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To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of William Dyre Gent
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Dyer, William, of Rhode Island.
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1670
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Wing D2948A; ESTC R215315
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many Commodious and profitable Saw-mills for cutting Plank Timber and Boards THat part of America called Province of Mayn takes its beginning at the entrance of Pascataway River extending up the same to the River Newchewannick to the extream part thereof and from thence North-West 120 miles and from the mouth of Pascataway River aforesaid North-Eastward along the Sea-coast to Sagadehock and up the same to Kenebeck-River as far as the head thereof comprehending several Islands in the Sea viz. the North half of the Isles of Shoalds Nantucket Martins-Vineyard Capanawagon Richmonds-Island the Clap-board Islands and sundry others of very great importance for Fishing Farming and Planting The Climate and Air of this Province as well as that of New-Hampshire is Temperate Sweet Cleer and Healthy the Soyles Fertile the Harbors Ports and Havens commodious and safe and the Countrey every where well furnished with Rivers Brooks Lakes Ponds Streams and Springs with store of champion-Champion-Ground Ranges Level-Land Meadows Swamps Thickets Marches Uplands Hills and fruitful valleys where growes Tall Cedars sturdy Oaks brave Elmes tough Walnut and streight Chesnut Trees Fragrant Birch brown Beech and multitude of Ash Maple Asp Holly Ivie Hazle Hawthorne Shumach Willow Buttonwood Alder Poplar and Sassafras with curious Cypress Fir Sprewse and Pines of a vast magnitude and the most incomparable Timber for building Ships in the World There are also plenty of Vines which naturally yield three sorts of pleasant Grapes the first a large Whitish and mellifluous Grape the second a Purple colour of the same size and very delicious the third a small Black Winter-grape somewhat tart but very wholsome and good As for Orchard and Garden-Fruits there are Apples of all sorts Pears of most kinds Peaches Malagatoons Quinces Apricocks Plums Cherries Currants Hurts Strawberries Cramberries and Blewberries also Musk-mellons Water-mellons and Cucumbers with all manner of Plants Herbs and Roots each Tree Herb Plant and Root according to its kind brings forth Nuts Berries Fruit and Seeds The Pastures are cloathed with Grass and the Fields produce plenty of Wheat Pease Barly Rye and Oats with some other sorts of Grain in which Fields and Grounds are bred and raised huge droves of good Cattel Horses Sheep and Hogs But the natural inhabitants of the abovesaid Woods Hills and Swamps are incredible numbers of wild Beasts as Bears Moose Deer Wolves Foxes Bevers Otters Minks Martins Musquashes Sables Squirils Rackoons Wild-Cats Hedg-hogs Porcupines Wild Rabbets Hares and Woodchucks The Bowels of the Earth being no less enricht with plenty of Iron Ore Tin Copper Lead Coals Sulphur and other Minerals which voluntarily offer themselves to publick view without searching after as if Nature were willing to discover and disburthen her self of what our Ingenuities are slow in seeking Nor know I any reason why Richer Mines should not there be found as well as in the Neighbor-Colonies in regard there is more external probality and visible encouragement in these Provinces then was in any of them The Production of the Rivers Lakes and Ponds is infinite quantities of fresh-water Fish as Bass Salmon Trouts Carp Perch Pinkerin and Pouts also the Salt-water and Sea-coasts abounding with Whales Grampuses Seals Herring-hogs Porposes Sharks Dog-fish Sturgeon Hollibut Cod Haddock Hake Pollock Mackeril Soles Scate Alewives Smelts Eeles Lamprons Frost-fish Cole Thornback Herrings Capeline and Shad and of Shell-fish there be Lobsters Muscles Oysters Crabs Perriwinkles Tortoise Clams Cockles and Scollops The Islands adjacent together with the Woods Sea Rivers and Shoares yield swarms of Fowl and Birds as Turkeys Pheasants Heath-hens Partridges Quailes Eagles Hawks Ravens Crowes Stares Owles Cormorants Cranes Bitterns Herns Kites Pidgeons Thrushes Turtle-doves Swans Geese Brants Murrs Penguins Mallard Teal and VVidgins with abundance of other Sea-fowle and small Birds all which variety of Creatures being there placed by the infinite Providence of Almighty God are so beneficial for the subsistance of Mankind as contributes much to the Peopling and Planting of that Countrey which in the Summer is most delightful and pleasant by the lovely shady Groves sweet singing Birds and cool Christal springs VVherefore if the great worth and intrinsick value of the aforesaid Provinces were duly considered and by Your Majesties Gracious Favour brought under the obedience of Your Royal Authority there are certain and almost incredible advantages to be made as well conducible to Your Majesties benefit the honour of Your Crown and Dignity as also to the publick good of that place aâ—â— this Nation as may appear in the several particulars following Imprimis Were the Provinces of Mayn and New-hampshire Purchased by Your Majesty your Majesty hath then the absolute real actual Dominion and Soveraignty of those Seas with the sole propriety and benefit of all Fishing used on the Coasts of New-England and may at your Royal Pleasure settle a Duty or Impost upon all Fisheries there without intrenching upon the Liberties of the Bostoners Patent the abrogation of their Priviledges or the least wrong to the Inhabitants and also in a short time reduce or win those of the Massathusets and Plymouth Colonies to a ready Subjection and compleat Obedience 2. From hence Your Majesty may be at all times both in Peace and War supplyed with Masts Tarr Timber Plank Boards and Pipe-staves at a much cheaper and easier rate then now your Majesty is or by any other means can be wherein consists very much the safety of your Majesties Maritime Affairs 3. In these Provinces your Majesty may settle a very considerable and profitable Trade with the Indians for Beaver and all other peltry in regard they border so near upon Nova-scotia and are as well furnished with Lakes Ponds and Rivers as that Countrey is and also with little charge improve all Mines and Minerals of worth there 4. By Your Majesties being the 〈…〉 of your Subjects the prosperity of Your Plantations the encouragement of Trade Navigation and Commerce be inexpressibly advanced by uniting the Colonies and securing the Ports and Countrey from invasion 5. To the aforesaid places Your Majesty may in time of peace imploy some of Your great Flemish Prizes to bring over Masts Deales Timber and Staves which will be of singular benefit both to Your Majesty and this Nation 6. By having the Propriety of these Provinces Your Majesty will receive a considerable Revenue out of the Fish taken and made there as also by a small Duty upon all kind of Timber and Raft that shall be Exported which will be advantagious and of great value in regard those Commodities are not to be had in any other part of New-England but in the Provinces of New-hampshire and Mayne which may now be Your Majesties for a small sum of Money or Trifle compared with their true value and Consequences These particulars are in all Humility Duty and submissive Obedience Laid at Your Majesties Feet and most Loyally proposed by a Faithful Subject to the end Your Sacred Majesty may be Absolute in your Soveraignty Greater in Riches Name and Power and that Your Royal Commands may be with reverence obeyed Your Majesties Laws executed the Protestant Religion cherished the Priviledges of Your Majesties Subjects enlarged Learning propagated and all Vertue encouraged And that Your Majesties good Subjects in those parts may not only have the Name of Your Majesty but also Your Power amongst them and thereby live Peaceably Happily and Quietly under Your Majesties Royal Government which Heaven grant may be long long and Prosperous FINIS