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A54990	A description of the province of New Albion and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely, and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : with a briefe of the charge of victuall, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master 50 l. per annum, or more in twelve trades, and at 10 l. charges onely a man.	Plantagenet, Beauchamp.; Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2378; ESTC R10729	28,128	32

then we come to the Fals made by a rock of lime-stone as I suppose it is about sixty and five leagues from the sea near to which is an Isle fit for a City all materials there to build and above the river fair and navigable as the Indians inform me for I went but ten miles higher I doe account all the Indians to be eight hundred and are in severall factions and war against the Sasquehannocks and are all extream fearfull of a gun naked and unarmed against our shot swords and pikes I had some bickering with some of them and they are of so little esteem as I durst with fifteen men sit down or trade in despight of them and since my return eighteene Swedes are settled there and so sometime sixe Dutch doe in a boat trade without fear of them I saw there an infinite quantity of Bustards Swans Geese and Fowl covering the shoares as within the like multitude of Pigeons and store of Turkies of which I tried one to weigh forty and sixe pounds There is much variety and plenty of delicate fresh and sea-fish and shell-fish and Whales or Grampus Elks Deere that bring three young at a time and the woods bestrewed many moneths with Chest-nuts Wall-nuts Mast of severall sorts to feed them and Hogs that would increase exceedingly There the barren grounds have four kindes of Grapes and many Mulberries with Ash Elms and the tallest and greatest Pines and pitch-Pitch-trees that I have seen There are Cedars Cypresse and Saffafras with wilde fruits pears wilde cherries pine-apples and the dainty Parsemenas And there is no question but Almonds and other fruits of Spain will prosper as in Virginia And which is a good comfort in four and twenty houres you may send or goe by sea to New England or Virginia with a fair winde you may have cattle and from the Indians two thousand barrels of corn at twelve pence a bushell in truck so as victuals are there cheaper and better then to be transported Neither doe I conceive any great need of a Fort or Charge where there is no enemy If my Lord Palatine will bring with him three hundred men or more there is no doubt but that he may doe very well and grow rich for it is a most pure healthfull air such pure wholesome springs rivers and waters as are delightfull of a Desert as can be seen with so many varieties of severall flowers trees and forests for swine So many fair risings and prospects all green and verdant and Maryland a good friend and neighbour in four twenty houres ready to comfort and supply And truly I beleeve my Lord of Baltamore wil be glad of my Lord Palatines Plantation and assistance against any enemy or bad neighbour And if my Lord Palatine employ some men to sow flaxe hemp and rapes in those rich Marishes or build ships and make pipe-staves and load some ships with these wares or fish from the Northward he may have any money ware or company brought him by his own ships or the ships of Virginia or New England all the year And because your Honour is of the noble house of the Pawlets and as I am informed desire to lead many of your friends kindred thither whom as I honour I desire to serve I shall intreat you to beleeve mee as a Gentleman and Christian I write you nothing but the truth and hope there to take opportunity in due season to visit you and doe all the good offices in Virginia my place or friends can serve you in And thus tendring my service I rest Madam Your Honours most humble faithfull servant Robert Evelin CHAP. IV. NOw since Master Elmes letter and seven years discoveries of the Lord Governour in person and by honest traders with the Indians wee finde beside the Indian Kings by him known and printed in this Province there is in all twenty three Indian Kings or chief Commanders and besides the number of 800 by him named there is at least 1200 under the two Raritan Kings on the North side next to Hudsons river and those come down to the Ocean about little Egbay and Sandy Barnogate and about the South cape two small Kings of forty men a piece called Tirans and Tiascons and a third reduced to fourteen men at Roymont the Sasquehannocks are not now of the Naturals left above 110 though with their forced Auxiliaries the Ihon a Does and Wicomeses they can make 250 these together are counted valiant terrible to other cowardly dul Indians wch they beat with the sight of guns only but in truth meeting with English are the basest cowards of all though cunning and subtile to intrap and surprise on all straits coverts reeds and ambushes for at the last Maryland March against them these 250 having surprised in the reeds and killed five English men with the losse of one of theirs Captain Cornwallis that noble right valiant and politick soldier losing but one man more killed with fifty five of his and but raw and tired Marylanders twenty nine Indians as they confessed though compassed round with two hundred and fifty and Summer was twelve moneth Captain Lewis of Maryland at the Coves drawing but twenty men out of his winde bound Sloupes and in two small Cocke-boates much distant finding twenty four Canoes and therein an hundred and forty Sasquehannocks reduced by these three Swedes into a half moon with intent to encompasse the first small boat before the second could reach the former at the first volley of ten sho● and losse of one Indian they run all away for note generally twelve English with five foot Calivers shoot thirty pellets or dagge shot and fifty yards distance and the naked Indian shooteth but one arrow and but thirty yards distance so as his Lordship knoweth well with such a squadron of twelve or thirteen mark-men to encounter three hundred and to bring by the lock the proudest Sagamoore to bee ransomed for any Trespasse and not to suffer any Indian or trader without his Lordships badge or stamped livery worn to come within twenty miles of his Plantation or ten miles of their Cattle as in all the out-skirts of Virginia is used but to kill them Insomuch as the Emperour Nicotowance saying was my countrymen tell me I am a lier when I tell them the English men will kill you if you goe into their bounds but valiant Captain Freeman made him no lier when lately he killed three Indians so without badge incroaching And therfore fair and far off is best with Heathen Indians and fit it is to reduce all their trading to five Ports or Pallisadoed trucking houses and to kill all straglers and such spies without ransome Then shall christians and their cattle be safe and quiet and severely putting to death all that sell the Indians guns arms and ammunition then Indians are sooner ruled civilized and subjected as in New England is daily seen In Long Isle are about four Kings and eight hundred Bow-men most

of them two hundred miles off his Lps seat of Watcessit in Charles river these of Long Isle are well civilized living within ten miles and in sight of eight thousand English in that part of New England being and the five towns in Connectacute river and New Haven town being populous discourageth any hostility but chiefly his Lordships sixe good free-holding towns in Long Isle is a bridle to check and contain them for Southhampton Hempsteed Flushing Gravesand and Ainsford are placed like distinct Garisons to command them Then between the two South Capes there are two petty Kings called Aquats and little Matankin having both an hundred Bow-men and above Watcessit South-west are the black and white Mincos neer three hundred men being speciall friends to Watcessit and enemies to the Sasquehannocks Now for choice seats for English Watcessit first where were seventy English as Master Miles deposeth he swearing the officers there to his Majesties allegiance and to obedience to your Lordship as Governour being twenty one leagues up Delaware Bay in Charles river to which any ship may come and about it Manteses plain which Master Evelin avoucheth to be twenty miles broad and thirty long 50 miles washed by two fair navigable rivers and is 300000 acres fit to plow and sow all Corn Tobacco and Flaxe and Rice the four staples of Albion The second seat is three miles off to Watcessit adjoyning to Charles and Cotton river so named of six hundred l. of Cotton wilde on trees growing and is called Ritchneck being twenty four miles compasse one wood huge Timber trees and two foot black mould much desired of the Virginians to plant Tobacco they alledging each plant there dried and cured will bring a pound whereas wom land five and sixe to a pound and these large leaves in the new land and freshes serve to lap up all the bad S. Christophers and Barbadoes rolled Tobacco and maketh it fire sooner of the three upper leaves they make Varinas and Spanish The Dutch give for this double price and the English double for sweet sented and though Charles river is 120 miles North of James river in Virginia yet having a more farre constant and tempered growing heat Tobacco three years together tried is riper and sooner struck by wet seasons by full three weeks then in Virginia and hath yeelded double the price and no doubt Cotton will grow as in Millain being three degrees more North-ward though as there it dieth yearly by frost is re-planted by the seed as a Rosebush giveth a full cod The third seat is at Roymont a strong rich and fit place for a Fort Sir Walter Rawley left there thirty men and four guns the Dutch seated there fifteen men and a Fort both to plant in that rich five miles neck to Roymont river which runneth down into Chisapoack Bay choice Tobacco and thereby to prejudice and undersell Virginia as to set up a fishing Stage for Whales these proved but Grampus and they killing basely an Indian refusing quarter or ransome were by the Indians killed and expelled twenty years since This place is close to the In-south Cape having a Creek of sixe foot water only and two furlongs of the grand Delaware Bay on one side is an Isthmos or Penisle nine miles compasse fit for pasturage and Hogs and Goats and on the other side is a second Isthmos four miles compasse easily fenced and is but sixty miles over land to the Northermost and neerest part of Virginia to drive cattle by land and have supplies by horse and foot and here is never ice or frost sea-fish all oysters and shell-fish and fowl all winter Cod to lade ships three moneths after December fit for salt and trade and there is a poor Indian of fourteen men only and weak to hinder any all the soile is under a brick earth stone slat hard by and timber to build The fourth seat is Vvedale under Websneck and is a valley sixe miles long sheltred by hils from the North-west windes below it is sixe miles a thicket of four sorts of excellent great Vines running on Mulberry and Sassafras trees there are four sorts of Grapes the first is the Tholouse Muscat sweet sented the second the great foxe and thick Grape after five moneths reaped being boyled and salted and well fined it is a strong red Xeres the third a right Claret the fourth a white Grape creeps on the land maketh a pure gold colour white wine Tenis Pale the French man of these four made eight sorts of excellent wine and of the Muscat acute boyled that the second draught will fox a reasonable pate four moneths old and here may be gathered and made two hundred tun in the Vintage moneth re-planted will amend two other valleys there are of the same Grapes and large above Vvedale the hill is called Websneck environed with three rivers round one of sixteen foot water navigable all but a neck a caliver shot over easily imparked being 9000 acres the cliffes all of rich black mould with huge timber trees most fit for Tobacco and Corn not far off are rich lead mines containing silver tried and iron stone and by it waters and fals to drive them in an inhabited desert no Christians or Indians neer it where Elkes Stagges and Deer are most quiet most fat and not disturbed so as five men in three or four days kill and salt sixty Deer or an hundred twenty sides for Summers food four or five hundred Turkeyes in a flock Swans Hoopers Geese Ducks Teles and other Fowles a mile square and seven mile together on the shores for here is all Ches-nuts Wall-nuts and Mast berries and March feeds wilde Oats and Vetches to feed them Neer hand is also in August Custard apples and Papawes to make the best Perry English for 100 tun in a place and all Plums Hurtleberries Black Cherries wilde Anniseed Perfimenas and other dainty fruits and roots are had as in all the huge long Meads and Marshes sweet seg roots ground nuts Tucaho and Cuttinamon roots for Hogs and whole Warrens and berries of sweet Muskerats and here black Bears and Lions feeding on sweet foods are killed and eaten In the head of Chisepeack river by Tomkins and Walton was seen a Camell Mare brown black seven foot high of which 300 mile West-ward are store their skins brought and sold by the Indians confirm it The fifth seat is Brents fort a steep rock invincible and not to be battered having an Isthmos of low hard ground like a Tongue below it environed with fresh water and under it a Cove close to hide two ships or gallies ships of 500 tun may come up to it and hard by is good Mead and rich land and Woods to plant and in this desert is best living stored as before with all game and their food to maintain them The sixt is an I le called Palmers I le containing 300 acres half meade halfe wood in it is a rock forty foot high like