Ebook The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England the Summer Isles

I o chiefe Justice of England, in the yeere I606. Procured meanes and men to possesse it, and sent Captalne Geor e Sir Francis Popham for President, Captaine Rawley Gilbert or pm! Admiral], Captaine Edward Harlow master of the Tm'mr' Ordnance, Captaine Robert Davis sargeant-major, Cap taine Elis Best Marshall, Master Seaman Secretary, Captaine James Davis to be Captaine of the Fort, Master Gome Carew chiefe Searcher: all those were of the Councell, who with some hundred more were to stay in the Country: they set saile from Plimoth the last of May, and fell with Monahigan the eleventh of August. At Sagadahock 9. Or io. Leagues southward, they planted themselves at the mouth of a faire navigable River, but the coast all thereabouts most extreme stony and rocky: that extreme frozen Winter was so cold they could not range nor search the Country, and their provision so small, they were glad to send all but 45. Of their company backe againe: their noble President Captaine Popham died, and not long after arrived two ships well provided of all necessaries to supply them, and some small time after another, by whom under [vi 204 standing of the death of the Lord chiefe Justice, and also of Sir John Gilbert, whose lands there the President Rawley Gilbert was to possesse according to the adven turers directions, finding nothing but extreme extremities, they all returned for England in the yeere 1608. And thus this Plantation was begunne and ended in one yeere, and the Country esteemed as a cold, barren, mountainous, rocky Desart.