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7. If you have trade at Berbados, you are to consult with Sir Jnº. Yeamans & Mr. Tho. Colleton of ye best course you can take to get a quicke fraught of Passengers for River Ashley (ye carry- ing of Passengers being ye maine end of our sending out this Ship,) and you are to lay out ye produce of ye Cargo of Timber,
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&c., & what you shall get for fraught of Passengers, &c., in Rum and Sugar and other goods fit to make a Cargo for ye trade of Virginia.
8. At Berbados you are to enquire and bring us an acct. w. those Bills charged upon us by Mr. Colleton were for.
9. As soon as you have gotten your loading of Passengers you are to sayle to River Ashley againe, and as soon as ye ship is there deliverd you are to sayle to Virginia and there lay out ye pro- duce of yr. Rum & Sugar in Cattle, weh. you are to transport to Ashley River, and these deliver to Mr. West, ye remainder of yr. Cargo you are to lay out in Provisions, &c., fit for y" market of Berbados, if there be not any need of them in Carolina.
10. Dureing your stay in Virginia you are to state y? accts. between us & Mr. Godwin & Mr. Bennet, concerning weh. you must remember. 1st. That they give us noe acct. at all wt. our Cargo yielded wch. came into theire hands, as appears by their letters, & whereof you have an Invoye was sold for there. 24. Mr. Bennet states his acct. to us in money, whereas ye scale of Com- merce in that Countrey being Tobacco, wee have reason by ye prices wee finde sett downe in his acct. to thinke he recond all those things too dear, weh., 34. Wee have more reason to suspect, because he Hath not as Mr. Godwin has set downe in his acct. ye Persons from whom he bought those things wee had of him. Concerning all these accts. of Virginia, ye rates of ye things therein mentioned, & ye way how wee may have right done us you are to apply yrselfe to Sr. William Berkley & Sr. Henry Chichiley & Mr. Applewaight, and to informe yourselfe by any other ways yt. you can.
11. God sending you safe to River Ashley you are to sayle to Berbados with another Cargo of Timber, &c., y" produce whereof you are to invest in a Cargo fit for ye Bahamas, and if Passengers doe present, to sayle from thence to Ashley River, and from Ash- ley River to New Providence, and there to deliver ye Boxes & Letters sent by you, & y" 4 Sakers with theire Carriages, & yo shot belonging to them, and ye 2 Barrells of Powder to ye Governor there, for ye use of ye Island, and make use of his assistance for ye sale of y' rum and Sugar for ye proenreing yon a loading of Brasiletto wood, and wt. else is to be had there fit for y" Market of England, with weh., if ye ship be full yon are to come directly for London, if shee be not, you are to touch againe at River Ashley, and fill her with ye best Stocks of Cedar you can finde, & from thence to sayle for London.
12. If you shall judge it unsafe to trade at Barbados by reason of any infectionse disease there, you are then with as much safety as you can to deliver ye Timber to Mr. Ju. Strode, & haveing gotten on board things necessary to load salt, you are to sayle to the Salt Tartugos, and there load your ship with Salt, & sayle with her to Virginia, & from thence, as is above directed
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13. In all ye trips you shall make to any place in ye West Indies, you are still to remember yt. ye cheife imploymt., wee send our ship for is to carry people to our Plantacon at Ashley River, wch. designe you are maincly to intend, and to minde ye other businesse of Traffique but as it may be in subserviency to yt., and in concurrence therewth., may helpe to beare ye charges of- our Ship whilst shee is abroade.
14. In all ye places you goe, you are to learne as much as you can, any of ye husbandry of Manufactures of ye place, weh. may be usefull to our people in Carolina, as particularly in Virginia ye sorts, & ordering of mulberry trees, Silkeworms & all belonging to ye right way of makeing ye best Silk, Tobacco, Indigo, Cotton, &c., & this to communicate to our people at Ashley River, & particularly you are to carry from Virginia some of ye best sort of mulberry trees for Silkworms & plant them there.
15. You are to consult with ye Governor & Councel at Ashley River about ye best way of disposeing of our Stores, and our being repayd by ye Peeple for wt. wee trust them with, and to informe them yt. as wee aime at theire thriveing, and to that end liave been soe much out of purse, soe wee expect from them faire and punctuall dealeing in repaying us for what wee let them have, upon wah. faire dealing of theires will depend ye continuation of our Supplys.
16. If you shall by any accident at any time before your second voyage to Berbados touch at Bermudos, you are there to leave with Mr. Jnº. Dorrell, Sen"., ye Duplicates of our Dispatches to New Providence, to be sent forwards thither by ye first opertunity.
17. If dureing yr. being abroad you shall finde yt. a Trip to any other place, or in any other order than wt. wee have here directed, shall better serve to ye Lords Proprs. designes of carrying people and turne to better account; Wee then leave it to your prudence, still keeping in your eye our mayne designe as in Article ye 13, onely wee would not have you at all goe to Jamaica upon any pretense.
18. You are to take an account of ye ships stores & ye expences thereof, from time to time dureing y" whole voyage.
CRAVEN, ASIILEY,
G. CARTERET,
P. COLLETON.
Whitehall, May 1º, 1671.
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S. P. O. Nº. CAROL., B. T., VOL. 2, p. 74.
Lords Proprietors to Capt. Halsted.
2 January, 1671-2.
Capt. Halsted,
We have received your Dispatches, both from Barbadoes & New York, and are extremely well satisfied with your manage- ment of our affairs, and the account you give us thereof. Having taken new resolutions concerning your stay abroad, you are to govern yourself by these following Instructions :
1. If these Instructions meet you at Barbadoes, & a sufficient freight of passengers or goods for Carolina present there, you are with all speede to loade and saile for Ashley River.
2. When you have unloaden at Ashley River, you are to take in ye Carriages seut by Capt. Jeffryes, belongs. to the Guns appointed for Providence, & with them and other things directed to Providence you are to saile thither.
3. If no sufficient freight present at Barbadoes for Carolina you are then to saile from Barbadoes directly to Providence.
4. God sending you safe to Providence, you are there to deliver up to Capt. John Wentworth the Commis". herewith sent you, & the other things as in your former Instructions, & having enquired out the fit men to be our Deputies, you are to fill up the blank Deputations herewith sent you. My Lord Craven having formerly deputed Capt. David, My Lord Ashley, John Robinson, Sir George Carteret, Richard Jones, & Sir Peter Colleton, Jarvis Ingolsby. You are to continue as many of them in the same Deputuations as you shall find not to be unfit.
5. We having intentions for the better support of the people, & settlement of that Plantation, to set up a Factory there, you are carefully to inform yourself in these following particulars :
1. What number of people are upon the place.
2. What goods are there most wanted, & will sell best.
3. What quantities the people will take off.
4. What commodities the Island doth afford, & the people are able to make returns in.
5. Whether they are able to make ready pay for what we furnish.
6. If we should trust any of them what security could be given for our repayment.
7. Whether there be any one upon the place fit for us to entrust as our Factor.
8. What Whales do haunt those Islands, & what profit might be made by setting up a whale fishery.
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9. What vessels use the trade of those Islands, and what wages they make as to profit.
6. We having prohibited the cutting of Brasiletto wood, & ye coasting for Ambergris, Spermacetti & wrack good to any but such as the Governor, three of our Deputies, & our agent, whilst there, (which you now at present are) shall license., We wd. have you let the Govern' know that we wd. have none licensed when we have a Cargo there, to cut Brasiletto wood, or to coast for Ambergris, &c., but such as will not only give security to make good to us one-fifth part of Ambergris, &c., wch we reserve to ourselves, but also to sell us all the wood they shall cut, & ye remaining four parts of all the Ambergris & Spermacetti at reasonable rates agreed with them. In weh. trade the Governor, if he pleases, shall have a share with us.
7. In ordr. to this trade We intend to have a Factory there, & to keepe a stock going for Brasiletto wood, & for these other things above mentioned. And to this purpose we wd. have you prepare the business, & try what rates we may agree with the people to have thein at when we send a Cargo thither. And till we have goods there to pay for them, those who are licensed are only to deliver the one-fifth part (which we reserve) to our agent, & in his absence to the Governor, but their own shares, being the remaining four parts, they may dispose of as they please.
8. Having dispatched all things in Providence according to your Instructions, you are to take in what Brasiletto wood or other Commodities present fit for ye market of London upon freight or otherwise, & from thence sail to Ashley River, & there complete yr. loadeing with the choicest stocks of cedar squared, & soe come directly hither.
9. At yr. return to Carolina from Barbadoes you are to take what order you can with Mr. West that a ship loadeing of square stocks of Cedar be readye for you against your returne thither from Providence.
10. In all the stays you shall at any time make at Ashley River, we wd. have you make what discoveryes you can in the Rivers & Countries thereabouts, wherein we have writ to the Governor & Council to be assisting to you.
Your very loving Friends,
ASHLEY, CRAVEN,
G. CARTERET, P. COLLETON.
Whitchall, 24 January, 1671-2.
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S. P. O. NORTH CAROLINA. B. T., VOL. 2, p. 90.
Concessions of y' Lords Prop". of Carolina to certain persons in Ireland.
31 August, 1672.
Every freeman that arrives in Carolina to plant there wthin. one yeare after ye date hereof, shall have for himselfe one hundred acres of freehould. And for each man servant above sixteene yeares of age he carrys wth. him, or causeth to be transported, one hun- dred acres. And seaventy acres for each Woman he carrys wth. him in his family or causeth to be transported. And scaventy acres for each man servant he carrys wth him under sixteene years old, to him & his heires for ever, paying to ye Lords Proprietors after ye yeare 1689, one penny pr. acre annuall rent.
Every servant when out of his or her time, shall have seventy acres of freehould for ever under the same rent.
. Those that goe may (if they please) take up one or more Collonys according to their number, and ye quantity of land granted by theise concessions entirely to themselves, wherein they may have ye free exercise of their Religeon according to their owne discipline. And alsoe such as carry people enough to have right to soe great lotts, may if they please, take up mannors, vid. fund. const. : 17.
It is required of them in order to their better settlement that they plant together in townes, & build not their houses straglingly one from another, such sollitary dwellings being uncapcable of that benefitt of trade, ye comfort of society and mutuall assistance, w-ch. men dwelling together in Townes are capable of giveing one another. And therefore in each Collony there must be at least one Towne, the placeing whereof we leave to their own choice. But ye Streets we wd. have for ye convenience of the Inhabitants, straight, broad and reguler.
The Worthy person the Undertaker, if he gett 600 men to be transported thither wthin a yeare, shall be made a Landgrave, vid. fund. cons. : 9, and have fower Barronys. If 900 he shall (besides being himselfe a Landgrave) have the nomination of a Cassique. If twelve hundred or upwards, he shall have the nomination of two Cassiques.
Every man that goes must carry wth. him at least one yeares provizion, and for other things to be carryed and ye best way of transporting themselves and stocks, we will give them the best advice we cann.
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S. P. O. Nº. CAROLINA. B. T., VOL. 2, p. 62.
Instructions to the Governor and Council of Ashley River.
1 May, 1671. -
[Parliam'. ] -- 1. You are within thirty days after receit hereof to summon ye Frecholders of ye Plantation, & require them in our names to elect 20 persons who, together with our Deputys as our Representatives, for ye present are to be your Parliamt., by and with whose consent, or y" major part of them, you are to make such Laws as you shall finde necessary, weh. Acts shall be in force as in yt. case is provided in our Fundamentall Constitutions & Temporary Laws.
[Parliam'. ] -- 2. After ye same maner till our Fundamentall Constitute. can be put in practice yo" are to call a Parliamt. ye first Monday in November. every two years, and as often besides as y" state of our affaires in or. Plantat". shall require.
[Grand Council. ]-3. You are to require ye Parliamt. to choose five men whom they think fittest to be joyned with our five Deputys, who with ye five eldest men of the Nobility arc to be your Grand Councell.
[100 Acres. ]-4. You are to take notice yt. wee doc grant unto every free person yt. shall arrive to plant & inhabit in Caro- lina before ye 26th March, 1672, 100 acres, & 100 acres more for each growne man Servt. they bring with y". or cause to be trans- ported into ye sd. Province, & 70 Acres for cach Woman Servant they bring with them, or man Servt. under 16 years of age, and to every servant yt. shall arrive before yt. time 70 acres, to his or her proper use when they shall respectively be out of their time, to ym. and their Heirs forever, & y" same conditions wee grant to all persons yt. shall arrive to plant & inhabit in Carolina after ye sd. 26 March, '72, untill you receive from us farther Instructions con- cerning this matter.
[ Squares. ]-5. You are to cause ye Land to be layd out into Squares, each containeing 12,000 Acres, weh. Squares are to be bounded by Limits runeing directly from East to West, & from North to South, and be set out for Seignnrys, Colonys & Bar- ronys, as in yr. former Instructions.
[ Townes. ]-6. You are to cause all yt. take up Land in one and ye same Colony to set their houses togeather in one place, but ye place weh. shall be set out for yt. Towne wee leave to ye choice of ye Inhabitants themselves of each Towne respectively.
[ Modell .* ]-7. When ye place for ye Towne is chosen by those
# That ye Model of ye Towne mentioned, 7, was of streets runing strait, whereof ye largest was 80 foot, ye back street to yt. 40 foot, ye next, 60 foot. & ye back street 30, wch. streets divided the Towne into Squares, each of whose sides was 600 foot.
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who are to dwell in it ye Surveyor shall lay out Streets according to ye modell herewith sent as near as ye particular scituation of ye place will admit, and those who afterwards build in yt. Towne shall set theire houses fronteing to those Streetes soe layd out and take soc many foote as in ye Front of theire building towards yo Street in breadth, and soe farr backwards towards ye next street behind, in length as shall be convenient for outlet, belonging to ye st. house, that soe when hereafter ye Towne shall come to be built with good houses, ye Streets alsoe may be large, convenient and regular.
[Wharf. ]-8. In.all Townes built upon navigable Rivers, or Rivers capable of being made navigable, noebody shall build a louise within SO foote of ye low water marke, but it shall con- stantly be left for a Wharfe for ye publick use of y Towne.
[Common. ]-9. Round about ye place chosen for ye Towne to be built on there shall be set out a Common of 200 acres, where ye Inhabitants of y" Towne at theire first comeing may plant theire Provisions, whilst ye Surveyor is measureing out yre, distinct home & out Lotts, weh. common shall be made use of by ye st. Towne for ye planting of Provisions for each housholder, proportionably to ye number of persons in his Family for ye first one & twenty years after theire planting there, and after yt. time shall be a piece of ground belonging to ye Inhabitants of ye Towne in Common for ye feeding of theire Cattell, exercise of ye people, enlargemt. or any other Conveniencys of ye sd. Towne as occasion shall require.
[Lots. ]-10. In ye setting out ye lands for ye Inhabitants of any Towne in any Colony you shall set out for each frecholder in two Lots, one called his home Lot, all in one peice, consisteing of not above one twentyeth part of his whole right, and ye other remayneing part called his out Lot in another, altogcather in what place he shall like best, provided it be not within that dis- tance of ye Towne weh. is designed for home Lots for others, and in setting ont all ye lots noe man shall have more than one fifty of ye length of his Lot to front upon any Navigable River, or any River capable of being made Navigable.
[Inland. ]-11. Wee would have you as much as you can to direct and perswade ye people to plant as far up in ye Conntrey as may be to avoyd ye ill aire of ye low lands near ye Sea, web. may endanger theire health at theire first comeing.
[Port. ]-12. The first convenient healthy highland upon yo River Ashley we desire you to send us a Description of, & your opinion whether it be not fit to build ye Cheife Port Towne on ye River for ye unloading of ships yt. shall come to Carolina.
[Map. ]-13. You are alsoe to send us a Description of River Ashley & Wando River, drawne by a Compasse and Seale, and a Map of ye Contrey divided into Squares of 12,000 Acres apiece, by lines runeing East & West, North & South.
[Indians. ]-14. If any people shall, with armes invade you
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and with Acts of Hostility molest you in your Plantacon, you are to defend yourselves against them and doe for your preservation and future security what y". shall finde requisite, but you are always to remember to keep a faire correspondence with all ye people round about you who doe you noe harme, and to be very carefull not to give them any occasion of offence, and to make them ample satisfaction when any of our people shall doe them any injury by punishing ye Offenders, and making them Reparacon.
[Beads. ]-15. Since a great part of ye Commodityes wee have from ye Indians is bought with beades, and it is of great concernmt. to onr people there, yt. yo value of beades should be kept up with ye Indians, if you have not already better provided, yt. it may be done, We would have one or two of ye discreetest men in every Towne, be chosen and appointed by ye Inhabitants of ye sd. Towne to truck wth. ye Indians for Beades, and yt. noe body else be permitted (but men soe appointed) to give ye Indians beades for any Commodity, but yt. whoever would buy any thing of an Indian for Beads, should bring ye Indian and his Commodity to one of ye men soe appointed, who shall agree wth. ye Indian for ye Commodity at such a quantity of beads as he shall thinke fitt & reasonable. That soe by ye Covetousenesse or ill managemt. of any of ye private planters, ye rate of Beades may not be brought low among the Indians. The choice of those men who are thus to trade with ye Indians shall be in every Towne once every month.
[ Stores. ]-16. You are to take care yt. by a too forward and easy disposeing ye things in our Stores, our Stock of Provision and other Comodityes there be not spent idely, weh. are to be kept there for and allowed onely to such as stand in absolute necessity of them. You are alsoe to take care yt. those yt. take them up pay us in worke or ye produce of ye Countrey.
[ Timber. ] -* 18. You are to take care upon ye arrivall of our Ship, ye Blessing, yt. there be forthwith provided a Ship loading of such Timber as Capt. IIalsted, Capt. of ye said Ship shall direct, and for ye speedier Dispatch away of our sd. Ship.
[ Debts. ] -* Wee would have you to indeavour to procure such and soe many of those who are in our Debts for things taken out of our Stores, to worke at moderate rates about ye cuting, square- ing, and loading of ye s4. Cargo of Timber, as shall be convenient for ye expediteing ye same s4. worke and quick Dispatch of our sd. Shipp.
[Landgraves. ]-19. You are to take notice yt. wee have made Mr. James Carteret, S. Jnº. Yeamans and Mr. Jno. Locke, Land- graves, and you are accordingly to set them out theire Barronys according to our Fundamentall Constitucons and Temporary Laws,
* It will be seen No. 17 is missing, but the following instruction which should be 18 is not numbered.
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when ever they or either of them, or any one authorized by either of them, shall require it respectively.
[ Ways. ]-20. In ye granting and setting out every man's Lot, you are to reserve convenient high ways from ye Colony Towne to ye Plantations yt. shall be beyond it, and from one Colony Towne to another.
CRAVEN, ASIILEY, G. CARTERET, P. COLLETON.
White Hall, 1st May, 1671.
S. P. O. NORTH CAROLINA. B. T., VOL. 2, p. 79.
Instructions to ye Governor & Council of Carolina at Charles Towne on Ashley River.
16 Dec., 1671.
1. In the Government of our affairs in the Plantacon committed to yr. care, you are to follow such rules as we have given in our Fundamentall Constitutions, Temporary Laws & Instructions formerly sent.
2. You are to take notice that in all our Instructions formerly or hereafter to be sent, that of the latest date (where they at all vary from one another) is always to take place.
- 3. You are always from henceforth to fill up ye Grand Couneill from time to time, with a number of Councellors chosen by ye Parliant. equall to ye number of our Deputys.
4. You are to prepare such Bills as you shall thinke convenient for ye good of ye Plantacon, & to present them by ye Parliamt. to be passed (if ye Parliam. thinke fit) into laws. For there is noe thing to be debated or voted in ye Parlt., but wt. is proposed to them by ye Councill.
5. You are upon all occasions to afford Capt". Halsted all ye assistance you can, in ye discoverys we have ordered him to make up ye rivers or in any part of ye Country where you are planted. Signed & Sealed.
CRAVEN, ASHLEY,
G. CARTERET,
P. COLLETON.
Whitchall, 16th Dec., '71.
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The nature and scope of the various powers exercised by the Grand Council, as well as many intimations of the condition and circumstances of the colonists during the first two years of the settlement, may be gathered from the following extracts from the MS. Journals of the Council. Some account of the volume from which they are taken, together with further extracts from the same, will be found in Dalcho's Church History, and in a pamphlet published some years ago, called Topics in the IIist. of So. Ca.
[1671, August 28. (?) ]-Upon full and mature deliberation had by the Governor and Councill upon the matter of the Oath admin- istered to, and taken by the several members of the Grand Councill elected and chosen by Parliament into the same, according to the Lords Proprietors directions, which said oath followeth in these words, vizt. : You sweare that as a Councellor, and therein assisting with your best advice to the Governour of this Province of Carolina, for the time being, for and on the behalfe of the Lords Proprietors and Frecholders thereof, to the best of your skill and power you shall faithfully act and doe. You shall doe cquall right to the rich and to the poore ; you shall not give, or be of Coun- cill for favor or affection, in any difference or quarrell depending before you, but in all things demcane and behave yourselfe as to equity and justice appertaines, and your place aforesaid requires, observing from time to time, the rules and directions of the Lords Proprietors, the Laws of England, and the laws that are and shall be established in the said Province for the best avayle of the Set- tlement thereof. You shall not of yourselfe communicate the secretts or other transactions of the Governor and Councill to any person not of the Councill, without sufficient authority for the same, soc helpe you God.
Upon the hearing of the Petition, John Norton and Originall Jackson, against Mr. Manrice Mathews and others, It is ordered that the petitioner doe appeare before the Governor and Councill, upon Saturday, the ninth day of September next, peremptorily to prosecute the said Complaint against the Defendants. Capt. Florence O. Sullivan, Surveyor Generall of this Province, and John Culpeper, Surveyor, having this day come before the Governour and Councill, did then and there declare an agreement between them, the said Captaine Sullivan, and John Culpeper, as followeth, &c.
Mr. Stephen Bull, Mr. William Owen and Mr. Thomas Gray, are appointed by the Governour and Councill to prepare an answer to the Lords Proprietors, to be ready against Thursday next, being the 31st Instant.
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