THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES r Cabin's QUARTO SERIES. No. IV. TO WELL MINDED PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE Straitned in their Eftates or otherwife : OR, Such as are willing, out of Noble and Publike Principles, to tranfport Themfelves or fome Servants, or Agents for them into the Weft Indies, for the Propagating of the Gofpel and Increafe of TRADE. NEW YORK: REPRINTED FOR JOSEPH SABIN. 1865. No. EDITION 250 COPIES, OF WHICH 50 ARE ON LARGE PAPER. MUNSELL, PRINTER. r ic E. The following Trad: is reprinted from the rare Original in the pofleffion of the Rev. F. L. Hawks, LL. D. It is of extreme rarity and is not mentioned by any Bibliographer. The firft Edition has no feparate title page. The date is fuppofed to be 1643. JOSEPH SABIN. New York, 1865. 1546679 Certain Inducements To well minded PEOPLE, Who are here ftraitned in their Eftates or otherwife : or fuch as are willing out of Noble and publike Principles, to tranf- port Themfelves, or fome Servants, or Agents for them into the Weft-Indies, for the propagating of the Gofpel and increafe of TRADE. iHere feemes to bee a great Gate i opened to the Gofpels entrance ment upon the Indians, a great part of them being already for the moft part reduced to civill goverment, & cohabitation, to live in callings, to fpeak Spanijh (which is a Lan- guage very eafie to bee learned) and fome to writing and reading ; yea, the wildeft Indians upon the Southern Main, have bin found to be very open to conviction in their Religion, and others, (yea, even hundreds) have earneftly defired to live fomwhere under the Englifh Goverment, paying Tribute, and would defiroufly Learn their Religion : as being refolved the Spaniards Religion cannot ( 8 ) cannot bee good, the ProfefTors thereof are of fo evil converfation, they generally love the Englifh and fome are proud to have the Englifh names put upon them ; they have fome remaining knowledge of the Creation of man and of a great Flood; they abhor Lyers and Adulterers. Induce Eafie accommodation for Houfes, for in fome mentm parts there are fome ready built ; and where they be none, a great number may bee in few dayes fitted for their prefent abode ; for there is no fuch rigor of weather to force fuch exact providing of Houfes ; but the matter of Fortification, Food, and Commodity may precede better & more beautifull buildings : there are Leaves of a fathome broad, and as much in length, which will fuffice to clofe the wals and Roofes, and thefe will laft many yeers : but when it is feafonable to build fairer houfes, there is good Timber for them, as Pine, Cedar, Oake, (fome bearing Acornes) Lo- cufts, Am, Mangroves, Mancheneele ; and the worke of building may in all reafon bee farre cheaper there, where the workman is not bur- dened with Rents and provifion as in Eng- land. Induce There may bee a fpeedy and abundant fupply ment. Q f f OO( j . fp ee d o f fupply appeareth by the times and kinds of fupply. Englijh grain will grow well, and yield a pure Flower ; Indian Corn yeelds a crop in three months ; Peafe in two, Potatoes in five, Pumpions in three, CafTavia in fix. Plan- tanes in ten, and Angoala Peas in five months (thefe ( 9 ) (thefe grow on a tree, and for three yeers or more, have little intermiffion of bearing) Plan- tanes continue to beare well foure yeers without any intermiffion ; there are other roots good, as Illiamus and Dimway, which will keep in the houfe moft part of the yeare in ftores : thefe things for fruits. The Land hath likewife Hogs, Deere, Rabbets, Guianaes, Armadillaes, Weftco- toones, Turtle, Tilboa, and where the Spaniard hath been, or is, there are Goats, Sheepe, alfo Horfes, AfTenecoes for Sevice, and Cowes for food, and that very good and plentifull. In the Rivers of water, and on the Sea coafts there are ftore of various and choice Fifties very good for food, and delicate, as Pike, Breame, hogfim, rockfifh, fnappers, groopers, porgies, megrim, parrotfim, grunts, angelfim, blewcoats, velvitcoats, morrage, cunnyfim, lobfters, ftingrayes, horfeies, gevallees pilchers, ambrenfh, and oyflers ; alfo turtle of divers forts, Manatee and divers other forts. In the aire is great diverfity of Foules, Ducks of feverall forts, Wildgeefe, pigeon, parret, mackow, turtle, doves, goaling, Curlews, pafTo, flemingo, herne, peacock, Caflboes, cohooes, tur- keys, cocks and hens, blackbirds, and divers other forts both fmall and great very plentifull. The abundance of fupply appeareth, not onely in what hath beene faid, but farther, in proportion of encreafe ; one grain of Indian Corne yeelds a ftalke, and each ftalke yeelds two faire eares (be- tides fmaller) each eare containing about fix hun- B dred dred graines, fome eight hundred ; fo that you fee the fruitfull Land yeelds about a thoufand fold : fourteen hundred eares, yea fometimes a thoufand fills an hogmead with graine, and that is eight bumels : one acre of ground yields ordi- narily ten thoufand eares ; fo that fixty foure bufhells, are commonly produced by one acre at one crop, and on the fame ground you may have three crops of Corne in the fame yeere, if not foure, and this Corne makes far better bread then what hath beene ufually of that in New- England and Virginia ; and indeed it may bee made as good as our Bread here in England, and will make very good Beere, and fo will honey like- wife, of which there is great ftore : Peafe planted in an acre, which three quarts will do ; arife in one Crop to three hogfheads, fometimes to five, though they do not grow at all times of the yeer alike ; yet there may be three crops of peafe in one yeere ; there are divers forts of peafe, and of divers colours, as red, white, black, and gray, fome of them as good, or rather better then the beft in England. Potatoes yield an exceeding en- creafe, and are very delicious for mens eating, being farre more pleating to the pallate, and wholfome to the ftomack there, where they eate them frefh out of the ground, then they are here, when they are brought over ; and the reafon is, becaufe they are commonly two or three moneths old before they bee eaten, and if there they are kept but fix dayes after they are out of the ground, ( II ) ground, they are efteem'd fit only for the Hoggs : Potatoes are alfo extraordinary ufefull for divers forts of Cattell in the roots, or flips, upon which, and the generall food of the Countrey ufually given to Hogs, doth yeeld the taft of the Porke much more fweet and pleafing then ours in Eng- land, and indeed is as palatfome and nourifhing as Mutton here. Plantanes in foure acres will in its kind, ferve a Family of twenty perfons, both for meate and drinke ; which drinke is pleafant, quick, nourifhing, ftrong, and like fome Wines ; Plantanes are a very excellent fruit, whereof ufe may be made in fixteen or eighteen feverall dimes of different tafte, yet every one pleafant to the pallate, wholfome to the ftomack, hearty and very nourifhing to the body ; they do make good bread, puddings, tarts, and yeeld a fine flower for pancakes. Caffavia is the root of a Tree, which is a very good and hearty food, rofted in the fire, ftewed, baked, or boyled ; it yeelds likewife a very pure flower, which makes bread to vicTiuall Ships, that will keepe for Shippes ftore fome yeares, and continue very good. Guy- anaes, Armadillaes, and Weftcotoones are of fe- verall fhapes, but in their taft fomewhat, but much better than a Rabbet. There are alfo fe- verall other forts of creatures good for food (not fpecified) of fuch like kinds. The Turtle of the Land is a Beaft, very good, wholfome, and pleafant flefh for meat ; of which there is reafonable ftore. Tilboa is a Creature, the flefh whereof eateth like Biefe, Biefe, and is almoft as big as an Oxe ; thefe about the Seacoaft are fomwhat rare, but up in the Countrey, by Indians and fome Englijh relations, much more plentiful!. As for Fifh, it would be too tedious to relate the nature and quality of every particular fort ; we mail only make a true relation of fome of the cheifeft. The Hogfiih is much better than our Salmon ; and is in taft ex- ceedingly pleafant, it is a broad red fim and about the bignefle of an ordinary Salmon ; from which fifh being rofted, a pint of pure fat hath dropped, which fat is good for divers ufes to drerle vidlualls. Rockfifh is of feverall fizes, ordinarily as big as a codfifh and fome are much bigger and is better then a Codiim. Snappers are about the bignes of a Salmon, and are as good as the Hogfifh. Gropers are about the fize of a Codfifb, and as good and rather better. Porgies are in good- nefle neer to that of the hogfifh, but not above half fo big. Megrim is as big as the Porgie, and not much inferiour to it in goodnefTe. Of the Sea Turtle rim, very much may be fpoken in point of its goodnes ; it is a creature living in the Sea, and feeding upon the gralTe growing in the bottome of the Sea, whereof there is plenty, the flefh of this creature is very good, and eats much like Veale ; this meat out of an hidden quality, is very medinicall for the cure of the difeafes of the Dropfie and Fluxes, into which fome falls, though feldome ; and gently purgeth their bodies throughly, and worketh a perfect cure ; the ( 13 ) the fleih thereof may very well be eaten without bread, and is marvellous nourishing and very de- firable, it yeelds good ftore of oyle, which is fo inoffenfive, that halfe a pint may bee drunke at a draught ; it is in colour yellow, and in goodnes to be ufed as butter, being but little, or not at all inferior to it : it .is alfo very foveraigne being compofed with other things into a falve, for any green wounds, or old fores, as by experience hath appeared : fome of thefe Fifhes in fpawning time, will lay two or three hundred eggs, which egges are about the bignefle of an Hens egge, and are good to be eaten ; this Fifh is very plentifull, fo that fome have taken forty at a fifhing, and fome- times more, and of fuch large lizes, that fome one of them will ferve fifty men at a meale ; the flefh hereof is ordinarily powdred up in hogfheads for Ships provifion ; many other are the rare qualities of this Fifh (it may be called a Fiih, for it is in- deed rather flefh) and of thefe Turtles there are feverall forts, as green Turtle, hawkesbill Turtle (of which is the fhell for Combes) Logger heads, trunck Turtle, Lady Turtle, fome better, fome worfe, but all good for food, and the beft is moft plentifull. Manatee is likewife a creature living in the Sea, and might well be tearmed a Sea Cow, for the taft thereof is like Biefe, and is very good, and taketh salt likewife ; this Creature hath a ftone which is a very foveraign remedy for the Stone in the Bladder, and very helpfull to women in travel, as hath often been proved ; as alfo againft ( H ) againft the Cramp, for which particulars, there are likewife many other things, as Sharkes ftones, Crabs ftones, and many other medicines from fe- verall fenfibles and vegitables, for the difeafes there, and alfo for the difeafes raigning in other parts, of which good ufe may be made. 4 induce Sufficient provifion for clothing in two or three ment yeares ; for Cotton-feed being planted, yeelds in four or five moneths, and of this divers kindes of linnen cloathing, both inward and outward, may be made, as alfo ftockins and gloves. Befides, there is a filke-grafle, which growes naturally, and may be cut once a year ; this by the Indians is eafily fitted to make cordage, and to be fpun into a fine thread, very good to make fturFes, which quefKon- lefle would be very fine and rich, it being in its nature and colour much like raw filke. The bodies of Plantane trees, and leaves of Pine-apple- trees, doe alfo yeeld a fine thread. Sheep profper well there, and filke-wormes are likely to doe fo ; yet were it better to have occafion to fetch filke from the neighbouring Eajl- India, as the Spaniards ufe to doe. Hides are eafily in three or foure moneths tanned, to make Leather for ihoes and boots ; there is matter likewife to make hats. 5 Induce Of commodities there are in being, Indico, ment Cocheneale, Annottoe, Balfame, Sugar-canes, Ginger, Silke-grafTe, Silke-cotton, and other Cot- ton, Sarfaperilla, and other drugges; Bees-waxe, Dete (which is an excellent perfume, growing naturally, and there is fome probability it would bee ( '5 ) bee much better being tranfplanted ;) divers forts of Dying woods, alfo Tarre, Pitch, Tallow, Hides, befides the Mines of Silver and Gold, there is alfo Copper and Iron, it is fuppofed likewife that many of the Baft- India Commodities will grow there, and fo would Vines for Wines, and Olives for Oyle in that foile and clime, as the like ex- perence fhewes, and the prohibition of the King of Spaine witnefleth : Alfo there are Pearls, and fome Spices; yea there is a barke of a Tree, which is white, that feemeth a compound of all Spices. The comfort of Fruit, which are fo refined by 6 Induce the Sunne and wholfome, that they infec~l not ment the body though eaten in abundance : There is moft delightfull gardening, and more eafie than in cold places. The forts of fruits, befides Plant- aines, are Pine-apples (which is a fruit for delicacy, delicious, fweet and pleafing tafte, to be admired, and the fcent thereof very odoriferous and pleaf- ing to that fenfe ; it is accounted one of the primeft fruits in the whole world) Oranges, Lemmons, Lymes, Pome-citrons, Figges, Pome- granats, Coco-nuts, Supporters, Guava's, yellow Plums, Mameele, Cuftard-fruit, Water-Millions (a Fruit as big as a Pompion here, which yeelds about a quart, fome a pottle of very pleafant liquor, and very good againft the Stone Collick and Stone in the Bladder) Mufk-Millions, a kind of Cherries with three ftones, Prickle-peares, and Pinguins, all thefe very good, the trees alwayes green and pleafant to behold. The 16 m deration of neceflary charge, and paines of railes and pales is avoided ; for Lyme trees fence better then any quick fet in England, any eaiie hand of woman or lad can plant them, and they grow up and beare in two yeares. Three men will cut downe the woods, and fit an acre of ground in eight dayes to be planted, afterward the ground being kept cleane, is alwaies upon a mower of raine ready to bee planted, and one man may plant an acre of Corne in a day ; fo alfo Plantanes and Peafe ; and in two dayes a man may plant an acre of Potatoes : Corne and Pota- toes need weeding once a fortnight, and an Acre may be weeded by one man in two houres. Plant- anes after once planting, need little paines in hulbandry, only fometime fuperabundant fuckers taken away : The Land needs no dung, nor any fallow yeares ; the Indian corn needs no plowing nor harrowing ; the labour for providing hay and other fodder for winter is needleffe, the gralTe be- ing alwaies greene, fo that it is eafie to keep great droves of Cattell : One man by labour can pro- vide for twenty men ; the Indians are alfo apt to labour, and will be helpfull in making cordage, alfo in building and Smiths worke, fo likewife in Fifhing. By thefe particulars, and the former, it may be perceived how a godly people may be inabled in the Weft Indies to bee more liberall to God in publike and domeftike duties : which leifure feems to be contrived by providence in thefe benigne parts, to bring thefe Gentiles, to which ( 17 ) which every pious family will conduce fome- thing : alfo a people of large hearts may bee there more free to each other, in acts of hofpitality, curtefie, reliefe, and commerce, neither mall they be neceffitated by covetoufnefTe, or rigid dealing, to occafion reproach, under which fome are here, to the griefe of others and themfelves. Alfo pretious fouls fettled in thefe parts mall be ex- empted from the drudgery, which they are put to in England, and other places ; fo that as their names may be freed from reproach, their bodies may be freed from moyling, fo their hearts from a great deale of care ; yea, though they have many Servants and Children to keepe, they are not burdenfome, but helpfull : neither doth heat or cold procure any impeachment to the labour of body, or fludy of minde. The healthfulnerTe of the Climate : there is no 8 induce Itch, Scab, Diftillation by the nofe, nor Cough, nor Lice upon the body, nor fmall Poxe, Meafels, Confumption, Gout, Palfie, or any plethorique defeafes are feldome or never found there. The divifion or allotment of Lands in the firft yeare is to be as followeth, to be Freehold land ment to all the perfons hereafter mentioned, and their heires and affignes for ever hereafter, viz. i All that mall land at firft, and within the firft two moneths after the firft arrivall, are to have fixe acres for every head or perfon within foure miles of the Townes circumference, and fixty acres an head in fome other place : and Servants C are ment 1 8 ) are to have the like quantity when they come out of their times. 2 All that mall land betweene the firft two moneths and the end of the next foure moneths, are to have fixe acres an head within foure miles of the Townes circumference, and fifty acres an head in fome other place ; and fervants are to have the like quantity when they come out of their times. 3 All that mail land betweene the firft fixe moneths and the end of the next fixe moneths, are to have foure acres an head within foure miles of the Townes circumference, and 30 acres an head in fome other place, and fervants are to have the like quantity when they come out of their times. Moreover, unto every Mafter or Family there mall be allotted a certaine portion of ground in the town for building of houfes and for gardens, &c. and alfo to every Servant when they come out of their times. And for encouragement to well affected per- fons to contribute moneys for a publique ftock ; it is agreed, that he that puts into the faid pub- lique ftocke one hundred pounds, mall have for it five hundred Acres of Land, and his money paid him back againe in convenient time out of the publike profit and revenue, and fo propor- tionably for every fumme under or above one hundred pounds : and that every man not going in perfon mall notwithftanding if hee adventure any ( 19 ) any fumme of money, have the like priviledge : And likewife every man not going in perfon, but fending fervants, mall [have] the like priviledge for the faid fervants, as if he went in perfon, and his fervants at the expiration of the time of their fervice, demand and receive as their due the pro- portion of land above fpecified. OBJECTIONS OBJECTIONS Anfwered. Objea.i. O Ow 'will fay the heat of the Countrey is intolle- ^ rable. Anfwer. There are fome hundreds here in London, who belides the many thoufands of our Country men there (that have had opportunity of returning, had they defired it) beare witnefle to the con- trary ; the one refolving to end their dayes there ; the other generally deiiring nothing more, then to returne to thofe parts againe, as the onely fweete Climate, affording all comfortable meanes of Livelyhood, beyond any other latitude known to them in the whole World : befides, the tem- peratnefle of the Climate is cleared, not only by experience as aforefaid, but by reafon it felfe, for the coole aire rifing and increafing with the rifing and ftrength of the Sunne, which cooles and qualifies the otherwife extraordinary heat. Againe, the nights are long, the Sun fetting twelve houres, and the Sunne being directly under the Earth, the aire and earth is much cooled thereby. ( 21 ) thereby. And laftly, the GrafTe being alwaies greene, plainly demonftrates that there is no fuch parching heat as is conceived, and wee know to be in other Countreys. Some will fay the heat and plenty in thofe parts are Enemies to Procreation. The Spaniards who may be reckoned among the moft luxurious livers in the World, do con- fute this opinion ; for they have not only plenty of children begotten in Wedlocke, but alfo nu- merous multitudes of a mixt generation, which they beget on Negroes and Indian Women ; the firft called Molattoes, the other Mefteeces, of both which there are multitudes : and many Englifh Women have two children at a birth. Few Children live after two or three Teeres old, and rarely come to the ft ate of Men and Women. Though there hath been fome feeming ground Anfwer for this, in the mortality of divers heretofore, yet it is and ever was a meer fcandall ; as the Objec- tion arofe at firft from the fcandalous and moft intemperate courfes of Parents (in part) Mothers giving themfelves to the drinking of hot waters, as familiarly (when they could get them) as wee doe Beere here ; and not onely fo, but giving fuch ( 22 ) fuch burning drinks to their Children ; which how eafily it would deftroy and overthrow nature in our children here (when flames are added to the fire of their naturall heat, which abounds in them) all understanding men know ; belides wanting of milke and flem at their firft planting (wherein now they abound) the Children feeding continually and onely upon thofe lufcious fruits ; how commonly leffe excefle (in the delightfull fruits in our own Countrey and Climates) kill many children with Wormes, all know ; but fince they have had other food, both Milke and Flem, and where Parents take care to give them what is fit for them, this danger, and the Objec- tion therein is wholly avoided ; Children living now, and thriving as well there, where any care is had of them, as any doe here, if not much better. All which confidered and layed in the ballance, with the prefent fad and fuffering (& not eafily reparable) condition of many thoufands here, who either by the plundering and utter ruine of their Eftates, by the cruelty of the Cavaliers, or through the decay of Trading, made now fo unable to afford that helpe unto the State in relieving and fupplying fupplying others, that they are not able to fubfift themfelves ; and muft fuddenly (without little lefle than a miracle) prove very great burthens to others, as already they are to themfelves, and whenas fo comfortable, yea plentifull conditions of living and providing for their Families, invite them to thefe more propitious and abounding parts of the World ; it feemes not onely folly in multitudes of men that thinke there is no living out of the fmoke of their owne chimneys (that hardly afford any) but cruelty to themfelves and theirs, to welter and languim in a fordid condi- tion here at home, that might fo plentifull pro- vide for themfelves and theirs ; but ill affeclion to the State which they may ferve there, and muft over-burthen here. And laftly, it is moft of all ingratitude to the rich bounty and good- nefle of the Creator, that they are fo farre from making ufe thereof, that, they abhor the thoughts of going to fee his wonders in the deep, and the deep treafures of his wonderfull riches in thofe paradifes of the Earth, referved (as it feems) as a fpeciall part of the recompence of the ftraitnefle of his own people in thofe more glorious than is yet credited in other parts of the World. Acornes Acornes were and are thought good food, where bread is not knowne, but there is not that difproportion betweene Bread and Acornes, that indeed there is betweene thefe and thofe parts, the inclemency and barrennefs of thefe, put in comparifon with the fertility and nature cherifh- ing fweetneffe, affording fcarce any degree of comparifon ; Befides if fome good, though poore people were intermixt with the many thoufands of our owne Country-men already planted in the Weft India, they might impart fpirituall riches and treafures unto them, in participation of their temporalls, and bee both made not onely happy thereby themfelves, but communicate much of the riches of thofe plentifull parts to thefe (that are made indigent and wanting of them) both for their comfortable refreshment here and maintain- ing a great trade with other Nations. FINIS. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los Angeles This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. Form L9-Series 4939 > 4 \