According to the belt Accounts that haVe been received 
from this Ifland of late Years, it is rather increafing, both 
in the Number of People^ and in the Value of their Set- 
tlements, than not ; as to the former, it is computed^ 
there may be about four thoufand five hundred white 
Perfons, and about twelve thoufand Negroes, in this 
Country; And as for the latter, I mean the Value of its 
Produce, we fliall have Occafion to fpeak of it hereafter. 
The Ifiand of Barhuda lies in the Latitude of 17 De- 
grees 30 Minutes North, is about fifteen Miles long, and 
lies North-eafc from the Ifland of which we were laft 
fpeaking. The Land is low and fruitful, and the En- 
glijh began to plant it as early as Nevis^ Montferrat^ or 
any other of the Leeward Ifiands, St. Chrifiopher s except- 
ed ; for Sir E'homas Wanier., who firft fettled there, 
placed a fmall Colony in this Ifiand, but the Carihbeans 
diilurbed them fo iriuch, that they were often forced to 
defert it and their Plantations. There hardly pafifed a 
Year but they made one or tv/o Incurfions, and that ge- 
nerally in the Night, for they durft not attack them by 
Day ; the Damage the Englijh fuflained by them, made 
them weary of dwelling in a Place where they were fo 
much expofed to the Fury of thofe Barbarians, who di- 
minifhing daily in number, and the Europeans encreaf- 
ing, the Englijh again poffeffed themfelves of Barbuda., 
and in a few Years there were five hundred Inhabitants. 
There are now a thoufand or twelve hundred Souls upon 
it, and their Number is daily encreafing. The Proprietor 
is the Honourable Chrijiopher Codrington, Efqi and he puts 
in a- Governor here, having the fame Prerogative as the 
other Lords Proprietors in their, feveral. Jurifdiblions in 
Atnerka. This Ifiand has bred great ftore of Cattle, 
and the Inhabitants employ themfelves moftly in that 
fort of Hufbandry •, Corn and Provifions coming almofi; 
always to a good Market in the Sugar Ifiands. There 
is plenty of all Sorts of tame Cattle, as in Europe *, and 
the Englijh live here much alter the fame Manner as they 
do in the Countries in Ejigland ; only their Labour in the 
Field is not fo hard as here, the Country being fo much 
hotter. 
The next Plantation to this, if it may be properly fo 
called, is Anguilla, or Snake Ifland, fo called from its Fi- 
gure, being a long Traci ol Earth, but narrow, winding 
almofi: about ; near St. JEIartins, from whence it may eafily 
be feen : It lies in 1 8 Degrees 1 2 Minutes. The Country 
is level and woody ; the Soil fruitful, and the Tobacco 
that grew there lormerly was reckoned very good in its 
kind. There is not a Mountain in it ; where it is broadefl; 
there is a Pond, about which the Englijh fettled in the 
Year 1650. Their Bufinefs, like the Inhabitants of 
Barhuda, was to plant Corn, and breed tame Cattle, for 
which piirpofe they brought Stock with them. They 
were poor, and continue fo to this Day, being perhaps 
the lazieft Creatures in the World. Some People have 
gone from Barbadoes, and other Englijh Caribbee Ifiands, 
thither, and there they live like the firfi: Race of Men, 
without Government or Religion, having no Minifter or 
Magiftrate. They are fiid to- make up, altogether, about 
one hundred and fifty Families, or nine hundred Souls ; 
and their Condition in that Place is fmgular enough to 
delerve particular Notice, if we had any room to fpare ; 
but as we have not, it fiiall fuffice to fay that they have 
no great Qtiantities of Sugar upon the Ifiand, but addidl 
themfelves rather to farming, in v/hich they have had very 
good Succefs ; and tins it is that enables them to live in 
the old Patriarchal Way, every Man being a kind of 
Sor^ereign in Ins own Family, and no other Government 
there is in Anguilla. 
^ Vf e have now gone through all the Leeward Ifiands, 
Antigua, or Ant ego, only excepted, of which we are to 
fpeak in the next Sehlion, as not having been fettled 
within the Period to which we have confined this. As 
to the general Produce or Value of thefe Ifiands, which 
may ferve to fhew of how great Confequence they are 
to Great Britain, the beft Account I have been able to 
obtain, is to the following Effedl : St. ChrifiopheB s is the 
larg-eft or all the Ifiands, but the middle Part of it being 
extremely mountainous, it is thought that there are not 
above twenty-four thoufand Acres of Land, fit for Sugar, 
ill the whole Ifland, Vhich produces about tell tlioiifand 
Flogiheads of that valuable Commodity. Antego contains 
about feventy thoufand Acres, and produces fixfeen tholi^ 
land Hogfiieads of Sugar yearly. Nevis is faid to be 
about twenty Miles in Circumference, and produces fix 
thoufand Hogfineads, Montferrat, which is Ids than any 
ol them, produces two thoufand five hundred, and fome- 
times three thoufand, Hogfiieads of Sugar. In Barbuda 
they breed Cattle, and in Anguilla they raife Corn. 
19. We are now, according to the Method that We 
have hitherto purfued of fpeaking of our .Plantations, 
in the Order of Time in which they were fettled, obliged 
to return to the Continent ol North America^ in order to 
give an Account of the noble Colony of Maryland, which 
remained a Part of Virginia till the Year 1632, which was 
the eiglith of King Charles I. when that Monarch was 
pleafed to grant all the Country to the North of Potozv-^ 
mack River, not then planted, unto Cecilius Calvert^ 
Lord Baltimore, of the Kingdom of Ireland, and his 
Heirs ; and this Part of the Country was alterv/ards cal- 
led Maryland, in Flonour of the then Queen Confort, 
Henrietta Maria, youngeft Daughter of the French King, 
Henry the IVth. The Lord Baltimore obtained his 
Grant, fent over his Brother, the honourable Leonard Cal- 
vert, Efq-, with fome Roman Catholic Gentlemen, and 
other Adventurers, to the Number of two hundred, to 
take Pofielfion of the Country ; who, fetting fail for En-^ 
land on the 2 2d of November 1633, arrived at Point 
Comfort in the Bay of Chefepeak, on the 24th of February 
following *, where, being kindly received and fupplied 
with Provifions by the Englijh of Virginia, they continu- 
ed their Voyage Northward, to the River Potowmack.^ 
appointed to be the Boundary between Virginia and Ma- 
ryland, on the Eaft-fide of the Bay. 
The Adventurers failed up this River, and landing on 
feveral Places of tke northern Shore, acquainted the Na- 
tives they were come to fettle amongfi: them, and trade 
with them ; but the Natives feemed rather to defire their 
Abfence than their Company : However, there were no 
Adis of Hoftllity committed on either Side and the En- 
glijh returning down the River Potowmack again, made 
choice of a Place near the Mouth of a River (which falls 
into it, and by them called St. George’s River) to fettle 
their firfi: Colony. They advanced afterwards to an Indian 
Town called Teamaco, then the Capital of the Country, 
and at a Conference with the Weorance or Sovereign of 
the Place, to whom they made confiderable Prefents, the 
Weorance confented that the Englijh fhould dwell in one 
Part of the Town, referving the other for his own Peo- 
ple, till the Harveft was over, and then agreed to quit the 
whole entirely to the Englijh, and retire farther into the 
Country, which they did accordingly. And the March fol- 
lowing Mr. Calvert and the Planters were left in the quiet 
PolfelTion of the whole Town, to which they gave the 
Name ot St. Mary’s ; and it was agreed on both Sides,' 
that if any Wrong was done by either Party, the Nation 
offending fliould make full Satisfablion for the Injury^ 
ff'he Reafons the Yoamaco Indians were fo ready to enter 
into a Treaty with the Englijh, and yield them Part of 
their Country, was in Hopes of obtaining their Pro- 
teflion and Affiftance againfi: the Safquahanah Indiajis, 
their northern Neighbours, with whom they were then at 
War *, and, indeed, the Yoamaco Indians were upon the 
Point of abandoning their Country, to avoid the Fury of 
the Safquahanah Nation, before the Englijh arrived ; from 
whence it appears that the Adventurers, fent over by the 
Lord Baltimore, cannot be charged with any Injuftice in 
fettling themfelves in this Part oi, America, being invited 
to it by the original Inhabitants. 
The Inhabitants who were thus fettled at St. Mary^s, 
applied themfelves, with great Diligence, to cultivat- 
ing the Ground, and railed large Quantities of Indian 
Corn, while the Natives went every Day into the Woods 
to hunt for Game, bringing home Venifon andTurkies, to 
the Englfo Colony, in abundance, for which they received 
Knives, Tools, and Toys, in return. And thus both 
Nations lived in the greatefl: Friendfiiip, doing good 
Offices to each other ; till fome of the Englijh in Virginia, 
envious of the Happinefs of this thriving Colony, fug- 
