We acknowledge ourselves accomptable for our time here spent were it but to give you satisfaction of our industries and affections to this most Honourable action, and the better to quicken those good spirits which have alreadie bestowed themselves here, and to put life into such dead understandings or beleefs that must first see and feel the womb of our labour and this land before they will entertain any good hope of us or of the land.

Within less than seven weeks, we are fortified well against the Indians. We have sown good store of wheat -- we have sent you a taste of Clapboard -- we have built some houses -- we have spared some hands to a discovery, and still as God shall enhable us with strength we will better and better our proceedings. . . .

This land would flow with milk and honey if so seconded by your carefull wisdomes and bountifull hands, wee doe not perswade to shoot one Arrow to seek another but to find them both. And we doubt not but to send them home with goulden heads, at least our desires, labours and lives shall to that engage themselves.

We are set down 80 miles within a River, for breadth, sweetness of water, length navigable up into the country, deep and bold channel so stored with sturgion and other sweet fish as no man's fortune hath ever possessed the like. . . . The soil is most fruitfull, laden with good Oake, Ashe. . . .

We entreat your succours for our seconds with all expedition least that all devouring Spaniard lay his ravenous hands upon those gold showing mountains, which if we be so enabled he shall never dare to think on. -- This note doth make known where our necessities do most strike us, we beseech your present relief accordingly, otherwise to our greatest and last griefes, we shall against our wills not will that which we most willingly would.