A sommary description manifesting that greater profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could [sic] parts off the coast off America and how much the public good is concerned therein referring to the annexed advertissement for men inclined to plantations.

ADVERTISSEMENT For men inclyned to PLANTASIONS IN AMERICA.

At ROTTERDAM, Printed by Henry Goddaeus, Booke Printer att the red Bridge / In the Booke Printing. ANNO 1660.

ADVERTISSEMENT.

AS men whoe doe resolve to leave theire naturall Country to apply them selves to Plantations must have for theire maine Scope either the publike or theire particular inte∣rest / which thy must promote by right and most conve∣nient meanes / without which it otherwayes would be impossible to compasse the same.

So men whome doe leave a could Country transporting themselves far frome thence / to plant in as could a clyme into annother part of the World (as that wherein thy were borne and bred) cannott Improve themselves by Plantations / as thy might well in a more hott region / where the ground yelds frinte and grothe all the yeare long / according as credible travellers doe report; and as thy prove how much the greater profits can be made on the Charibdis Eyslands (as Tobago Granada / Mardeloupe. S. Eustache / Lucie / Martinique / Christoffers / and Barbados / etc. (seated under a warme degree) then in Virginia / Eskeve / Niew Engeland / etc. So it is most certayne that the firme Land on the coast of America (frome One untill 9. and ten de∣grees by Nord the lyne) is to be preferred before the Eylands; for as that coast is not subiect to Hieracans / (as the Eylands are) it is most fruitful / and hath many convenient Divers for Plantations; and in severall parts inhabitants (though very fiew in number) of very good natuere

By the late Surwey which hath been made of the coast of America / experience tells that frome one untill 9. and ten degrees by Nord the Lyne / theire are Lands where on store of People could be setled / and that the grounds are most fit for Sugar / Tobacco / Indigo / Cotton / and all Seedes of Fruites soever / Store of wilde Boares Deares and Rabits to be had theire; as all kinde of good foules / the Seas and Rivers a∣bounding in store of greate / fatt / and wholsome fish / besides an infi∣nite number of Tortuses / which is a wholsome foode; as likewyse Sea∣kowes / which the natifs (called the wilde) are willing to take / and doe serve for those that will either transporte the same to the Eylands or fee∣de on them; as thy may bee had for so small a thing as is almost incredible to witt a Cortlis (where on 20 men may plentiously feede a whole day / for an Irron hatchet / and 2 pennyworth off glas beads; The Sea-kow

(waying foure a five hundred pound) for a couple off Axes / and one hatchet / with some smal beads; twinty •• thirty pots of drinke (called Pernaw as good as any beare) for one knijf with a wihtt bone handle / worth two pence and halve / wild deare / fish / fruite / and foule according unto that ratte; So as besides the feeding there with number of men theire can bee a very profitable trade settled / and driven with the afore∣said Sea-Cowes / and Tortuses; thy being salted / and transported to the Enlands / where for one pound of that salted fish two a three pound of Tobaco may behad; and as for a Hamoc (which costs butt one hat∣chet worth two schillings) twenty schillings man bee gotten.

And as the Lands on the mayne continent are more fruitfull then the Eylands and wholsome / so are thy of a large extent; and doe beare in certayne parts costly woods for divers works / and dyinge / all kinde off excellent gummes / as Lemnae; Balms / Rocoux (which is a Scharlat dye) and other collours / Armadac / Senniment-Clove / nutmeg / and Mace / as theire is Honny as cleere as Christall / and ware; So is theire most certainly mynes of Silver / and Gold / where of proofes have been made / and certayne cheefs of the Charibdiens ha∣ve shuen severall patterns / as also off severall woods / Colours / gum∣mes / and other hings off worth to be had theire / some off these natiffs also knowing in what parts and in what Rivers precious / Stones are to be found / as likwyse with what nations Must bee treated for the sa∣me / so men will (and can) live without giving offence on the subject of their Wives and Daughters.

The severall parts which can bee inhabited by Planters and that are free (nor needing armed men to take pocession off them) have good Ri∣vers / some large Bayes / affording number of Sea-kowes; so theire Strands Store of Tortuses.

Those who would plant on Rivers which end with watter falls must have small flatt bottom boates / as Indian Canoos; to hayle them from one water fall to the next River over Land / to gett upp deepe into the mayne Land; carry allong store of victualls / and drinke / of Strang water / feare the want there off make them loose their labour / and hop-full expectation; as happened to severall french and others / wo did seeke for el Dorado / and Manva / and sayd to have come shortt butt one dayes Journey of Hills that prommissed wonder full Tresors; Not to be sauht in an imaginary region / butt to bee found on that con∣tinet by Perssons whoe are suffered to apply theire best Endeaviours to the same / and whoe are nott Trayterously (and murdorously) used as Sir Balthazar Gerbeer hath been in the yeare 1660. on the 7. day off May / when after his arrivall on the aforesaid Coast of America / and that he had gayned on the affections off certayne cheef of the Charibdis (who braught unto him severall paterns of the things before mentioned / and

as wyett in his pocession; contracted frenshipp with him by theire grab Tye of Ponnary) was by Trusties (send along from Holland) nott only sett uppon / butt alsoo the perssons off his Wyff and Daugh∣ters; those unnaturall men (worse then Heathens pocest with evill Spirrits) theire horride dessyne being as then to murder an Innocent harmlesse familly / to the end that theire might nott remayne one a life of the familly who could pretend right in those parts / in consequence off a graunt which the sayd Sir Balthazar Gerber (in a tyme that his Majesty of greate Bittane nor none of his partye was in casse to coutenance a Plantation in that part off the World where off the late Duke of Buc∣kingham during his being att Madrid in the yeare 1623. gott Notice.) had receaved from the Lords Estates generall of the unyted Provinces / and from the West Indian Compagny.

To which bluddy dessyne (of the murderers which cost the life off one off the sayd Sir Balthazar Gerbeers Daughters to witt Catharin, the sayd murderers trustees were (as hath been since discovered) secretly ins∣tructed / by a particular ring-leder (even from the beginning of the vo∣yage from Holland) to sett uppon the Proprietary / as the mayne grand scope of men who would betray theire oune fathers / and bro∣thers / to attayne to the Mamon of the World.

Truth having manifested the same on this particular casse / and that thy made no scruple to exercisse any open Violence / which thy were not ashamed to putt in practise by hailing Sir Balthazar Gerbeer (and the rem∣nant of his family) violently from the aforesayd Coast / to the ende the abetters off the pryme Trustye might remayne as independents / and send to the place a broede off theire owne Tribe; and therefore commen∣ded highly that prime thrustie for his doings; Necessity to preserve theire interest it so requiring (sayd they) and being not as hamed to ar∣gue that theire sayd Interest had been in greate dangiour in casse Sir Bal∣thazar Gerbeer should have knouwnen that the king off greate Brittanne was restorred to his right / for that ten he would have advertised the En∣glish nation (the best off all others aquanited with Plantations) off the good which was to bee done on the Coast of America / and how thy might have enlarged the Colonie of the English at Sarenamme.

And therefore (say they) theire prime thrusty to have deserved greate applause for al the violence committed against Sir Balthazar Gerbers pers∣son; and they to have had greate causse to drive him to a non plus / after his returne to Amsterdam; hinder him (iff possibly thy could) from departing from Holland; to remaayne in pocession of his papers / Ori∣ginall Evidences against the murderers; and producing any witnesses against them / finally to remayne master of his graunts / and ••••troys / which thy forced from him by an outragious apprehention of his pers∣son

with violation off their contracts; and yett pretending that the in∣fraction of them and the injurious proceeding against the sayd Sir Baltha∣zar Gerbers persson was without knowledge off the whole association / and only hammered by two or three off theire members / in number above thirty two / and pretending (as these two or three att the most sayd) on∣ly to satisfy theire particular curiosity with the view off his papers / and off the graunts / Swearing and vouwing that none off all those off the Company had the least thought off the World ever any more to looke after Gould nor Silver on the American coast / nor to send theither / when as to the contrary / thy being no soeuer in pocession off all Sir Balthazar Gerbers Evidences (nay of papers which did not concerne that dessyne and as yett by them shame fully and unjustly detayned) Butt thy im∣mediatly caused the ship called the Ecudracht to be prepared / and re∣tayned as many of the men as might fitt theire turne / which thy have appointed to returne to the place from whence Sir Balthazar Gerber and his familly was so violently hayled; and have ordered theire sayd brood to spend a yeare or two in a generall Search throughout all those Territories / for all what is to bee gotten theire.

But hou such men so unjustly proceding may speede God (whose arme reatcheth further then the ends off this visible World) knowith; and tyme will Manifest / As this may serve to althose that are curious to knowe sommarily the truth of this casse; and to onderstand on what conditions wich might ingage on such a good dessyne / and houw Planters may inprove them selves in those parts; as namly. All Planters may pocesse gratis in propriety so much Land as they can mannuer, with an entire freedome to dispose thereof, either by will, deed, Covenant or Contract, all Plan∣ters bee free off Customes, rights, or dueties, during the thime of ten yeares; have slaves for fifthien pound a peece, pay them either in reddy monny or with the commodities off thire owne plantations, taking the tyme of five yeares for the same. Freely enjoy all such mynes off Salpeter, Irron, Copper, Silver, Gould, Christal, Precious, Stonnes; Marble, as Planters may finde wit∣hin theire allotted Lands; paying for them after the five yeares a certayne duty offten in the hundred, fisshing, hunting, and cutting off wood for buil∣ding and fire free; and enjoy libertye off Consience: be transported to the pla∣ce within the tyme off two months, the winds being prosperous, and make choisse off theire habitations, either neere the Bayes or Rivers where the Sea-Cowes are in greate aboundance, or lower, towards Cap Orannie; or in the River Wi••poca, wherein ships (drawing deepe ten foote water) may well ride att an A••ker, as in that off Apperwake (4 degrees by North the Lyne) for that the sayd River off Apper, wake is in its entrance (at half Ebb) fourtein foote dee∣pe, and hath 3. 4. and 5. fadoms wator untill 14. dutch leagues up the River; 50.

hath the River on the east side in the River Apperwake, and good Lands, some 6 or 7 mysles high: WIA betweene 4 and 5 degrees (and syding on the Eyland Cajany) a goodly River, Wherein Ships (that drawe 12 foote) may enter and ryde safely; and is deepe 4. 5. a 6 fadoms. the Land (two mysles from the Sea) a most fruitfull Soill; so is Cunanama and Tamary by Nord Cajany, towards Sarenamme.

What profits such Planters (that have somewhat to bestow on ares / hatchets / glas beades / and coursse Linnen for the inhabitans / to witt / certayne Charibdiens who frequent those Rivers with theire Ca∣noos) may doe is plainly exprest in this Advertissement.

Wat profit a company may doe (without to greate charges) is lyk∣wijse demonstrated / for as a quantity, off Salt taken from the Eylands may serve to salt Sea-Cowes, and Tortuses, to send to the Charribdis Eylands; as likweyse a Chargarsoen off Beeff, Porc; Oyle, Sac. strong waters, stuffs, and Linnen Coers and other. will quitt all the charges for the transportation, and settling off the Planters. so the setting men att worke on the my∣kes / gathering of all things off profit / and making sarch through those parts / according unto the contents off this advertissement / and the secret information which the autor had long sincs / which as he in∣tend it for the publike good / so may all men (desirous to improve them selves that way) bee further satisfyed on what theire Interests may require concerning the same; by making theire adresses unto him.

And See by the following Lines / what just cause the author hath had (making mention of the perfidious proceeding of men against his persson and familly) to point so particularly (as he doth) att some off them / since thy have beene so malitiously Inpudent as to vent a woreld off falce hoods concerning his proceding / and to expound the best care he could apply for the furthering off the dessyne in an ill perversse and horridde sence; theire trusties having been so abominabel wicked as to pocesse all the People (that was inbarckt att Vessel) that his dessy∣ne was to epose them all to a Boucherie off other nations in Europe. by cause he on the occasion off a crake which the mayne mast of the prime Ship had gotten on the hight of Hitland) consulted the Captayne off the Ship where annother mast could bee had / where on the Captayne replied England / which the perfidious Trusties made use of as to ar∣gue the same to have been a plott to runne with al the Equipage into England and that after his arrivall att the Eyland Cajana 5. degrees bynord the Lyne (where one Jan Klaessen Langendijck. One of the West∣dian Companies Officer theire receaved the authors familly / and lod∣ged the same during a necessary tyme off refreshment when Denis Bringor (heere to fore Captayne off a French Shipp butt now a Plan∣ter

on Cajana; did speake with Sir Balthazar Gerber, as likwyse one Ca∣pitayn Tillet did / where on (though the sayd perssons theire conversa∣tion / with Sir Balthazar Gerber, tended butt to advertise him of advantages to be made in those parts / yett The blud thirsty disguised the more theire resolved ficious thereon / and trayterously abused even off the Lords States Generall by framing an act off arrest of the persson of Sir Bal∣thazar Gerber, wherein thy alledged / that thy where authorised to proceede as thy did / and that by the sayd Lord States Order; and having in that manner surprised the capacity off Soldiours (which thy had made drunke with strang Waters / and provided with armes and Shott) Ledd them on the 7 of May the year 1660 (when the Commander Lan∣gendyck was not in his Fort) to breake in his House / as thy did about dinner tyme; sett uppon the sayd Sir Balthasar Gerbers famully / and after thy had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to kill Debora his Yongest Daughter / shott Catharina) who departed this World that night / sho••t Mary her Sister through her right Legg / and sett a pistol on the head off Sir Balthazar, butt fayled / yett would have dispatcht him and the remnant off his family had the Murderers not been prevented by the Inhabitants off Cajany; and by the returne off the Commander Langendyke, who putt some off the murderers in the Irrons; save one Rijnier van Buren whoe did act his Trayterous act so (according unto the secret instructions which he pre∣tendid to have had before the departure off the Equipage fron Terell) as to gayne the masters off the Ships / and the Sea-men to hoyle Sir Balthazar Gerber and his familly on board / to worke outt that dessijne where by his abetters would stripp the proprietary as aforesayd of his ryght; which being matter off fact / hath been (by witnesses exami∣ned uppon Interrogatoires) declared uppon oath / before the Magi∣strat off Amsterdam / as appeared by theire declaration and theire Citty Scale theire unto applyed; In conclusion it may be sayd that whoe hath had to doe with such a broade may alledge the words.

I have laboured in vayne. I have spent my strenght, for nought, and in vayne; Isaiah. ca. 49. v. 4. B. G. D.

These wil 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bee had (att the weekly Intelligencer at London / as (heere after) an exact description of the profits to bee done more in the warme then in te could contries of America.