SOURCE: Susan M. Kingsbury (ed.), The Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. III (Washington, 1933): 'Instructions orders and constitutions ... to Sir Thomas Gates' (May 1609), pp. 12-24; extract of items 15-16 (p. 17). OCR from https://archive.org/download/recordsofvirgini03virg/recordsofvirgini03virg_djvu.txt (fetched 2026-09-14). OCR errors uncorrected. if you be pvided of victuall you may dispute possession till a straunger be wearied and starved. The faiies of the 14 Aboue the ouer falles of the Kinges Riuer it is likely you shall finde Kings river some Convenient place to this purpose whither no enemy with ease can approache nor with ordinance at all but by land w% at howe greate dis- advauntage he shall seeke when [he] must discouer and fight at once vppon straightes in woodes at foordes and places of all inconveniency, is easy to be considered, besides you shaU haue the comodity of the braunche of the Riuer to bringe downe your pvisions from within the land in chechehounnakCanooes and smalle boates in the Riuer of of Chechehounnack [or Cheche- "^s"" hommack], neere vnto you and not farre of another navagable outlett Pamaouke river into the sea by the Riuer of Pamaouke: MAY, 1609 17 15 Foure dayes Journey from yo' forte Southewards is a towne called Ohonahoen, chief Chonahopft Ohonahorn seated where the Riuer of Choanocki devideth •'^'''^*^ it self into three braunches and falleth into the sea of Rawnocke in thirtieRaw^wTke"''^'^ fine degrees this place if you seeke by Indian guides from James forte to Winocke Winocke by water, from thence to Manqueocke, some twenty miles from cilihe^r'''^^ thence to Caththega, as much and from thence to Oconahoen you shall Oconahoen finde a braue and [181] fruiteful seate euery way vnaccessable by a straunger enemy, much more abundant in Pochon and in the grasse silke Pochon called Cour del Cherva and in vmes, then any pte of this land knowne '^"''*' s''''-'° ^'""^ vnto vs Here we suppose, if you make yo' principall and cheife seate, you shall doe most safely and Richely because you are in the part of §the§ land inclined to the southe, and two of the best riuers will supply you, besides you are neere to Riche Copper mines of Ritanoc and may R°t'Inor'"°^ passe them by one braunche of this Riuer, and by another Peccarecamicke Peccarecamicke where you shall finde foure of the englishe aliue, left by S' Walter Rawely w^h escaped from the slaughter of Powhaton of Roanocke, vppon the Po'^''i^ton first arrivall of our Colonie, and Hue vnder the proteccon of a wiroane "'^""'^'"^ called Gepanocon enemy to Powhaton, by whose consent you shall neuer Gepanocon a wi- recouer them, one of these were worth much labour, and if you finde ™^"^ them not, yet seach into this Countrey it is more pbable then towards the north. 16 These three habitacons seeme enoughe for the nomb of the people Three places of nowe transported, ouer euery one of w^h you must trans appointe a dis- Churche creete Comaunder that shall sett yo'' men to seuerall workes accordinge to their vndertakings in the bookes by w^h they were receaued in euery one of these there must be builte a Church and a storehowse and a pte of ^/^"