Volume 1

Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber.

  • John Smith
Date:
1910
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Credit: Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [1607] Dudley Carleton. Letter to John Chamberlain. i 8 August 1607. \Extract!\ [State Papers, Domestic. James I. (1607) Vol. 28, No. 34. Aster Chamberlain, you may whilst you liue confess your obligation to Sir W. Cope, &c. And now you have all our domestike newes, for publike you shall vnderstand, that Captaine Newport is come from owr late adventurers to Virginia hauing left them in an Island in the midst of a great river 120 mile into the land. They write much commendations of the aire and the soile and the commodities of it: but siluer and golde haue they none, and they can not yet be at peace with the inhabitants of the cuntrie. They haue fortified themselfs and built a small towne which they call James-towne, and so they date theyr letters : but the towne me thincks hath no gracefull name, and besides the Spaniards who thinck it no small matter of moment how they stile theyr new populations will tell us I dowbt it comes too neere Villiaco. One Captaine Waiman a speciall favorit of Sir Walter Copes was taken the last weeke in a port in Kent shipping himself for Spaine with intent as is thought to have betraied his frends and shewed the Spaniards a meanes how to defeat this Verginian attempt. The great counsell of that State hath resolved of a dubble supplie to be sent thether with all diligence. The opinion is now generally that the Peace will be made in the low cuntreys. Sir Richard Spencer saw not the king, etc. from London this 18th of August. 1607, Yours most assuredly [Added below.] DUDLEY CaRLETON. Master Porie tells me of a name giuen by a Duchman who wrote to him in Latin from the new towne in Verginia, Jacobopolis, and Master Warner hath a letter from Master George Percie who names theyr towne James-fort, which we like best of all the rest because it comes neere to Chemes-ford.
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