These Lands Are As Rich As Those
Over The Alleghany; The People Of New Garden Are Situated At The
Distance Of Between 200 And 300 Miles From Cape Fear; Cape Fear Is
At Least 450 From Nantucket:
You may judge therefore that they have
but little correspondence with this their little metropolis, except
it is by means of the itinerant Friends.
Others have settled on the
famous river Kennebeck, in that territory of the province of
Massachusetts, which is known by the name of Sagadahock. Here they
have softened the labours of clearing the heaviest timbered land in
America, by means of several branches of trade which their fair
river, and proximity to the sea affords them. Instead of entirely
consuming their timber, as we are obliged to do, some parts of it
are converted into useful articles for exportation, such as staves,
scantlings, boards, hoops, poles, etc. For that purpose they keep a
correspondence with their native island, and I know many of the
principal inhabitants of Sherburn, who, though merchants, and living
at Nantucket, yet possess valuable farms on that river; from whence
they draw great part of their subsistence, meat, grain, fire-wood,
etc. The title of these lands is vested in the ancient Plymouth
Company, under the powers of which the Massachusetts was settled;
and that company which resides in Boston, are still the granters of
all the vacant lands within their limits.
Although this part of the province is so fruitful, and so happily
situated, yet it has been singularly overlooked and neglected:
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