British settlers, who in 1630 founded the first European colony at Marshall's Creek along the Suriname River, spelled the name as "''Surinam''"; this would long remain the standard spelling in English. The Dutch navigator David Pietersz. de Vries wrote of traveling up the "''Sername''" river in 1634 until he encountered the English colony there; the terminal vowel remained in future Dutch spellings and pronunciations. In 1640, a Spanish manuscript entitled "General Description of All His Majesty's Dominions in America" called the river "''Soronama''". In 1653, instructions given to a British fleet sailing to meet Lord Willoughby in Barbados, which at the time was the seat of English colonial government in the region, again spelled the name of the colony "''Surinam''". A 1663 royal charter said the region around the river was "called Serrinam also Surrinam".