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A91513 An abstract of a letter from a person of eminency and worth in Caledonia to a friend at Boston in New England. Paterson, William, 1658-1719.; Ross, Hugh. 1699 (1699) Wing P709; ESTC W34036 3,084 12

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An Abstract OF A LETTER From a Person of Eminency and worth in Caledonia to a Friend at Boston in New-England SIR I Have Received your kind Letter of the 26 December last and Communicated it to the Gentlemen of the Council here to whom your kind Sentiments and Readiness were very acceptable Certainly the Work here begun is the most Ripened Digested and the best Founded as to Priviledges Place Time and other like Advantages that ever was yet begun in any part of the Trading World We Arrived upon this Coast the first and took possession the third of November Our Scituation is about Two Leagues to the Southward of Golden-Island by the Spaniards called Guarda in one of the best most defenceable Harbours perhaps in the World The Country is Healthful to a wonder insomuch that our own Sick which were many when we Arrived are now generally cured The Country is exceeding Fertile and the Weather Temperate The Country where we are Settled is dry and rising ground Hills but not High and on the sides and quite to the tops three four or five foot good fat mould not a Rock or Stone to be seen We have but Eight or Nine Leagues to a River where Boats may go into the South Sea The Natives for Fifty Leagues on either side are in intire friendship and Correspondence with us and if we will be at the pains we can gain those at the greatest distance For our Neighbour Indians are willing to be the joyful Messengers of our Settlement and good disposition to their Country-men As to the Innate Riches of the Countrey upon the first information I always believed to be very great but now find it goes beyond all that ever I thought or conceited in that matter The Spaniards as we can understand are very much surprized and alarm'd and the more that it comes as a Thunder-clap upon them having had no notice of us until three days after our Arrival We have Written to the Praesident of Panama giving him Account of our good and peaceable intentions and to procure a good Understanding and Correspondence And if that is not condescended to we are ready for what else he pleases If Merchants should once Erect Factories here this place will soon become the best and surest Mart in all America both for In-land and Over-land Trade We want here Sloops and Coasting Vessels for want of which and by reason we have been all hands at work in fortifying and fitting our selves which is now pretty well over we have had but little Trade as yet most of our Goods Unsold We are here a Thousand one hundred Men and expect Supplies every day We have been exceeding unhappy in loosing two Ministers who came with us from Scotland and if New England could supply us in that it would be a great and lasting Obligation Fort St. Andrew February 18th 1698 9. CALEDONIA THE Declaration OF THE COUNCIL Constituted by the Indian and African Company of Scotland for the Government and direction of their Colonies and Settlements in the Indies THE said Company pursuant to the Powers and Immumunities Granted unto them by His Majesty of Great Britain our Soveraign Lord with Advice and Consent of His Parliament of Scotland having Granted and Conceded unto us and our Successors in the Government for all times hereafter full Power to equip set out freight and navigate our own or hired Ships in War-like or other manner from any ports or places in Amity or not in Hostility with His Majesty to any Lands Islands Countries or places in Asia Africa or America and there to Plant Colonies build Cities Towns or Forts in or upon the places not Inhabited or in or upon any other place by consent of the Natives or Inhabitants thereof and not possest by any European Sovereign Potentate Prince or State and to provide and furnish the aforesaid Places Cities Towns or Forts with Magazines Ordnance Arms Weapons Ammunition and Stores of War and by force of Arms to defend the same Trade Navigation Colonies Cities Towns Forts Plantations and other Effects whatsoever and likewise to make Reprizals and to seek and take reparation of Damage done by Sea or by Land and to make and conclude Treaties of Peace and Commerce with the Sovereign Princes Estates Rulers Governours or Proprietors of the aforesaid Lands Islands Countries or places in Asia Africa or America And reserving to themselves Five Per Cent. or one Twentieth part of the Lands Mines Minerals Pearls Stones of Value precious Woods and Fishings have further Conceded and Granted unto us the free and absolute right and property in and to all such Lands Islands Colonies Cities Towns Forts and Plantations as we shall come to establish or possess in manner aforesaid as also to all manner of Treasures Wealth Riches Profits Mines Minerals and Fishings with the whole product and benefit thereof as well Under as above the Ground as well in Rivers and Seas as in the Lands thereunto belonging or for or by reason of the same in any sort together with the right of Government and Admiralty thereof as likewise that all manner of Persons who shall settle to Inhabite or be born in any such Plantations Colonies Cities Towns Factories or places shall be and be reputed as Natives of the Kingdom of Scotland and generally the said Company have Communicated unto us a Right to all the Powers Properties and Priviledges Granted unto them by Act of Parliament or otherwise howsoever with power to Grant and delegate the same and to permit and allow such sort of Trade Commerce and Navigation unto the Plantations Colonies Cities Towns and places of our possession as we shall judge fit and convenient And the Chief Captains and Supream Leaders of the People of Darien in compliance with former Agreements having now in most kind and obliging manner received us into their Friendship and Country with Promise and Contract to assist and join in defence thereof against such as shall be their or our Enemies in any time to come Which besides its being one of the most Healthful Rich and Fruitful Countries upon Earth hath the advantage of being a Narrow ISTHMUS Seated in the Heighth of the World between the two vast Oceans which renders it more convenient than any other for being the common Store-house of the Insearchable and Immense Treasures of the Spacious South Seas the door of Commerce to China and Japan and the Emporium and Staple for the Trade of both Indies And now by Virtue of the before-mentioned Powers to us given We do here Settle and in the Name of GOD Establish Our Selves and in Honour and for the Memory of that most Ancient and Renowned Name of our Mother Kingdom We do and will from hence-forward call this Country by the Name of Caledonia and our selves Successors and Associates by the name of Caledonians And suitable to the Weight and Greatness of the Trust reposed and the valuable Opportunity now in our hands being firmly resolved to communicate and dispose thereof in the most just and equal manner for Increasing the Dominions and Subjects of the King Our Soveraign Lord the Honour and Wealth of our Country as well as the benefit and advantage of those who now are or may hereafter be concerned with us We do hereby Publish and Declare That all manner of Persons of what Nation or People soever shall from hence-forward be equally free and alike capable of the said Properties Priviledges Protections Immunities and Rights of Government Granted unto us and the Merchants Merchants Ships of all Nations may freely come to and Trade with us without being liable in their Persons Gords or Effects to any manner of Capture Confiscation Seizure Forfeiture Attachment Arrest Restraint or Prohibition for or by reason of any Embargo breach of the Peace Letters of Mark or Reprizals Declaration of War with any Forreign Prince Potentate or State or upon any other account or pretence whatsoever And we do hereby not only Grant and Concede and Declare a general and equal freedom of Government and Trade to those of all Nations who shall hereafter be of or concerned with us but also a full and free Liberty of Conscience in matter of Religion so as the same be not understood to allow connive at or indulge the Blaspheming of Gods Holy Name or any of His Divine Attributes or of the Unhallowing or Prophaning the Sabbath Day And finally as the best and surest means to render any Government successful durable and happy it shall by the help of Almighty God be ever our constant and chiefest care that all our further Constitutions Laws and Ordinances be consonant and agreeable to the Holy Scripture Right Reason and the Examples of the wisest and justest Nations that from the Truth and Righteousness thereof we may reasonably hope for and expect the Blessings of Prosperity and Increase By Order of the Council Hugh Ross Secretary NEW EDINBURGH December 28. 1698. Boston Printed May 15th 1699.