To the right honorable Companye of Adventurers, of the cittye of Westminster for the island of Providence : yo[u]r humble servant wisheth all health and prosperitie in this life, & everlastinge happiness in the life to come, [ca. 1631].

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To the right honorable Companye of Adventurers, of the cittye of Westminster for the island of Providence : yo[u]r humble servant wisheth all health and prosperitie in this life, & everlastinge happiness in the life to come, [ca. 1631].

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Guide, ca. 1631, submitted by Ellffryth to the Providence Company, containing instructions for navigation around the coasts and islands of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico; descriptions of the islands off the Mosquito Coast; and a plea that Ellffryth be allowed by the company to continue his investigations of the Nicaragua coastline.

1 v. (37 leaves) ; 20 cm.

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Ellffryth, Daniell, fl. 1608-1640.

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Adventurer, sea captain, Bermuda and Mosquito Coast colonist. An adventurer in the Caribbean from 1607 to 1621, Daniell Ellffryth obtained the support of Robert Rich, later the Earl of Warwick, for whom he operated the privateer, "Treasurer." Ellffryth settled on Bermuda in 1621, where with Philip Bell, another Warwick partisan, he laid plans to settle Providence and St. Andrews, islands Ellffryth had discovered off the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua in the Spanish Caribbea...