Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8) / French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700

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[856] Philippi Cluverii Introductio in Universam Geographiam. Leyden, 1629. The edition of 1697 was published with notes by Hekel, Reiske, and Bunon.

[857] The same Johann Ludwig Gottfriedt published in 1655 Newe Welt vnd Amerikanische Historien. A later German geographer of America was Hans Just Winckelmann, whose Der Amerikanischen neuen Welt Beschreibung, Oldenburg, 1664, I have not seen. Nor have I seen any works of French contemporary writers, as Pierre Davity, Description générale de l’Amérique, 3^me partie du monde, avec tous ses empires, royaumes, etc., Paris, 1643, 2d edition, 1660; M. C. Chaulmer, Le Nouveau Monde, ou l’Amérique chrétienne, Paris, 1659. [The last is in Harvard College Library; but without present interest.—Ed.]

[858] A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, and of Sundry Accidents therein occurring, from the year 1607 to this present 1622.

[859] To Purchas: see 2 N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. vol. i.

[860] N. Y. Coll. Doc. iii. 17.

[861] A Description of the Province of New Albion and a Direction for Adventurers with small Stock to get two for one and good Land freely; and for Gentlemen and all Servants, Laborers, and Artificers to live plentifully, etc. Printed in the year 1648 by Beauchamp Plantagenet, of Belvil in New-Albion. [Reprinted in Force’s Tracts, vol. ii. See documents in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Pub. Fund, ii. 213; and Professor G. B. Keen’s note on Plowden’s Grant in Vol. III.—Ed.]

[862] N. Y. Col. Doc. iii. 6 et seq.

[863] [Cf. on this alleged Argal incursion, Palfrey’s New England, i. 235, and George Folsom in 2 N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., i. 332. Brodhead, i. 140, 754, doubts it.—Ed.]

[864] See the patent in Hazard, State-Papers, i. 160. Doubts have been raised whether such a grant was ever made, or if made, whether it was ever acted upon by Sir Edmund; but the statement of Van der Donck in his Vertoogh van Nieuw Nederland should dispose of such doubts forever. When Sir Edmund came to New Netherland he was poor and in debt, without friends to help him; and seeing that the Dutch had a fort and soldiers, it was quite a matter of course that he returned to Virginia, saying he would not quarrel with the Dutch.—Ed.

[865] Vol. iv. part i.