The Puritan Colonists


or Sayle's Island, near which there is Goldinge's Island. Here
they set up their own church, but the whole venture was a
failure. The name Nassau is not one originally given to this
spot by the Lord Proprietors. They merely used the name of
the Dutch West India Company's old fort in preference to
the Puritan name Charlestown because they were partly tres-
passing on the remains of a Puritan settlement which still
had local claimants. The eleventh edition of the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica says that the town of St. George, Bermuda,
was founded in 1794, but in the "Historie of the Somers
Islands" by Captain Daniel Tucker, 1620, the "towne of St.
George" is mentioned several times.
 At the entrance of Little Abaco Island we still have the
names Ambergris Caye, Powell's Caye and Channel, Carter's
Caye and Bank, whilst there is Moore's Island west of Great
Abaco and Powell's Point southwest of Eleuthera. This shows
that before the Providence grant was made to the Earl of
Warwick on December 4, 1630 Governors Richard Moore
and Andrew Carter of the Somers Isles, Captain Powell of
the Courteen Syndicate, and Captain Daniel Elfrith had ran-
sacked the Bahamas for ambergris. The names Carter and
Powell on Bahama maps are Puritan and not derived from
the pirate Carter and Governor Powell both of whom came
a century later. When in 1670 the Bahamas were granted by
Charles II to the Duke of Albemarle the Puritan tobacco and
silk grass plantations in that area were already abandoned as
they were on the Cockscomb Coast. Andros Island in the
Bahamas got its name at the close of the 17th century from
Sir Edmund Andros, governor of Massachusetts, who was in-
terested in the Bahamas and the Cockscomb Coast. Sir Ed-
wyn Sandys, or Sands, of Bermuda and treasurer of the Vir-
ginia Company, also left his name at Sandys or Sands Point.
Captains Powell and Elfrith with their Dutch colleagues
ranged the whole eastern coast of tropical America. This
friendship was formed in the Amazon where between 1615
and 1625 they often visited the Dutch trading posts, forts,