they are not in a capacity to defray their own charges if they are I wish they might and so be at their own disposing let them not be seduced by those mercinary spirits that know little of the place nor aime at any good of theirs but onely by foysting and flattering them to gain a reward of those they procure them for beware them for it is not only hab nab nab whether ye go to a good service or a bad but scandalous to your selves to be so seduced and it were good and very just that such vagabond people were severely punished as great betrayers of their own Nation for ye cannot imagine but there are as well bad services as good but I shall shew ye if any happen into the hands of such crooked dispositions how to order them and ease your selves when I come to treat of the justice of the Country which many being ignorant of suffer inconveniences which by this they may prevent Let such as are so minded not rashly throw themselves upon the voyage but observe the nature and enquire the qualities of the persons with whom they ingage to transport themselves or if as not acquainted with such as inhabit there but go with Merchants and Mariners who transport them to others let their covenant be such that after their arrival they have a fortnights time assigned them to enquire of their Master and make choyce of such as they intend to expire their time with nor let that brand of selling of servants be any discouragement to deter any from going for if a time must be served it is all one with whom it be served provided they be people of honest repute with which the Country is well replenished And be sure to have your contract in writing and under hand and seal for if ye go over upon promise made to do this or that or to be free or your own men it signifies nothing for by a law of the Country waving all promises any one coming in and not paying their own passages must serve if men or women four years if younger according to their years but where an Inden●ure is that is binding and observing The usuall allowance for servants is besides their charge of passage defrayed at their expiration a years provision of corne dubble apparrell tooles necessary and land according to the custome of the Country which is an old delusion for there is no land accustomary due to the servant but to the Master and therefore that servant is unwise that will not dash out that custom in his covenant and make that due of land absolutely his own which although at the present not of so great consequence yet in few years will be of much worth as I shall hereafter make manifest When ye go aboard expect the Ship somewhat troubled and in a hurliburly untill ye cleer the lands end and that the Ship is rummaged and things put to rights which many times discourages the Passengers and makes them wish the Voyage unattempted but this is but for a short season and washes off when at Sea where the time is pleasantly passed away though not with such choise plenty as the shore affords But when ye arrive and are settled ye will find a strange alteration an abused Country giving the lye in your own approbations to those that have calumniated ir and these infalable arguments may convince all incredible and obstinate opinions concerning the goodnesse and delightfulnesse of the Country that never any servants of late times have gone thither but in their Letters to their Friends commend and approve of the place and rather invite than disswade their acquaintance from comming thither An other is this that seldom if ever any that hath continued in Virginia any time will or do desire to live in England but post back with what expedition they can although many are landed men in England and have good Estates here and divers wayes of preferments propounded to them to entice and perswade their continuance The Country is as I said of a temperate nature the dayes in summer not so long as in England in winter longer it is somewhat hotter in June July and August then here but that heat sweetly allayed by a continual breaze of winde which never failes to cool and refresh the labourer and traveller the cold seldom approaches sencibly untill about Christmas although the last winter was hard and the worst I or any living there ever knew and when winter comes which is such and no worse then is in England it continues two monthes seldom longer often not so long and in that time although here seldom hard-weather keep men from labour yet there no work is done all winter except dressing their own victuals and making of fires The labour servants are put to is not so hard nor of such continuance as Husbandmen nor Handecraftmen are kept at in England as I said litle or nothing is done in winter time none ever work before sun rising nor after sun set in the summer they rest sleep or exercise themselves five houres in the heat of the day Saturdays afternoon is alwayes their own the old Holidayes are observed and the Sabboath spent in good exercises The Women are not as is reported put into the ground to worke but occupie such domestique imployments and houswifery as in England that is dressing victuals righting up the house milking imployed about dayries washing sowing c. and both men and women have times of recreations as much or more than in any part of the world