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A43838	A relation of a discovery lately made on the coast of Florida (from lat. 31 to 33 deg. 45 min. north-lat.) / by William Hilton, Anthony Long and Peter Fabian, in the ship Adventure, which set sayl from Spikes Bay, Aug. 10. 1663. and was set forth by several gentlemen and merchants of the Island of Barbadoes ; giving an account of the nature and temperature of the soyl, the manners and disposition of the natives, and whatsoever else is remarkable therein ; together with proposals made by the commissioners of the lords proprietors to all such persons as shall become the first setlers on the rivers, harbors, and creeks there.	Hilton, William, d. 1675.; Long, Anthony.; Fabian, Peter.	1664 (1664)	Wing H2043; ESTC R35440	17,500	38

Countrey all in Arms we not knowing how the winde might crosse us it was not thought fit to stay there But some of those English that had lived there being Prisoners say that it is a very fair and goodly River branching into several branches and deep and is fresh water at low Tide within two leagues of the Mouth it seeming to us as we passed by a good entrance large and wide lat 32 deg 40 min. in or thereabouts Now our understanding of the Land of Port-Royal River Jordan River Grandie or Edistow is as followeth The Lands are laden with large tall Oaks VValnut and Bayes except facing on the Sea it is most Pines tall and good The Land generally except where the Pines grow is a good Soyl covered with black Mold in some places a foot in some places half a foot and in other places lesse with Clay underneath mixed with Sand and we think may produce any thing as well as most part of the Indies that we have seen The Indians plant in the worst Land because they cannot cut down the Timber in the best and yet have plenty of Corn Pumpions Water-Mellons Musk-mellons although the Land be over-grown with weeds through their lazinesse yet they have two or three crops of Corn a year as the Indians themselves inform us The Country abounds with Grapes large Figs and Peaches the Woods with Deer Conies Turkeys Quails Curlues Plovers Teile Herons and as the Indians say in Winter with Swans Geese Cranes Duck and Mallard and innumerable of other water-Fowls whose names we know not which lie in the Rivers Marshes and on the Sands Oysters in abundance with great store of Muscles A sort of fair Crabs and a round Shel fish called Horse feet The Rivers stored plentifully with Fish that we saw play and leap There are great Marshes but most as far as we saw little worth except for a Root that grows in them the Indians make good Bread of The Land we suppose is healthful for the English that were cast away on that Coast in July last were there most part of that time of year that is sickly in Virginia and notwithstanding hard usage and lying on the ground naked yet had their perfect healths all the time The Natives are very healthful we saw many very Aged amongst them The Ayr is clear and sweet the Countrey very pleasant and delightful And we could wish that all they that want a happy settlement of our English Nation were well transported thither c. FRom Tuesday the 29th of September to Friday the second of October we ranged along the shoar from the lat 32 deg 20 min. to the lat 33 deg 11 min. but could discern no Entrance for our Ship after we had passed to the Northwards of 32 deg 40 min. On Saturday the third instant a violent storm came up the winde between the North and the East which Easterly windes and fowl weather continued till Monday the 12th By reason of which storms and fowl weather we were forced to get off to Sea to secure our selves and ship and were horsed by reason of a strong Current almost to Cape Hatterasse in lat 35 deg 30 min. On Monday the 12th aforesaid we came to an Anchor in seven fathom at Cape Fair-Road and took the Meridian-Altitude of the Sun and were in the lat 33 deg 43 min. the winde continuing still Easterly and fowl weather till Thursday the 15th instant and on Friday the 16th the winde being at N. W. we weighed and sailed up Cape Fair-River some four or five leagues and came to an Anchor in six or seven fathom at which time several Indian came on Board and brought us great store of Fresh-fish large Mullets young Bass Shads and several other sorts of very good well-tasted Fish On Saturday the 17th we went down to the Cape to see the English Cattel but could not finde them though we rounded the Cape And having an Indian Guide with us here we rode till the 24th instant the winde being against us we could not go up the River with our Ship in which time we went on shoar and viewed the land of those quarters On Saturday we weighed and sayled up the River some four leagues or thereabouts Sunday the 25th we weighed again and towed up the River it being calm and got up some fourteen leagues from the Harbours mouth where we mored our Ship On Monday the 26 October we went down with the Yoal to Necoes an Indian Plantation and viewed the Land there On Tuesday the 27th we rowed up the main River with our long-Boat and twelve men some ten leagues or thereabouts On Wednesday the 28th we rowed up about eight or nine leagues more Thursday the 29th was foul weather of much rain and winde which forced us to make Huts and lye still Friday the 30th we proceeded up the main River seven or eight leagues Saturday the 31 we got up three or four leagues more and came to a Tree that lay athwart the River but because our Provisions were neer spent we proceeded no further but returned downward the remainder of that day and on Monday the second of November we came aboard our Ship Tuesday the third we lay still to refresh ourselves On Wednesday the 4th we went five or six leagues up the River to search a branch that ran out of the main River towards the N. W. In which branch we went up five or six leagues not liking the Land we returned on board that night about midnight and called that place Swampy-branch Thursday the fifth instant we staid aboard on Friday the 6th we went up Greens River the mouth of it being against the place we rode with our Ship On Saturday the 7th we proceeded up the said River some fourteen or fifteen leagues in all and found that it ended in several small branches the Land for the most part being marshy and swamps we returned towards our ship and got aboard in the night Sunday the 8th instant we lay still and on Monday the 9th we went again up the main River being well provided with Provisions and all things necessary and proceeded upwards till Thursday noon 12th instant at which time we came to a place where two Islands were in the middle of the River and by reason of the crookednesse of the River at that place several Trees lay athwart both branches which stopped up the passage of each branch that we could proceed no further with our Boat but we went up the River side by land some three or four miles and found the River to enlarge it self So we returned leaving it as far as we could see up a long reach running N. E. we judging our selves from the Rivers mouth North near fifty leagues we returned viewing the Land on both sides the River and found as good tracts of land dry well wooded pleasant and delightful as we have seen any where in the world with great burthen of Grasse on it the land

high Seat above all the rest Also another house like a Sentinel-house floored ten foot high with planks fastned with Spikes and Nayls standing upon substantial Posts with several other small houses round about Also we saw many planks to the quantity of three thousand foot or thereabouts with other Timber squared and a Cross before the great house Likewise we saw the Ruines of an old Fort compassing more than half an acre of land within the Trenches which we supposed to be Charls's Fort built and so called by the French in 1562 c. On Monday September 21. one English youth was brought from St. Ellens aboard us by an Indian who informed us that there were four more of their company at St. Ellens but he could not tell whether the Indians would let them come to us For saith he Our Men told me that they had lately seen a Frier and two Spanyards more at St. Ellens who told them they would send Soldiers suddenly to fetch them away This day we sayled up the River with our Ship to go through to St. Ellens On Tuesday the 22 instant three Indians came on board one of them we sent with a Letter to the English Prisoners there On Wednesday the 23d we sent out Boat and Men to sound the Chanel and finde out the most likely way to St. Ellens with our Ship by Combeheh In the mean time came many Canoa's aboard us with Corn Pumpions and Venison Deer-skins and a sort of sweet-wood One of our men looking into an Indian basket found a piece of Spanish Rusk it being new we demanded of the Indian where he had it who said Of the Spaniards In the interim while we were talking came a Canoa with four Indians from St. Ellens one standing up and holding a paper in a cleft stick they told us they had brought it from the Spanish Captain at St. Ellens We demanded how many Spaniards were come thither who said Seven and one English-man We received their Letter writ in Spanish but none of us could read it We detained two of the chiefest Indians one of them being the Kings Son of S. Ellens and that kept one of the English prisoners the other two we sent away with a Letter to the Spaniard wherein we gave him to understand that we understood not his letter and told the Indians when they brought the English they should have their men again with satisfaction for their pains On Thursday 24 instant we sayling further up the River to go through at last came to a place of fresh water and Anchored there sending our Boat ashoar with a Guard to get water Towards night came the first Indian that we sent to St. Ellens with a letter to the English who brought us another letter from the Spaniards and an Answer of ours from the English writ in the Spaniards letter The Spaniard sent us a quarter of Venison and a quarter of Pork with a Complement That he was sorry he had no more for us at that time We returned him thanks and sent him a Jug of Brandy and withal that we were sorry we understood not his letter This night about twelve of the Clock we had a most violent gust of winde but of no long continuance On Friday 25 September we weighed and returned down the River six leagues or thereabouts because we perceived the Indians had gathered themselves in a Body from all parts thereabouts and moved as the Ship did and being informed by an Indian that the Spaniards would be there the next day we took in Fire-wood and continued there that night at which time one of our Indian Prisoners made his escape by leaping over-board in the dark On Saturday the 26. we weighed and stood down to the Harbours mouth and stayed there till Monday the 28. In all which time came no one to us though we stay'd in expectation of their coming continually therefore put out to Sea concluding their intentions not to be good Being out of the River Jordan we directed our course S. W. four leagues or thereabouts for Port-Royal to sound the Chanel without from the poynts of the Harbour outwards for we had sounded the Harbour within from the points inward when our Boat was at St. Ellens And now being athwart the Harbours mouth we sent our Boat with the Mate and others who found the N. E. and E. N. E. side of the opening of Port-Royal to be Sholes and Breakers to the middle of the opening and three leagues or thereabouts into the Sea from the side aforesaid is unsafe to meddle with but the S. W. and W. side we found all bold steering in N. N. W. two or three miles from the S. W. shoar sayling directed with the S. W. head-land of the entrance of Port-Royal the said head-land is bluft and seems steep as though the trees hung over the water But you must note that if you keep so far from the S. W. side that you stand in N. N. W. with the bluft head aforesaid you shall go over the Out-skirt of the E. N. E. sholing and shall have but three or four fathom for the space of one league or thereabouts and then you shall have six and seven fathoms all the way in But if you borrow more on the S. W. side till you have brought the S. W. head of the Entry to bear N. N. E. you shall have a fair large Chanel of six seven and eight fathoms all the way in and then five six seven and eight fathoms within the Harbour keeping the Chanel and standing over to the Northward we supposed that it flows here as at the River Jordan because they are but four leagues asunder and flows S. E. and N. W. seven foot and half and sometimes eight foot perpendicular the Mouth of Port-Royal lyes in 32 deg 20 min. lat Now as concerning the entrance of the River Jordan lat 32 deg 30 min. or thereabouts you shall see a range of Breakers right against the opening two or three leagues off the S. W. Point which you must leave to the Northward and steer in with the said S. W. Point giving a range of Breakers that runs from the said Point a small birth and you shall have two three and four fathoms at low water and when you come one mile from the Point aforesaid steer over directly to the N. E. Point and you shall have six or seven fathom all the way VVithin the N. W. Point is good Anchoring you shall have five fathoms fair aboard the shoar and you shall have five six seven and eight fathoms sayling all along upon the River ten leagues and a large turning Chanel It flows here S. E. and N. W. seven foot and a half and eight foot at common Tydes The River Grandy or as the Indians call it Edistow lyes six leagues or thereabouts from the River Jordan and seems to be a very fair opening but because the chief Indian of that Place was on board us and the

Licensed JUNE 22. 1664. Roger L'Estrange A RELATION OF A Discovery lately made on the Coast of FLORIDA From Lat. 31. to 33 Deg. 45 Min. North-Lat By William Hilton Commander and Commissioner with Capt. Anthony Long and Peter Fabian in the Ship Adventure which set Sayl from Spikes Bay Aug. 10. 1663. and was set forth by several Gentlemen and Merchants of the Island of BARBADOES Giving an account of the nature and temperature of the Soyl the manners and disposition of the Natives and whatsoever else is remarkable therein Together with Proposals made by the Commissioners of the Lords Proprietors to all such persons as shall become the first Setlers on the Rivers Harbors and Creeks there LONDON Printed by J. C. for Simon Miller at the Star neer the West-end of St. Pauls 1664. A true Relation of a Voyage upon discovery of part of the Coast of FLORIDA from the Lat. of 31 Deg. to 33 Deg. 45 m. North Lat. in the Ship Adventure William Hilton Commander and Commissioner with Captain Anthony Long and Peter Fabian set forth by several Gentlemen and Merchants of the Island of Barbadoes sailed from Spikes Bay Aug. 10. 1663. AFTER Sixteen days of fair weather and prosperous windes Wednesday the 26 instant four of the clock in the Afternoon God be thanked we espied Land on the Coast of Florida in the lat of 32 deg 30 min. being four Leagues or thereabouts to the Northwards of Saint Ellens having run five hundred and fifty Leagues and to the Westward of the Meridian of Barbadoes three hundred thirty and one Leagues This Evening and the Night following we lay off and on Thursday the 27th instant in the morning we stood in with the Land and coasted the Shoar to the Southward Ankering at Nights and sending our Boat out a Mornings till we came into the lat of 31 deg but found no good harbour that way On Sunday the 30th instant we tacked and stood Northward and on Wednesday the second of September we came to an Anchor in five fathoms at the mouth of a very large opening of three Leagues wide or thereabouts in the lat of 32 deg 30 min. and sent our Boat to sound the Channel On Thursday the third we entered the Harbour and found that it was the River Jordan and was but four Leagues or thereabouts N. E. from Port Royal which by the Spanyards is called St. Ellens within Land both Rivers meet in one We spent some time to sound the Chanels both without and within and to search the Rivers in several branches and to view the Land On Saturday the fifth of September two Indians came on Board us from the N. E. shoar whom we entertained courteously and afterwards set them on shoar On Sunday the sixth several Indians came on Board us and said they were of St. Ellens being very bold and familiar speaking many Spanish words as Cappitan Commarado and Adues They know the use of Guns and are as little startled at the firing of a Peece of Ordnance as he that hath been used to them many years they told us the nearest Spanyards were at St. Augustins and several of them had been there which as they said was but ten days journey and that the Spanyards used to come to them at Saint Ellens sometimes in Canoa's within Land at other times in small Vessels by Sea which the Indians describe to have but two Masts They invited us to come to St. Ellens with our Ship which they told us we might do within Land Munday the 14 September our Long-Boat went with twelve hands within Land to St. Ellens On Wednesday the 16th came five Indians on board us one of them pointing to another said he was the Grandy Captain of Edistow whereupon we took especial notice of him and entertained him accordingly giving him several Beads other trade that pleased him well He invited us to bring up our Ship into a branch on the N. E. side and told us of one Captain Francisco and four more English that were in his custody on shoar whereupon we shewed him store of all Trade as Beads Hoes Hatchets and Bills c. and said he should have all those things if he would bring the English on board us which he promised should be done the next day Hereupon we wrote a few lines to the said English fearing it to be a Spanish delusion to entrap us In the dark of the same Evening came a Canoa with nine or ten Indians in her with their Bowes and Arrows and were close on board before we did discern them We haled them but they made us no answer which increased our jealousie So we commanded them on board and disarmed them detaining two of them prisoners and sending away the rest to fetch the English which if they brought they should have theirs again At length they delivered us a Note written with a coal which seemed the more to continue our jealousie because in all this time we had no news of our long-boat from St. Ellens which we feared was surprized by the Indians and Spanyards But to satisfie us that there were English on shoar they sent us one man on board about twelve of the clock in the Night who related to us the truth of the matter and told us they were cast away some four or five leagues to the North-ward of the place we then rode on the 24th of July past being thirteen persons that came on shoar whereof three of them were kill'd by the Indians On Thursday the 17th of September the Long-boat returned from St. Ellens which presently we sent on shoar to fetch the other English the Indians delivering us three more and coming abroad themselves we delivered them their two men Then we demanded of the chief Commander where the rest of our English were he answered Five were carried to St. Ellens three were killed by the Stonohs and the other man we should have within two dayes We replyed to him again That we would keep him and two more of his chief men till we had our English that were yet living and promised them their liberty with satisfaction for bringing us the English Now to return to the businesse of our Design the entertainment we had at S. Ellens put us in great fear of the Indians treachery for we observed their continual gathering together and at last began with stern-look'd countenances to speak roughly to us and came to search our mens Bandileers and Pockets yet inviting us to stay that night with them but we made a sudden retreat to our Boat which caused the Indian King to be in a great rage speaking loud and angry to his men the drift of which discourse we understood not That which we noted there was a fair house builded in the shape of a Dove-house round two hundred foot at least compleatly covered with Palmeta-leaves the wal-plate being twelve foot high or thereabouts within lodging Rooms and Forms two pillars at the entrance of a