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A24051	An Abstract or abbreviation of some few of the many (later and former) testimonys from the inhabitants of New-Jersey and other eminent persons who have wrote particularly concerning that place		1681 (1681)	Wing A147; ESTC R6922	21,948	34

liberty and property are to be made All which are such pristine and certain methods for maintaining the just right and equal utility of the whole Community that I do not see the most Capricious can assign wherein it is either faulty in exceeding or deficient in falling short of the most Ancient true English and best Christian Government in the World Wherefore I am satisfied it will not now be long before New-Jersey be peopled And Sir since the Government thereof is settled in so Generous and Worthy a Hand as your own at which I can assure you very many Honest and Sober People in these Parts as well as those more direct of your Own Way greatly rejoyce and fervently desire to see you in America but for ought I know none more than doth SIR Your Faithful Friend to Serve You Robert Smythe 20 th Arill 1681. AN EXSTRACT Out of a Small Treatise Wrote By BEAVCHAMP PLANTAGENET Concerning The Province of New-Albion in the Year 1648. Since Granted by the King to the Duke of York Of which New-Jersey is a Part. IN his Epistle pag. 4. he adviseth to follow Old Cato's Rule To seat in a pure Healthy Air else after all Charges of Settling and Building the People Dye and their Posterity Extinguish Secondly To sit down upon a Navigable-River for Trade and Supply For this Reason I on my View disliked Virginia most of it being seated scatteringly and among Salt-Marshes and Creeks worse than Essex-Thanet and Kent for Agues and Diseases Brackish-Waters to Drink and Use and a Flat Standing-Water in Woods breed a double Corrupt Aire so the Elements are Corrupted Chapter the 2d Page the 18th 19th WHereas that Part of America lying about Thirty-Nine Degrees at Delaware-Bay is Situate in the best and same Temper and as Italy between too Cold Germany and too Hot Barbary so This lying mid-way between New England Two Hundred Miles North and Virginia a Hundred and Fifty Miles South is freed from the Extream Cold and Barrenn●ss of the One and Heat and Anguish-Marshes of the Other and is like Lombardy a Rich Fat Soyl and Plain and having Thirty-Four Rivers on the main Land and partaketh of the Healthiest Air and most Excellent Commodities of Europe and replenished with the Goodliest Woods of Oaks and all Timber for Ships and Masts Mulberries for Silk sweet Cypres Cedars Pines and Furs Four sorts of Grapes for Wine and Raisings and great variety of choice Fruits Fis● and Fowl stored with all sorts of Corn yielding Five Seven and Ten Quarters on an Acre Silk-Grass Salt Good Mines and Dyers-Ware Five sorts of Deer Buffs and Huge Elkes to Plow and Work bringing Three Young at once The Vplands covered many Months with Berries Roots Ches-nuts Wall-nuts Beech and Oak Mast for them Hogs Turkies Five hundred in a Flock Many Thousands of Acres of plain Mead-Land fit for Corn Rice Flax Hemp c. And that this is the True State of the Country lying on the Bay and River of Delaware he affirms is testifyed under the several Hands of those who had been and Traded there And is farther witnessed by Capt. Smith New-England's Prospect Capt. Powell's Map and other Descriptions of New-England and Virginia Subscribed by Capt. Brown Capt. Clayborne Robert Evelin Stafford Constantine Stratton Thomas White Richard Buckham Christopher Thomas Edward Monmouth Tenis Paley Edward Rhodes Page the 20 21. of the same Treatise An Extract of Robert Evelin's Discription of the Land lying between the Rivers of Delaware and Hudsons River The which is Now called New-Jersey THat Ocean Sea I take to be about one hundred sixty miles and I find some broken Land Isles and In-ters and many small Isles at Eg-Harbor but going to Delaware-bay by Cape May which I understand is very well set out in Captain Powels Map on that North-side about five miles up within is a Port or Road for any Ships called the Nook And Twelve Leagues higher a little above the Bay and Bar is the River of Manteses which hath Twenty miles on Charles River and Thirty Miles running up a fair Navigable deep River all a flat level of rich fat black Mold which I think to be about 300000 Acres Next above about Six Leagues is a Fair deep River Twelve Miles Navigable where is Free stone The next Asomoeches River The next is Eriwomick a King of Forty men And five miles above the King of Ramock and four miles higher the King of Axion And next to him Ten Leagues over Land and Inland King of Calcefar And Six Leagues higher is a Creek call'd Mosilian and then we come to the Falls made by a Rock of Lime-stone I suppose it is about Sixty five Leagues from the Sea near to which is an Isle fit for a City all Materials there on to build And above the Falls the River-Fair and Navigable as the Indians inform'd me for I went but Ten Miles higher I do account all the Indians to be about eight hundred I saw there an infinite Quantity of Bustands Swans Geese and Fowl covering the shoars As within Land the like multitude of Pigeons and store of Turkeys of which I tryed one to weigh Forty Six pounds There is much variety and plenty of delicate Fresh and Sea Fish And Elks and Dear that bring three young ones at a time And the woods are strewed many Months with Chesnuts Wall-Nuts and Mast of several sorts to feed them The Barren grounds have four kinds of Grapes and Mulberrys with Ash Elme and the Talest and greatest Pines and Pich-Trees that I have seen There are several Wild Fruits as the pine Aple the dainty Parsemenas c. I shall entreat you to believe me as a Gentleman and a Christian I write nothing but the truth Subscribed Robert Evelin POST-SCRIPT THere might have been Publish'd at least a Hundred Letters or Testimonies more very lately written from the Inhabitants of New-Jersey in Praise of that Country AND NOW Settlement thereof Which are forborn to be emitted lest therby any should be induced or perswaded without due Consideration to incline for New-Jersey in their own Wills Therefore before any determine a Removal to New-Jersey let them weigh and consider the Matter well And that all may see their Way clear before they stir therein Is the Vnfeigned Desire of the Publisher hereof † Since when the Customs are taken off and the Government settled † Who was greatly troubled with a Cough heretofore † This Peter Alrick was the Person that formerly used to Collect the Customs † Vpon which Isle Burlington is now built

which according to an ordinary Calculation is but Three Weeks Sail and the Transportation is accounted but half at most Fourthly That in this Province there is not only as good Iron-Mines as are in any Parts of the World but also great Conveniency from the Multitude of Brooks for Iron-Mills which in the making thereof would also clear the Ground of Wood and fit it for Planting Fifthly That Vines grow naturally all over this Province of which Wild as they are Wines and very Good Brandy have been made And I am well assured if those Vines were Transplanted and Cultivated accordingly there might be Rich and Generous Wines made in the West-Part of New-Jersey But if Vine-Stocks of the Greek Calabrian and Cyprian with the Candian-Grapes were Transplanted into this Province those Countries where these Grapes are in Perfection lying parallel to This there would certainly be a Staple which may enrich both England and all those Countries to the Envy of France and Spain Sixthly That the Art Use and Excellency of the Silk-Worm might be had in this Province with great Conveniency the Mulberry-Trees growing there Wild very numerous and the Leaves to be had for gathering whereas the French Nobility and Gentry make a Great Revenue of Mulberry-Trees besides their Fruits the Leaves of every Tree being Farmed in Languedoc and Provence as in Goodness from Five Shillings to Twenty Shillings and upwards per Annum The Duke of Tuscany raised Anno 1671. Sixty Thousand Ducats on the Leaves of Mulberry-Trees alone as he doth Yearly about the same Sum. Monsieur Le Telliere Great Uncle to the Marquess of Lovoy Secretary of State to the present French King writ Observations on this Subject Anno 1636. affirming That Silk-Worms were Transported out of Asia into Italy in the Year 1540. and that they had not been in Languedoc and Provence in France above Sixty Years yet the Revenue of Silk in those Provinces was more worth both to the King and Nobility than the Product of Wine Oyl Woad and all other Fruits whatsoever Monsieur Agume in his Observations on that Subject Printed at Lyons Anno 1654. sayes That in Forty Years the making of Silk in the South of France had brought into the Exchecquer or Financy of that Crown Fifty Seven Millions of Livers which is about One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds per Annum Custom for the Raw Silk only It is admirable to behold how these Silk-Worms store up the Disposing-Matter from whence the Silk comes the which by an Incomprehensible Mystery of Nature they Vomit forth 〈◊〉 their Mouths and spin out of their Bowels And whatever is done of this kind in France may much more and to greater Advantage be accomplished in the South-West-Part of New-Jersey whose Position of Latitude is nearer the Sun than any Part of France The Air of this Province is very Serene Sweet and Wholsome which renders the Clime much more agreeable to European Bodies than the severe Colds of New-England or the sulphurous Heat in Virginia where I say the Bogs Marshes and corrupt Standing-Waters have ever been very Noxious to the Planter The Soyl of this Province is very Rich and Fruitful and for the most part upon a Rising Level and where it is interlaced with Hills they are rather Gradual Prospects than troublesom Ascents for above an Hundred Miles from the Sea And where it is any whit Mountainous or Rocky there are also Valleys extream Rich and Fertile Besides those Mountains have store of Black-Lead Allom Sulphur Copper c. the which is confirmed by the Writings of Tararapha and Monsieur Gallane Son to the present President of Nants a Person of great Quality who spent the Years 1668 69 and 70. in the Discovery of most of the Lakes Mountains and Countries West from Quebeck to the Bay of Florida which is beyond Carolina This Gentleman gave me leave to read his Journal wherein he affirms That betwixt the Head of Delaware and the Lake Ontaria there are Mines of Sulphur Allom Lead Copper c. Sir I mention This as well for your own Curiosity as that such a Trade may be worth looking after when it shall please God to put those that settle your Colony in a condition to manage it which I do assure you in due time may be done to Immense Advantage And now Sir I shall come to some other Observations of my own having formerly drawn a particular Map of your Colony with my own Hand by the Sea from Sandy-point and up the River to the Isle of Matinicocks and for my own Satisfaction did as of other Parts of America ever make it my Business to discover not only the Scituation of Places but also the Original Discoverers the several Governors and their respective Fortunes the most Remarkable Distempers or Diseases the Commodities both Natural and Accidental what Advantage might be made by Trade what Places were more or less Tenable by Nature and what made Strong by Fortification in what Manner and to what Degree Moreover how those Colonies have Prospered or Declined in Trade Increased or Decreased in Number of Inhabitants from Europe and the proper Causes thereof together with the Governments Customs and Commodities of the several Indian-Natives and what Advantage might be made of those Innocent Good-natur'd Creatures in point of Trade c. And this South-West-Part of New-West-Jersey came not only under this my General Survey but having had a Concern in those Parts with the Dutch it fell more particularly under my Consideration The Longitude of this Place is Calculated to be from Three Hundred and Eleven to Three Hundred and Eight Degrees and bounded betwixt Thirty-Nine and Forty-Three Degrees of Latitude North from the Aequator Sir Having before spoken of the Agreeableness of the Air I shall only say in general that the West-Part of New-Jersey is by Nature sliced into a bundance of Rivers and Riv'leis which every way glide in Deep and Navigable Channels either for Shipping or Boats betwixt the Breast of this Your plentiful Country which highly contributes to its Conveniency Beauty and Fertility These Rivers are also abundantly stored with all the species of the Fish of Europe and both larger and better tasted being great Quantities of Sturgeon in the River of Delaware with divers other Fish peculiar only to that Clime as Quictars Dramps Porgies or Sheep-Heads Cony-Fish-Misyqua's many others not seen in any Part of Europe whose names at present I remember not but these in particular are delicate Fish As also Land and Sea-Foul in abundance of all the sorts in Europe and some peculiar to that Country as of Fish not any where in the Europaean World that ever I saw The Fruits of your Province are all sorts of Delicate Melons Apples Pears Damsons and all other sorts of Plumbs Apricocks Peaches and Malagotoons Cherries of several kinds Quinces Marucas Grapes of Six sorts I have seen Puchamines Walnuts Chesnuts Strawberries Rasberries Currans Red and White Gooseberries and a great