410 James I. Naval Expeditions, occ of the English, Book III.
1606. The Reputation of this Place, byJ Charter the Character Captain Gosnoll had givenJeninUco- of ic > ?ut some Gentlemen upon beg-lony there, ging a Grant of it; Uupon which a Char-ter was granted to Thomas Hanham,Rawleigh Gilbert, William Parker,
George Popham, Esqs; and others of theTown of Plymouth, &c. to plant wherethey should think fit and convenient,between eight and thirty and five andforty Degrees, of Northern Latitude.
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Challon’r Hr, l 606. was made the
Attempt for 6fst Attempt for the Settlement in Newa Settlement .England, by Mr. Henry Challons, withEn * not above thirty Persons in all, amongf rated whom were two Natives of the Coun-try, in a small Ship, called the Richard,of Plymouth. This Voyage was under-taken at the Charges of the Right Ho-nourable Sir John Popham, Lord ChiefJustice of England, and Sir FerdinandoGorges, Governour of Plymouth Fort,who, with several other West-CountryGentlemen and Merchants, were con-cerned in the Company established bythe Charter I have just mentioned. Theyset out in August, but the Issue of thisAttempt was unfortunate ; For beinggotten as far as the Spanish West-IndianIslands, they fell in with a Fleet ofSpanish Ships, by whom they were ta-ken, and, after a great deal of ill Usage,carried into Spain, where their Treat-ment also was very cruel and inhu-mane. Purchas, without descending toother Particulars, fays only: His Mis-fortune exposed him to the Power ofcertain Strangers, Enemies to his Pro-ceedings, who seized his Company,confiscated Ship and Goods, and sowholly overthrew the Voyage. Whichplainly intimates, that he was a Sacrificeto the Jealousy of the Spaniards, whoenvied the Encrease of our Trade and
Smith’* Ge- (a) The Letters Patent granted by His Maje-neral Hist- sty, this Year, for the Limitation of Virginia,of Virginia, extended from four and thirty to five and forty,and was divided into two Parts, viz. the first Co-lony and the second. The first was to the Cityof London , and such as would adventure withthem, to discover, and take their Choice wherethey would, betwixt the Degrees of four andthirty, and one and forty. The second was ap-propriated to the Cities of Bristol , Exeter , Ply-mouth, 8cc. and the West-Parts of England, andall those who would adventure and joyn withthem, and they were allowed to make theirChoiceany where between the Degrees of eight andthirty and five and forty, provided there shouldbe at least a Hundred Miles Distance between
Settlements in those Parts: But how the 1606.Government and Ministry could fit still,and patiently suffer such Depredations,in Time of Peace, was, in those Days,thought strange; Tho’ the like has, oflater Years, been more familiar to us.
This Misfortune considerably damp-ed the Courage of the first Adventurers;
However, the Lord Chief justice Pop- ^ham, quickly after, before he had anyAdvice of the Disaster which had hap-pened to Mr. Challons, sent out anotherShip, under the Command of CaptainHanham, one of the Pattentees, withall Necessaries for his Support; Tho’this Gentleman’s Business was not somuch to plant, as to make Discoveriesin Order to it: Arriving at the Place Succeeds bet-appointed, but not finding Mr. Chalons ter ’there, after having made some Disco-veries, he returned, and gave so poodan Account of the Country, that' allPeople were as much encouraged, asthey had been the contrary, by the firstMiscarriage, and those who fell off be-fore, n,ow came boldly on to be Ad-venturers again. Sir John Popham, andevery one else who were before con-cerned in this Design, were now soconfident of it’s Success, that they wil-lingly joined in the Expence requiredfor fending over, the next Year, acompetent Number of People, to laythe Ground-work of so promising aPlantation.
Hereupon Captain Popham (st) and ^ At ~Captain Gilbert, two others of the Pa- tem A-tentees, were sent away with two Shipsand a Hundred Men, with Ordnance,
Stores, and all necessary Provisions for
their Use, ’till farther Supplies could
be sent. These Gentlemen set Sail
from Plymouth, the last of May, 1607.
and arrived at Monahigan , the eleventh Their Set-
of August. They seated themselves at tlement -
Sagadahock ,
these two Colonies, each of which had Laws, Pri-vileges and Authority for the Government andEstabliihment of their several Plantations alike. .
(b) Smith, in his General History of Virginia, s f e ' '
&c. fays: Sir John Popham, having in the Year, ne fst1606. procured Means and Men to possess New Vr 2 ima ’ ;England, sent Captain George Popham, for Presi- ’
dent, Captain Rawleigh Gilbert , for Admiral,
Captain Edward Harlow , as Master of the Ord-nance, Captain Robert Davis, Serjeant-Major,
Captain Elias Best, Marlhal, Mr. Seaman, Se- ‘ -
cretary, Captain James Davis, to be Commanderof the Fort, and Mr. Gome Carew, chief Search-er ; All which were of the Council, and, with a-bont a Hundred more, were to stay in the Coun-try.