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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

send a Boat when you discover the Points of St. Ellens may hoist an Ancient two or three times and I will do the same I desire your Answer may be sodain for I am scarce of Provisions and the way is somewhat long and if you have no body who understands Spanish you may write in English for here are your Countreymen who will interpret it By the Captain Alanso Arguiles From St. Ellens Septemb. 23. 1663. Proposals made to all such Persons as shall undertake to become the first Setlers on Rivers Harbours or Creeks whose Mouth or Entrance is Southwards or Westwards of Cape St. Romana in the Province of Carolina and execute the same at their own hazard and charge of Transportation Ammunition and Provision as is hereafter expressed c. I. IMprimis It is agreed and consented to by us Thomas Mudyford and Peter Colleton Esquires who are impowered by the Lords Proprietors to treat in their behalf That in consideration of the good service which Captain Anthony Long Captain William Hilton and Mr. Peter Fabian have done in making so clear a Discovery on that Coast They shall each of them enjoy to them and their Heirs for ever one thousand Acres of Land apiece upon the said River Harbour or Creeks on such places as they shall desire not taken up before II. Item To Master Pyam Blowers and Master John Hancock five hundred Acres apiece in manner as 〈…〉 Ship one hundred Acres apiece in manner as aforesaid Item 〈…〉 Ship one hundred Acres apiece in manner as aforesaid IV. Item 〈◊〉 every person that hath subscribed and paid or hath subscribed and shall pay within two moneths next after the Date hereof unto the Treasurer appointed by the Committee for defraying the Charge of the 〈◊〉 Discovery and towards the publique Stock five hundred Acres of Land besides what they are otherwayes to receive and enjoy each for every thousand pounds of Sugar and so for greater or lesser quantity proportionably to possesse and enjoy the same in manner as aforesaid the said Adventurers having promised That the severall and respective Persons above-intended shall within five years next ensuing have one Person white or black young or 〈◊〉 transported at their Charge as aforesaid on that or 〈◊〉 other parcel of Land in the Province for every hundred of Acres of Land that is or shall be due to them for their adventures as aforesaid But when once taken up to settle the same within one year after it is once taken up or lose the Land V. Item To every Person that goes or sends an Agent at his or their own cost with the first Ship or Fleet or within six weeks next after the first Ship or Fleet that shall be set out from this Island none to be accompted as first Setters but such as do send in the first Fleet Armed with a good Fire-lock ten pounds of Powder and twenty pounds of Bullet or Lead and Victualled for six moneths shall have one hundred Acres of Land and the like quantity of Acres for every Man servant that he carrieth so armed and provided to the person at whose charge they shall be transported as aforesaid VI. Item To every person that shall second the first undertakers that is to say shall go within two months went after those that are accompted as first Setlers armed and provided as aforesaid seventy Acres of Land and seventy Acres for every Man-servant that he or they shall carry or send Armed and provided as aforesaid VII Item To every person provided as aforesaid that shall go within two years after the first Undertakers fifty Acres of Land and as much to him or them for every Man-servant he or they shall carry or send armed and provided as aforesaid VIII Item To every Free-woman above the age of twelve years that shall go or be carried thither within the first five years forty Acres of Land IX Item To all Male-Children above the age of fourteen years the same quantity that is allowed to Free-men and on the same Conditions X. Item The Lords Proprietors will grant unto every Parish one hundred Acres of Land for the Church and other publique uses XI Item To every person that hath subscribed and shall pay to the above mentioned Discovery who shall go or send an Agent within the first five years next after the first Setlers forty Acres of Land and as much to them for every Man-servant they shall carry or send within that time armed and provided as aforesaid and the like quantity for all others so transporting themselves or servants within the first three years who are not Subscribers XII Item To every Man-servant that shall go with the first Undertakers fifty Acres of Land and to such as go with the second Adventurers thirty Acres and for all other servants that shall go within the first five years twenty Acres and for every Woman-servant ten Acres to become due at the Expiration of the first Term of their servitude in that Countrey XIII Item To the Owner of every Negro-Man or Slave brought thither to settle within the first year twenty acres and for every Woman-Negro or Slave ten acres of Land and all Men-Negro's or slaves after that time and within the first five years ten acres and for every Woman-Negro or slave five acres XIV Item That all the before-mentioned parcels of Land given or to be given allotted or granted to any person or persons whatsoever shall be held and enjoyed to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever in free and common Soccage according to the Tenure of East Greenwich within the County of Kent within the Kingdom of England and not in Capite or by Knights-service paying as a fine once for all to the Lords Proprietors or their Agents impowered to receive the same one half-peny per acre for every Acre of Land that is or shall be taken up as aforesaid or the value of the said half-peny per Acre when the person who is to receive it shall receive his Deed or Copy of Record for his Land so taken up and in lieu of all and all manner of Rents Services Fines Taxes and Impositions whatsoever one ear of Indian Corn for every hundred acres of Land so taken up at a certain time and place prescribed if lawfully demanded XV. Item It is further agreed That every person shall or may take up their Land or any part thereof where they please in any place not before taken up Provided they do therein submit to such Method as the Governor and Council for the time being shall judge most safe and convenient XVI Item That the Lords Proprietors shall grant to the Free-Holders the Priviledge of choosing an annual Assembly wherein by the consent of the said Lords or their Delegates they shall be impowered to make Lawes and them confirm publish and abrogate as in the great Charter is expressed and that the Assembly may lawfully without the consent of the Governour complain to the said Lords of such Grievances as lye upon the People XVII Item That for asmuch as the Lords Proprietors or their Delegates may not be at all times there present to consent to such Lawes as are or shall be thought necessary In such Case all Lawes and Orders made by the Governour Council and Assembly shall be in forte untill the Denyal thereof by the Lords Proprietors shall be to them signified under their Hands in Writing XVIII Item That the said Free-Holders shall have the freedome of Trade Immunity of Customes and Liberty of Conscience and all other Priviledges made good unto them as amply and as fully as is at large expressed in the great Charter granted to the said Lords Proprietors from His Majesty FINIS

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

being very level with steep banks on both sides the River and in some places very high the woods stor'd with abundance of Deer and Turkies every where we never going on shoar but saw of each also Partridges great store Cranes abundance Comes which we saw in several places we heard several Wolves howling in the woods and saw where they had torn a Deer in pieces Also in the River we saw great store of Ducks T●ile VVidgeon and in the woods great flocks of Parrakeeto's the Timber that the woods afford for the most part consisting of Oaks of four or five sorts all differing in leaves but all bearing Akorns very good we measured many of the Oaks in several places which we found to be in bignesse some tvvo some three and others almost four fathoms in height before you come to boughs or limbs forty fifty sixty foot and some more and those Oaks very common in the upper parts of both Rivers Also a very tall large Tree of great bignesse which some do call Cyprus the right name we know not growing in Swamps Likewise Walnut Birch Beech Maple Ash Bay Willough Alder and Holly and in the lowermost parts innumerable of Pines tall and good for boards or masts growing for the most part in barren sandy ground but in some places up the River in good ground being mixed amongst Oaks and other Timber We saw several Mulberry-trees multitudes of Grape-Vines and some Grapes which we did eat of VVe found a very large and good tract of Land on the N. W. side of the River thin of Timber except here and there a very great Oak and full of Grasse commonly as high as a mans middle and in many places to his shoulders where we saw many Deer and Turkies also one Deer with very large horns and great in body therefore called it Stag-Park it being a very pleasant and delightful place we travelled in it several miles but saw no end thereof So we returned to our Boat and proceeded down the River and came to another place some twenty five leagues from the Rivers mouth on the same side where we found a place no lesse delightful than the former and as far as we could judge both Tracts came into one This lower place we called Rocky-point because we found many Rocks and Stones of several bignesse upon the Land which is not common We sent our Boat down the River before us our selves travelling by Land many miles were so much taken with the pleasantnesse of the Land that travelling into the woods so far we could not recover our Boat and company that night On Sunday the morrow following we got to our Boat and on Monday the 16th of November we proceeded down to a place on the East-side of the River some twenty three leagues from the Harbours mouth which we call'd Turkie-Quarters because we killed several Turkies thereabouts VVe viewed the Land there and found some tracts of good Land and high facing upon the River about one mile inward but backwards some two miles all Pine-land but good pasture-ground we returned to our Boat and proceeded down some two or three leagues where we had formerly viewed and found it a tract of as good Land as any we have seen with as good Timber on it The banks of the River being high therefore we called it High-Land Point Having viewed that we proceeded down the River going on shoar in several places on both sides it being generally large Marshes and many of them dry that they may more fitly be called Medows the wood-wood-land against them is for the most part Pine and in some places as barren as ever we saw Land but in other places good Pasture ground And on Tuesday the 17th instant we got aboard our Ship riding against the mouth of Green's River where our men are providing wood and fitting the Ship for the Sea In the interim we took some view of the Land on both sides of the River there finding some good Land but more bad and the best not comparable to that above Friday the 20th instant was foul weather yet in the Afternoon we weighed and went down the River some two leagues and came to Anchor against the mouth of Hilton's River and took some view of the Land there on both sides which appeared to us much like unto that at Green's River Monday 23. we went with our Long-boat well victualled and manned up Hilton's River and when we came three leagues or thereabouts up the said River we found this and Green's River to come into one and so continued for four or five leagues which causeth a great Island betwixt them We proceeded still up the River till they parted again keeping up Hilton's River on the Lar-board side and followed the said River five or six leagues further where we found another large branch of Green's River to come into Hilton's which maketh another great Island On the Star-board side going up we proceeded stil up the River some four leagues and returned taking a view of the Land on both sides and now judge our selves to be from our ship some eighteen leagues W. and by W. One league below this place came four Indians in a Canoa to us and sold us several baskets of Akorns which we satisfied for and so left them but one of them followed us on the shoar some two or three miles till he came on the top of a high bank facing on the River we rowing underneath it the said Indian shot an Arrow at us which missed one of our men very narrowly and stuck in the upper edge of the Boat which broke in pieces leaving the head behind Hereupon we presently made to the shoar and went all up the bank except four to guide the Boat we searched for the Indian but could not finde him At last we heard some sing further in the Woods which we thought had been as a Chalenge to us to come and fight them We went towards them with all speed but before we came in sight of them we heard two Guns go off from our Boat whereupon we retreated with all speed to secure our Boat and Men when we came to them we found all well demanded the reason of their firing the Guns they told us that an Indian came creeping on the Bank as they thought to shoot at them therefore shot at him a great distance with Swan-shot but thought they did him no hurt for they saw him run way Presently after our return to the Boat while we were thus talking came two Indians to us with their Bows and Arrows crying Bonny Bonny we took their Bows and Arrows from them and gave them Beads to their content Then we led them by the hand to the Boat and shewed them the Arrow-head sticking in her side and related to them the businesse which when they understood both of them manifested much sorrow and made us understand by signes that they knew nothing of it so we let them go and marked a