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A54171	A letter from William Penn, poprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province residing in London containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons, and produce ... of the natives, or, aborigines, their language, customs, and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch &c. ... to which is added an account of the city of Philadelphia ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1319; ESTC R24455	18,105	16

of Skins they may Marry else it is a shame to think of a Wife The Girls stay with their Mothers and help to hoe the Ground plant Corn and carry Burthens and they do well to use them to that Young they must do when they are Old for the Wives are the true Servants of their Husbands otherwise the Men are very affectionate to them XIV When the Young Women are fit for Marriage they wear something upon their Heads for an Advertisement but so as their Faces are hardly to be seen but when they please The Age they Marry at if Women is about thirteen and fourteen if Men seventeen and eighteen they are rarely elder XV. Their Houses are Mats or Barks of Trees set on Poles in the fashion of an English Barn but out of the power of the Winds for they are hardly higher than a Man they lie on Reeds or Grass In Travel they lodge in the Woods about a great Fire with the Mantle of Duffills they wear by day wrapt about them and a few Boughs stuck round them XVI Their Diet is Maze or Indian Corn divers ways prepared sometimes Roasted in the Ashes sometimes beaten and Boyled with Water which they call Homine they also make Cakes not unpleasant to eat They have likewise several sorts of Beans and Pease that are good Nourishment and the Woods and Rivers are their Larder XVII If an European comes to see them or calls for Lodging at their House or Wigwam they give him the best place and first cut If they come to visit us they salute us with an Ita● which is as much as to say Good be to you and set them down which is mostly on the Ground close to their Heels their Legs upright may be they speak not a word more but observe all Passages If you give them any thing to eat or drink well for they will not ask and be it little or much if it be with Kindness they are well pleased else they go away sullen but say nothing XVIII They are great Concealers of their own Resentments brought to it I believe by the Revenge that hath been practised among them in either of these they are not exceeded by the Italians A Tragical Instance fell out since I came into the Country A King's Daughter thinking her self slighted by her Husband in suffering another Woman to lie down between them rose up went out pluck't a Root out of the Ground and ate it upon which she immediately dyed and for which last Week he made an Offering to her Kindred for Attonement and liberty of Marriage as two others did to the Kindred of their Wives that dyed a natural Death For till Widdowers have done so they must not marry again Some of the young Women are said to take undue liberty before Marriage for a Portion but when marryed chaste when with Child they know their Husbands no more till delivered and during their Moneth they touch no Meat they eat but with a Stick least they should defile it nor do their Husbands frequent them till that time be expired XIX But in Liberality they excell nothing is too good for their friend give them a fine Gun Coat or other thing it may pass twenty hands before it sticks light of Heart strong Affections but soon spent the most merry Creatures that live Feast and Dance perpetually they never have much nor want much Wealth circulateth like the Blood all parts partake and though none shall want what another hath yet exact Observers of Property Some Kings have sold others presented me with several parcels of Land the Pay or Presents I made them were not hoarded by the particular Owners but the neighbouring Kings and their Clans being present when the Goods were brought out the Parties chiefly concerned consulted what and to whom they should give them To every King then by the hands of a Person for that work appointed is a proportion sent so sorted and folded and with that Gravity that is admirable Then that King sub-divideth it in like manner among his Dependents they hardly leaving themselves an Equal share with one of their Subjects and be it on such occasions at Festivals or at their common Meals the Kings distribute and to themselves last They care for little because they want but little and the Reason is a little contents them In this they are sufficiently revenged on us if they are ignorant of our Pleasures they are also free from our Pains They are not disquieted with Bills of Lading and Exchange nor perplexed with Chancery-Suits and Exchequer-Reckonings We sweat and toil to live their pleasure feeds them I mean their Hunting Fishing and Fowling and this Table is spread every where they eat twice a day Morning and Evening their Seats and Table are the Ground Since the Europeans came into these parts they are grown great lovers of strong Liquors Rum especially and for it exchange the richest of their Skins and Furs If they are heated with Liquors they are restless till they have enough to sleep that is their cry Some more and I will go to sleep but when Drunk one of the most wretchedst Spectacles in the World XX. In Sickness impatient to be cured and for it give any thing especially for their Children to whom they are extreamly natural they drink at those times a Teran or Decoction of some Roots in spring Water and if they eat any flesh it must be of the Female of any Creature If they dye they bury them with their Apparel be they Men or Women and the nearest of Kin sling in something precious with them as a token of their Love Their Mourning is blacking of their faces which they continue for a year They are choice of the Graves of their Dead for least they should be lost by time and fall to common use they pick off the Grass that grows upon them and heap up the fallen Earth with great care and exactness XXI These poor People are under a dark Night in things relating to Religion to be sure the Tradition of it yet they believe a God and Immortality without the help of Metaphysicks for they say There is a great King that made them who dwells in a glorious Country to the Southward of them and that the Souls of the good shall go thither where they shall live again Their Worship consists of two parts Sacrifice and Cantico Their Sacrifice is their first Fruits the first and fattest Buck they kill goeth to the fire where he is all burnt with a Mournful Ditty of him that performeth the Ceremony but with such marvellous Fervency and Labour of Body that he will even sweat to a foam The other part is their Cantico performed by round Dances sometimes Words sometimes Songs then Shouts two being in the middle that begin and by Singing and Drumming on a Board direct the Chorus Their Postures in the Dance are very Antick and differing but all keep measure This is done with equal Earnestness and Labour

A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of PENNSYLVANIA in America by Thomas Holme Surveyor General Sold by Iohn Thornton in the Minories and Andrew Sowle in Shoreditch London A LETTER FROM William Penn Poprietary and Governour of PENNSYLVANIA In America TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE Free Society of Traders of that Province residing in London CONTAINING A General Description of the said Province its Soil Air Water Seasons and Produce both Natural and Artificial and the good Encrease thereof Of the Natives or Aborigines their Language Customs and Manners Diet Houses or Wigwams Liberality easie way of Living Physick Burial Religion Sacrifices and Cantico Festivals Government and their order in Council upon Treaties for Land c. their Justice upon Evil Doers Of the first Planters the Dutch c. and the present Condition and Settlement of the said Province and Courts of Justice c. To which is added An Account of the CITY of PHILADELPHIA Newly laid out It s Scituation between two Navigable Rivers Delaware and Skulkill WITH A Portraiture or Plat-form thereof Wherein the Purchasers Lots are distinguished by certain Numbers inserted directing to a Catalogue of the said Purchasors Names And the Prosperous and Advantagious Settlements of the Society aforesaid within the said City and Country c. Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch and at several Stationers in London 1683. A Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governour of PENNSYLVANIA c. My Kind Friends THE Kindness of yours by the Ship Thomas and Anne doth much oblige me for by it I perceive the Interest you take in my Health and Reputation and the prosperous Beginnings of this Province which you are so kind as to think may much depend upon them In return of which I have sent you a long Letter and yet containing as brief an Account of My self and the Affairs of this Province as I have been able to make In the first place I take notice of the News you sent me whereby I find some Persons have had so little Wit and so much Malice as to report my Death and to mend the matter dead a Jesuit too One might have reasonably hop'd that this Distance like Death would have been a protection against Spite and Envy and indeed Absence being a kind of Death ought alike to secure the Name of the Absent as the Dead because they are equally unable as such to defend themselves But they that intend Mischief do not use to follow good Rules to effect it However to the great Sorrow and Shame of the Inventors I am still Alive and No Jesuit and I thank God very well And without Injustice to the Authors of this I may venture to infer That they that wilfully and falsly Report would have been glad it had been So. But I perceive many frivolous and Idle Stories have been Invented since my Departure from England which perhaps at this time are no more Alive than I am Dead But if I have been Vnkindly used by some I left behind me I found Love and Respect enough where I came an universal kind Welcome every sort in their way For here are some of several Nations as well as divers Judgments Nor were the Natives wanting in this for their Kings Queens and Great Men both visited and presented me to whom I made suitable Returns c. For the PROVINCE the general Condition of it take as followeth I. The Country it self in its Soyl Air Water Seasons and Produce both Natural and Artificial is not to be despised The Land containeth divers sorts of Earth as Sand Yellow and Black Poor and Rich also Gravel both Loomy and Dusty and in some places a fast fat Earth like to our best Vales in England especially by Inland Brooks and Rivers God in his Wisdom having ordered it so that the Advantages of the Country are divided the Back-Lands being generally three to one Richer than those that lie by Navigable Waters We have much of another Soyl and that is a black Hasel Mould upon a Stony or Rocky bottom II. The Air is sweet and clear the Heavens serene like the South-parts of France rarely Overcast and as the Woods come by numbers of People to be more clear'd that it self will Refine III. The Waters are generally good for the Rivers and Brooks have mostly Gravel and Stony Bottoms and in Number hardly credible We have also Mineral Waters that operate in the same manner with Barnet and North-hall not two Miles from Philadelphia IV. For the Seasons of the Year having by God's goodness now lived over the Coldest and Hottest that the Oldest Liver in the Province can remember I can say something to an English Understanding 1 st Of the Fall for then I came in I found it from the 24th of October to the beginning of December as we have it usually in England in September or rather like an English mild Spring From December to the beginning of the Moneth called March we had sharp Frosty Weather not foul thick black Weather as our North-East Winds bring with them in England but a Skie as clear as in Summer and the Air dry cold piercing and hungry yet I remember not that I wore more Clothes than in England The reason of this Cold is given from the great Lakes that are fed by the Fountains of Canada The Winter before was as mild scarce any Ice at all while this for a few dayes Froze up our great River Delaware From that Moneth to the Moneth called June we enjoy'd a sweet Spring no Gusts but gentle Showers and a fine Skie Yet this I observe that the Winds here as there are more Inconstant Spring and Fall upon that turn of Nature than in Summer or Winter From thence to this present Moneth which endeth the Summer commonly speaking we have had extraordinary Heats yet mitigated sometimes by Cool Breezese The Wind that ruleth the Summer-season is the South-West but Spring Fall and Winter 't is rare to want the wholesome North Wester seven dayes together And what-ever Mists Fogs or Vapours foul the Heavens by Easterly or Southerly Winds in two Hours time are blown away the one is alwayes followed by the other A Remedy that seems to have a peculiar Providence in it to the Inhabitants the multitude of Trees yet standing being-liable to retain Mists and Vapours and yet not one quarter so thick as I expected V. The Natural Produce of the Country of Vegetables is Trees Fruits Plants Flowers The Trees of most note are the black Walnut Cedar Cyprus Chestnut Poplar Gumwood Hickery Sassafrax Ash Beech and Oak of divers sorts as Red White and Black Spanish Chestnut and Swamp the most durable of all of All which there is plenty for the use of man The Fruits that I find in the Woods are the White and Black Mulbery Chestnut W●●lnut Plumbs Strawberries Cranberries Hurtleberries and Grapes of divers sorts The great Red Grape now ripe called by