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From: Lloyd Rowsell <>
Subject: 1597-1610 Newfoundland & Cape Breton Surnames
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:44:42 -0700 (PDT)


1597-1610 Newfoundland Surnames:

BENNET (BENOIT)
BISHOP
CROFTON
LEIGH (LEE)
NEWBERIE (NEWBURY)
SAYER

Place Names:

Bay of ASSUMPTION (Conception Bay)
Cape BRETON
CAPELIN BAY
FERRYLAND (FARRILON)
RAMEA

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Documents relating to Ferryland: 1597 to 1726

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1597; Richard Hakluyt
extract from "The voyage of Master Charles Leigh, and divers
others to Cape Breton and the Isle of Ramea"

Published in Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations of the
English Nation (London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1600).
Reprinted in Richard Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. 6 (New York: Dutton,
1907) 100-114, see 101. Revised by P.E. Pope.

Subjects: cod, fisheries, ships, boats.


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The voyage of Master Charles Leigh, and divers others to Cape
Breton and the Isle of Ramea [Magdalen Islands].

The HOPEWELL of London of the burthen of 120 tons, whereof was
master William Crofton, and the CHANCEWELL of London, of the
burthen of 70 tons, whereof was master Steven Bennet, bound unto
the River of Canada [the St. Lawrence River], set to sea at the
sole and proper charge of Charles Leigh and Abraham van Herwick of
London, merchants (the said Charles Leigh himself and Steven van
Herwick, brother to the said Abraham, going themselves in the said
ships as chief commanders of the voyage), departed from Gravesend
on Friday morning the 8 of April, 1597. And, after some
hindrances, arriving at Falmouth in Cornwall the 28 of the said
month, put to sea again. And, with prosperous winds, the 18 of May
we were upon the bank of Newfoundland. The 19 [May], we lost the
CHANCEWELL. The 20 [May] we had sight of land and entered within
the Bay of Assumption [Conception Bay], where our men, contrary to
my knowledge, fought with a French ship. And afterward, in the
same bay, we met with our consort. Whereupon we presently put to
sea again and the next day we arrived at Caplin Bay, where we
remained by extremity of foul weather and to mend a pinnace [boat]
of 7 or 8 tons (which was given us at Farrillon [Ferryland] by
Master William Sayer of Dartmouth, the admiral of that place
[first-arriving migratory fishing master]) until the last of May.
On which day, departing from thence in the afternoon, we put in to
Renews to seek shallops [boats] but could find none. The first of
June we set sail from Renews and the second we put room to a bay
under the Northside of Cape Race, being enforced in by an extreme
storm. The 4 [June] we set sail, and this day we saw a great
island of ice [iceberg]. The 5 [June] at night we lost the
CHANCEWELL in a fog, at the mouth of the Bay of Placentia
[Placentia Bay]. The 11 [June], at sun setting, we had sight of
Cape Breton....







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