CCLXVIII. Governor of Virginia. A Commission to Captain Isack
Maddison and Robert Bennet
November 12, 1622
Manuscript Records Virginia Company, III, Part ii, Page 39a
Document in Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
List of Records No. 374
By the Governor and Capt generall of Virginia
To all Christian people to whom these p̢sentℯ shall come greetinge. Know
yee that I Sr Francis Wyatt kt Governor and Capt generall of Virginia:
haveing at all times sought and endevored, to relieue this p̢sent necessitie
of this our Colony wth Corne, do now vppon the said consideration, graunt
and by these presentℯ giue leaue power and authoritie vnto Capt Isack
Maddison, and Robert Benet maister of the good Shipp called the Samuell
of the burthen of 30 Tunℯ or thereaboutℯ, now ridinge before James towne
in Virginia to sett saile wth the first wynd and opportunity into the Bay
or wthout the Bay, at theire discretion, and to go into any Riuers Creekℯ
or harbors to vs app̱teininge there to trade wth the Salvages for Corne, or
any other comodities they can afford them: And it is further graunted
that if so be the said Salvages shall deny them trade or giue them iust
occac̃on otherwise, that then it shalbe lawfull for the aforenamed Capt
Isack Maddison and mr Robert Benett by force and any other meanes
they can devise, to take from them theire Corne, or any other goodℯ of
theires, they can posesse themselues of; keping and enioyinge the said
Corne & goodℯ to the vse of the Marchantℯ at whose charge they are sett
forth: And whereas the Company that Man the said Pinace, do consist
as well of Landmen as of Saylors, I do by these p̢sentℯ nominate & apoint
Capt Isack Maddison, absolute and sole Comander of those landmen,
givinge him power and authoritie, to punish all such of those, as shalbe
any way delinquents for the good of the vioage, wth such punishmt as
agreeth wth the custome of the Sea (life only exepted) And further
institutinge and apointinge the said Capt Isack Maddison to be sole and
only Trucke Maister in the Vioage, forbiddinge & prohibitinge all other
wthout his leaue to trade at all. In wittnes whereof I haue herevnto sett
my hand, and Seale of the Colony the 12th day of November, in the Raigne
of o
r Soveraigne Lord James by the grace of God of England Frannce &
Ireland king Defendo
r of the faith &c the 20
th. And of Scotland the
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th. Anno Dm̃
1622
