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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
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1681
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Wing A147; ESTC R6922
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their whole families hither again which methinks should take many of these Scruples out of the way if nothing else were said or done in praise of this Country But I suppose there are many in England that desire to hear ill of this Place because they would keep their Friends there with them and they think we never write enough of the bad Properties of the Country and Vermin in it Now this I may say in short That here are Bears Wolves Foxes Rattle-snakes and several other Creatures I do believe because I see the Indians have such Skins to sell But I have Travelled several hundreds of Miles to and fro and I never to my knowledge saw one of those Creatures except two Rattle-snakes and I kill'd them both I suppose the Fear of those Creatures in England is far worse to some there than the Hurt of them is here And as for the Musketto-Fly we are not troubled with them in this Place our Land for the most part Lying high and healthy and they for the most part are in Law Boggy ground Thomas Budd and his Family are arrived the ship Lieth before this Town that brought them I wish you have not cause to repent that you came not along with them They had a very good Passage and so had the London Ship they are both in the River at this time I understand by Thomas Budd that he did satisfie you as near as he could of the Truth of things here and you had as much reason to believe him as that other person and more too for Thomas had far more Experience of this Place than he I say could have in the short time he was among us So of these things I shall forbear to write any farther at present and with my true love to you all my Friends with my hearts Desire for your Wellfare every way c. I rest Your True Loving Brother Iohn Crips To the Truth of the Contents of these Things we subscribe our Names Daniel Wills Thomas Olive Thomas Harding Thomas Budd William Peachey An Abstract of a Letter from Daniel Wills to William Biddle Then Living in Bishops-gate-Street in London who with his Wife and Family is this present 5th Moneth 1681. with several Servants gone for New-Jersey Dear Friend I Received thine by Henry Salter but it came too late to my hand so that I could not write any thing in answer untill this time I understand thou would'st know something from me concerning New-Jersey which indeed I had given thee a large account of without thy desiring only Joseph Hempsley satisfied me that he had done it Let every Man write according to his Judgment and this is Mine concerning this Country I do really believe it to be as good a Country as any Man need to dwell in and it is much better than I expected every way For Land I will assure thee here is as good by the Judgment of Men as any is in England And for my part I like the Country so well and it is so Pleasant to me that if I had a good Estate in Land in England I should not come to live upon it For through Industry here will be all Things produced that are necessary for a Family as is in England and far more easier I am satisfyed When I am walking alone and the Lord is with me and the Sense of His good Dealings is brought before me I cannot but admire Him for His Mercies and often in secret bless His Name that ever He turn'd my Face hitherward and gave me Confidence in Himself and Boldness by Faith to oppose all Gain-sayers though never â—o strong Alâ—hough then I could not say I had a Call or Command to leave the Land of my Nativity Yet now of a Truth I can say the Lord removed me there-from and in what I did I had Peace in Him And in all my Exercises by Sea and Land I never felt the least Matter in me as to desire I had not come forward but rather rejoyced in the Lord in the midst of all Though my Removal was not ordinary because of the Largeness of my Family yet blessed be the Name of the Lord all is well to our Content So if thou heedest every ones Sayings thou wilt have work enough I heeded none but the Lord. My Resolution was and my Sayings to several Oâ—posers That I would come if God hindered me not no Man should I have writ about the 26 th of the 9 th Month to John Mulliner and Edward Cooper largely concerning the Country thou maist write to them to have a Copy of it if it comes to hand before This which I something question And now my Dear Friends and Antient Acquaintance William and Sarah Biddle My Love you may feel beyond Expression And if you have Clearness to come to New-Jersey let nothing hinder but if you have a Stop upon your Spirits let not any thing farther you until the Lord clears your Way In this my Writing I do assure you I deny my self for if I might I should write to forward you but I dare not Though you may understand by my Letters how it is with Me and Mine and many Others I know if a Man cannot Live here I do believe he can hardly live in any Place in the World This being the Place set before Me of the Lord and if He gives Length of Dayes I will see what He will afford me in it The last Ship that came to New-York brought several Passengers some of which came to see this Country and liked it well So Dear Friends you may stand against all Opposers concerning the Land for it is Good Subscribed Daniel Wills Burlington the 16 th of the 11 th Moneth 1679. An Extract of a Letter written by William and Ruth Embly to Samuel Racles of Nottingham from Burlington in New-Jersey Loving Friend AFter dear Love to thy Self and Wife and rest of Friends This may acquaint you we all crossed the Seas very shortly and pleasantly My Wife was pretty well Aboard in respect of her Condition and was Delivered of a Girl in Delaware-River did very well and is very well content and satisfyed with the Country c. We are now going to settle a Town at the Falls a Place reported and credited to be without Compare to any other yet known None equal for pleasant Healthful Air Lovely Scituation second to none for Fertility The Next I hope shall inform you more Our Love to Friends c. Subscribed William Ruth Embly From the Falls of Delaware in New-Jersey the 12th of the 6th Month 1680. Mahlon Stacy's Letter to George Hutcheson Dearly Beloved Friend Brother IN the Blessed Truth of Jesus do I dearly Salute Thee thy dear Wife and all tender Friends with whom I have been Conversant and amongst whom my Spirit hath been Refreshed my dear Love in the Lord salutes them all desiring as one travelling for the Good and Prosperity of all that love the Lord Jesus that