BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH COLONIZATION 6 1 



south of Aquafort, on the east coast, and running due west 



to Placentia Bay, called it South Falkland, appointed a 



London agent named Wellsted to collect recruits, and either 



directed R. Whitbourne to convey them thither, or else took 



over some of Vaughan's and Whitbourne's emigrants, who 



were already there. 1 He also bought from Guy the promon- (4.) and in 



tory between Bonavista Bay and Trinity Bay, and named it g" uty 



North Falkland. He did not visit his purchases, but a book 



advocating colonization in Newfoundland was published for 



him in Dublin and appealed to Irishmen (1623), and he sent 



out some colonists, of whom R. Hayman sang, ' I joyed when 



you sent people to that land, I grieved when I saw all that 



great charge lost,' if this could be called singing. North 



Falkland, the fourth colonial division, was colonized, if at all, 



by residents in South Falkland. 



Fifthly, George Calvert Lord Baltimore who, like Peck- (5) Lord ^ 

 ham, Arundel, and probably Lord Northampton, was a su i,.f"^ny 

 Roman Catholic bought a block of land, bounded by South at Ferry- 

 Falkland on the south, and on the north by a line drawn from iy y } me 

 the middle of Petty Harbour to Salmon Cove (Conception himself, 

 Bay), and thence due west to Placentia Bay, 2 and named his ffilll'&c., 

 province Avalon, after Avalon in Somersetshire. In 1621 a 1621; 

 Welshman, Captain E. Wynne, arrived as resident Governor 

 (1621-5) an d made Ferryland his capital. Before Christmas 

 a spacious house of timber with some stonework like Guy's 

 house was built within a quoit's throw from the shore. A 

 forge, salt-work, wharf, brewhouse, and enclosed paddock or 

 garden for ' wheat, barley, oats, pease, and beans ', were soon 

 added. Next spring Captain Powell arrived with supplies 

 and more settlers some of whom were probably parish 

 orphans, for in August he wrote home asking that no more 

 'boys nor girls nor any other persons not brought up to 



1 State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1600, Nov. 10, 1626. Whit- 

 bourne writes as though he served Falkland, and never served Vaughan. 



2 The patent of Apr. 7, 1623, is in Sloane MSS. 170. There was an 

 earlier patent in 1622. 



