[744] These facts are stated in letters from Yong to Sir Tobie Matthew, referred to in the chapter on Maryland, which also contains a fac-simile of the signature of Thomas Yong.
[745] Direction for Adventurers, and true description of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest Plantation of New Albion, in North Virginia, in a letter from Mayster Robert Eveline, that lived there many years. Small 4º. (“Liber rarissimus,” Allibone.) It was reprinted in chapter iii. of Plantagenet’s Description of New Albion, hereafter mentioned.
[746] So Beauchamp Plantagenet.
[747] Before the Committee of Trade. See Samuel Hazard’s Annals of Pennsylvania, p. 109.
[748] With regard to whom see Vol. IV., chapter on “New Sweden.”
[749] Hazard’s Annals, pp. 109, 110, citing “Albany Records,” iii. 224.
[750] “Sir Edmund Plowden,” by the Rev. Edward D. Neill, Pennsylvania Magazine of History, v. 206 et seq., citing “Manuscript records of Maryland, at Annapolis.”
[751] Printed at the end of Kolonien Nya Sveriges Grundläggning, 1637-1642, af C. T. Odhner (Stockholm, 1876), referred to in Vol. IV., chapter on “New Sweden.” The “former communications” spoken of in it cannot be found, although they have been diligently sought for, on behalf of the writer, in Sweden.
[752] Accomack and Kecoughtan (as it is usually spelled by English writers), the present Hampton. The diverse orthography of the text conforms to the original. The places are noted on contemporary maps.
[753] Cited in Vol. IV., chapter on “New Sweden.” John Romeyn Brodhead, in his History of the State of New York, i. 381, 484, mentions Plowden’s visits to Manhattan as occurring in 1643 and 1648.