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A12458	Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where. Or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation With the yearely proceedings of this country in fishing and planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate. Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences, by their proceedings in Virginia, and other plantations, by approved examples. With the countries armes, a description of the coast, harbours, habitations, land-markes, latitude and longitude: with the map, allowed by our royall King Charles. By Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 22787; ESTC S121885	31,468	55

value of fifteene hundred pound and arrived in England with all my men in health in six or seven moneths But Northward the French returned this yeare to France five and twenty thousand bevers and good furres whilest we were contending about Patents and Commissions with such fearefull incredulity that more dazeled our eyes than opened them In this voyage I tooke the description of the coast as well by map as writing and called it New-England but malicious mindes amongst Sailers and others drowned that name with the eccho of Nusconcus Canaday and Penaquid till at my humble sute our most gracious King Charles then Prince of Wales was pleased to confirme it by that title and did change the barbarous names of their principall Harbours and habitations for such English that posterity may say King Charles was their Godfather and in my opinion it should seeme an unmannerly presumption in any that doth alter them without his leave My second voyage was to beginne a Plantation and to doe what else I could but by extreme tempests that bore neare all my Masts by the boord being more than two hundred leagues at Sea was forced to returne to Plimoth with a Jury-Mast The third was intercepted by English and French Pyrats by my trecherous company that betrayed me to them who ran away with my Ship and all that I had such enemies the Sailers were to a Plantation and the greatest losse being mine did easily excuse themselves to the Merchants in England that still provided to follow the fishing much difference there was betwixt the Londoners and the Westerlings to ingrosse it who now would adventure thousands that when I went first would not adventure a groat yet there went foure or five good Ships but what by their dissention and the Turkes men of warre that tooke the best of them in the Straits they scarce saved themselves this yeare At my returne from France I did my best to have united them but that had beene more than a worke for Hercules so violent is the folly of greedy covetousnesse CHAP. 6. A description of the Coast Harbours Habitations Land-marks Latitude Longitude with the map THis Country wee now speake of lyeth betwixt 41. and 44½ the very meane for heat and cold betwixt the Equinoctiall and 〈◊〉 North Pole in which I have founded about five and twenty very good Harbors in many whereof is Ancorage for five hundred good ships of any burthen in some of them for a thousand and more than three hundred Iles overgrowne with good timber or divers sorts of other woods in most of them in their seasons plenty of wilde fruits Fish and Fowle and pure springs of most excellent water pleasantly distilling from their rockie foundations The principall habitations I was at North-ward was Pennobscot who are in warres with the Terentines their next Northerly neighbours Southerly up the Rivers and along the Coast wee found Mecadacut Segocket Pemmaquid Nusconcus Sagadahock Satquin Aumughcawgen and Kenabeca to those belong the Countries and people of Segot igo Pauhuntanuck Pocopassum Taughtanakagnet Wabigganus Nassaque Masherosqueck Wawrtgwick Moshoquen Waccogo Pasharanack c. To those are alied in confederacy the Countries of Aucocisco Accominticus Passataquak Augawoam and Naemkeck all these for any thing I could perceive differ little in language or any thing though most of them be Sagamos and Lords of themselves yet they hold the Bashabes of Pennobscot the chiefe and greatest amongst them The next is Mattahunt Totant Massachuset Paconekick then Cape Cod by which is Pawmet the Iles Nawset and Capawuck neere which are the shoules of Rocks and sands that stretch themselves into the maine Sea twenty leagues and very dangerous betwixt the degrees of 40. and 41. Now beyond Cape Cod the land extendeth it selfe Southward to Virginia Florida the West-Indies the Amazons and Brasele to the straits of Magelanus two and fifty degrees Southward beyond the Line all those great Countries differing as they are in distance North or South from the Equinoctiall in temper heat cold Woods Fruits Fishes Beasts Birds the increase and decrease of the night and day to six moneths day and six moneths night Some say many of those Nations are so brute they have no Religion wherein surely they may be deceived for myself I never saw nor heard of any Nation in the world which had not Religion Deare Bowes and Arrowes Those in New-England I take it beleeve much alike as those in Virginia of many divine Powers yet of one above all the rest as the Southerly Virginians call their chiefe God Kewassa and that we now inhabit Okae but all their Kings Werowances The M●ssichusots call their great God Kichtan and their Kings Sachemes and that we suppose their Devill they call Habamouk The Pennobscots their God Tantum their Kings Sagamos About those Countries are abundance of severall Nations and languages but much alike in their simple curiosities living and workemanship except the wilde estate of their chiefe Kings c. Of whose particular miserable magnificence yet most happy in this that they never trouble themselves with such variety of Apparell Drinkes Viands Sawses Perfumes Preservatives and nicities as we yet live as long and much more healthfull and hardy also the deities of their chiefest Gods Priests Conjurers Religion Temples Triumphs Physicke and Chirurgeric their births educations duty of their women exercise for their men how they make all their Instruments and Engines to cut downe Trees make their Cloaths Boats Lines Nets Fish-hooks Weres and Traps Mats Houses Pots Platters Morters Bowes Arrowes Targets Swords Clubs Jewels and Hatchets Their severall sorts of Woods Serpents Beasts Fish Fowle Roots Berries Fruits Stones and Clay Their best trade what is most fit to trade with them With the particulars of the charge of a fishing voyage and all the necessaries belonging to it their best countries to vent it for their best returnes also the particulars for every private man or family that goeth to plant and the best seasons to goe or returne thence with the particular description of the Salvages Habitations Harbours and Land markes their Latitude Longitude or severall distance with their old names and the new by the Map augmented Lastly the power of their Kings obedience of their subjects Lawes executions planting their Fields Huntings Fishings the manner of their warres and treacheries yet knowne and in generall their lives and conversation and how to bridle their brute barbarous and salvage dispositions of all these particulars you may reade at large in the generall History of Virginia New-England and the Summer Iles with many more such strange actions and accidents that to an ordinary capacity might rather seeme miracles than wonders possibly to bee effected which though they are but wound up as bottoms of fine silke which with a good needle might be flourished into a far larger worke yet the Images of great things are best discerned contracted into smaller glasses CHAP. 7. New Englands yearely trials the

are gone within this eighteene moneths for Cape Anne and the Bay of the Massachusets those which are their chiefe Vndertakers are Gentlemen of good estate some of 500 some a thousand pound land a yeere all which they say they will sell for the advancing this harmlesse and pious worke men of good credit and well-beloved in their Country not such as flye for debt or any scandall at home and are good Catholike Protestants according to the reformed Church of England if not it is well they are gone the rest of them men of good meanes or Arts Occupations and Qualities much more fit for such a businesse and better furnished of all necessaries if they arrive well than was ever any Plantation went out of England I will not say but some of them may be more precise than needs nor that they all be so good as they should be for Christ had but twelue Apostles and one was a traitor and if there be no dissemblers among them it is more than a wonder therefore doe not condemne all for some but however they have as good authority from his Majesty as they could desire if they doe ill the losse is but their owne if well a great glory and exceeding good to this Kingdome to make good at last what all our former conclusions have disgraced Now they take not that course the Virginia company did for the Planters there their purses and lives were subject to some few here in London who were never there that consumed all in Arguments Projects and their owne conceits every yeere trying new conclusions altering every thing yearely as they altered opinions till they had consumed more than two hundred thousand pounds and neere eight thousand mens lives It is true in the yeere of our Lord 1622. they were about seven or eight thousand English indifferently well furnished with most necessaries and many of them grew to that height of bravery living in that plenty and excesse that went thither not worth any thing made the Company here thinke all the world was Oatmeale there and all this proceeded by surviving those that died nor were they ignorant to use as curious tricks there as here and out of the juice of Tabacco which at first they sold at such good rates they regarded nothing but Tabacco a commodity then so vendable it provided them all things and the loving Salvages their kinde friends they trained so well up to shoot in a Peece to hunt and kill them fowle they became more expert than our owne Country-men whose labours were more profitable to their Masters in planting Tabacco and other businesse This superfluity caused my poore beginnings scorned or to be spoken of but with much derision that never sent Ship from thence fraught but onely some small quantities of Wainscot Clap-board Pitch Tar Rosin Sope-ashes Glasse Cedar Cypresse Blacke Walnut Knees for Ships Ash for Pikes Iron Ore none better some Silver Ore but so poore it was not regarded better there may be for I was no Mineralist some Sturgion but it was too tart of the Vinegar which was of my owne store for little came from them which was good and Wine of the Countries wilde Grapes but it was too sowre yet better than they sent us any in two or three yeeres but one Hogshead of Claret Onely speading my time to revenge my imprisonment upon the harmlesse innocent Salvages who by my cruelty I forced to feed me with their contribution and to send any offended my idle humour to Iames towne to punish at mine owne discretion or keepe their Kings and subjects in chaines and make them worke Things cleane contrary to my Commission whilest I and my company tooke our needlesse pleasures in discovering the Countries about us building of Forts and such unnecessary fooleries where an Egge-shell as they writ had beene sufficient against such enemies neglecting to answer the Merchants expectations with profit feeding the Company onely with Letters and tastes of such commodities as we writ the Country would afford in time by industry as Silke Wines Oyles of Olives Rape and Linsed Rasons Prunes Flax Hempe and Iron as for Tabacco wee never then dreamt of it Now because I sent not their ships full fraught home with those commodities they kindly writ to me if we failed the next returne they would leave us there as banished men as if houses and all those commodities did grow naturally only for us to take at our pleasure with such tedious Letters directions and instructions and most contrary to that was fitting we did admire how it was possible such wise men could so torment themselves and us with such strange absurdities and impossibilities making Religion their colour when all their aime was nothing but present profit as most plainly appeared by sending us so many Refiners Gold-smiths Iewellers Lapidarics Stone-cutters Tabacco-pipe-makers Imbroderers Perfumers Silkemen with all their appurtenances but materialls and all those had great summes out of the common stocke and so many spies and super-intendents over us as if they supposed we would turne Rebels all striving to suppresse and advance they knew not what at last got a Commission in their owne names promising the King custome within seven yeares where we were free for one and twenty appointing the Lord De-la-ware for Governour with as many great and stately officers and offices under him as doth belong to a great Kingdome with good summes for their extraordinary expences also privileges for Cities Charters for Corporations Universities Free-schooles and Glebe-land putting all those in practice before there were either people students or schollers to build or use them or provision and victuall to feed them were then there and to amend this most of the Tradesmen in London that would adventure but twelue pounds ten shillings had the furnishing the Company of all such things as belonged to his trade such jugling there was betwixt them and such intruding Committies their associats that all the trash they could get in London was sent us to Uirginia they being well payed for that was good Much they blamed us for not converting the Salvages when those they sent us were little better if nor worse nor did they all convert any of those we sent them to England for that purpose So doating of Mines of gold and the South Sea that all the world could not have devised better courses to bring us to ruine than they did themselves with many more such like strange concoits by this you may avoid the like inconveniences and take heed by those examples you have not too many irons in the fire at once neither such change of Governours nor such a multitude of Officers neither more Masters Gentlemen Gentlewomen and children than you have men to worke which idle charge you will finde very troublesome and the effects dangerous and one hundred good labourers better than a thousand such Gallants as were sent me that could doe nothing but complaine curse and despaire when

plantations and my selfe how oft up how oft downe sometimes neere despaire and ere long flourishing how many scandals and Spanolized English have sought to disgrace them bring them to ruine or at least hinder them all they could how many have shaven and couzened both them and me and their most honourable supporters and well-willers cannot but conceive Gods infinite mercy both to them and me Having beene a slave to the Turks prisoner amongst the most barbarous Salvages after my deliverance commonly discovering and ranging those large rivers and unknowne Nations with such a handfull of ignorant companions that the wiser sort often gave mee for lost alwayes in mutinies wants and miseries blowne up with gunpowder A long time prisoner among the French Pyrats from whom escaping in a little boat by my selfe and adrift all such a stormy winter night when their ships were split more than an hundred thousand pound lost wee had taken at sea and most of them drownd upon the I le of Ree not farre from whence I was driven on shore in my little boat c. And many a score of the worst of winter moneths lived in the fields yet to have lived neere 37. yeares in the midst of wars pestilence and famine by which many an hundred thousand have died about mee and scarce five living of them went first with me to Virginia and see the fruits of my labours thus well begin to prosper Though I have but my labour for my paines have I not much reason both privately and publikely to acknowledge it and give God thankes whose omnipotent power onely delivered me to doe the utmost of my best to make his name knowne in those remote parts of the world and his loving mercy to such a miserable sinner Had my designes beene to have perswaded men to a mine of gold as I know many have done that knew no such matter though few doe conceive either the charge or paines in refining it nor the power nor care to defend it or some new invention to passe to the South sea or some strange plot to invade some strange Monastery or some chargeable Fleet to take some rich Charaques or letters of mart to rob some poore Merchant or honest fisher men what multitudes of both people and money would contend to be first imployed But in those noble indevours now how few unlesse it bee to begge them as Monopolies and those seldome seeke the common good but the commons goods as the 217. the 218. and the 219. pages in the generall history will shew But only those noble Gentlemen and their associates for whose better incouragements I have recollected those experienced memorandums as an Apologie against all calumniating detracters as well for my selfe as them Now since them called Brownists went some few before them also having my bookes and maps presumed they knew as much as they desired many other directers they had as wise as themselves but that was best that liked their owne conceits for indeed they would not be knowne to have any knowledge of any but themselves pretending onely Religion their governour and frugality their counsell when indeed it was onely their pride and singularity and contempt of authority because they could not be equals they would have no superiours in this fooles Paradise they so long used that good husbandry they have payed soundly in trying their owne follies who undertaking in small handfuls to make many plantations and to bee severall Lords and Kings of themselves most vanished to nothing to the great disparagement of the generall businesse therefore let them take heed that doe follow their example CHAP. 10. The mistaking of Patents strange effects incouragements for servants WHo would not thinke that all those certainties should not have made both me and this Country have prospered well by this but it fell out otherwayes for by the instigation of some whose policy had long watched their oportunity by the assurance of those profitable returnes procured new Letters Patents from King Iames drawing in many Noblemen and others to the number of twenty for Patentees dividing my map and that tract of land from the North Sea to the South Sea East and West which is supposed by most Cosmographers at least more than two thousand miles and from 41. degrees to 48. of Northerly latitude about 560. miles the bounds Virginia to the South the South Sea to the West Canada to the North and the maine Ocean to the East all this they divided in twenty parts for which they cast lots but no lot for me but Smiths Iles which are a many of barren rocks the most overgrowne with such shrubs and sharpe whins you can hardly passe them without either grasse or wood but three or foure short shrubby old Cedars Those Patentees procured a Proclamation that no ship should goe thither to fish but pay them for the publike as it was pretended five pound upon every thirty tuns of shipping neither trade with the natives cut downe wood throw their balast over boord nor plant without commission leave and content to the Lord of that division or Mannor some of which for some of them I beleeve will be tenantlesse this thousand yeare Thus whereas this Country as the contrivers of those projects should have planted it selfe of it selfe especially all the chiefe parts along the coast the first yeare as they have oft told me and chiefly by the fishing ships and some small helpe of their owne thinking men would be glad upon any termes to be admitted under their protections but it proved so contrary none would goe at all So for feare to make a contempt against the Proclamation it hath ever since beene little frequented to any purpose nor would they doe any thing but left it to it selfe Thus it lay againe in a manner vast till those noble Gentlemen thus voluntarily undertooke it whem I intreat to take this as a memorandum of my love to make your plantations so neere and great as you can for many hands make light worke whereas yet your small parties can doe nothing availeable nor stand too much upon the letting setting or selling those wild Countries nor impose too much upon the commonalty either by your maggazines which commonly eat out all poore mens labours nor any other too hard imposition for present gaine but let every man so it bee by order allotted him plant freely without limitation so much as hee can bee it by the halfes or otherwayes And at the end of five or six yeares or when you make a division for every acre he hath planted let him have twenty thirty forty or an hundred or as you finde hee hath extraordinarily deserved by it selfe to him and his heires for ever all his charges being defrayed to his lord or master and publike good In so doing a servant that will labour within foure or five yeares may live as well there as his master did here for where there is so much