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756. (a) Account of Stores left in the Fort of St. Johns,
Newfoundland, by Capt. Taylor, H.M.S. Litchfield, also at Carbonear, Harbour Grace, and Little Bell Islands, and the Isle of
Boys. Signed, Jos. Taylor. 2½ pp. |
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(b) List of the Officers in Newfoundland, commissioned Oct.
1709. St. Johns:—John Collin, Governor; Edward Sheppard,
Lt. Governor; John Jenkins, Major; William Roberts, Gilbert
Jeane, John Marshall, John Cock, John Eleat, Wm. Bowles, Rd.
Tapley, Captains; Tho. Squarry, Jono. Martin, Henry Parker,
James Prosser, Tho. Roberts, Samuel Nicks, Giles Goss, John
Julian, Rt. Bowles, Step. Dann, Lieutenants; Daniel Ranes, Rt.
Willicot, Char. Coaker, Jos. Newham, Tho. Hawkins, John Martin, Rowland Martin, Rd. Boden, John Richardson, Abr. Barrott,
Ensigns; Isaac Legoss, Surgeon; Wm. Squarry, Master Gunner.
Ferryland and Isle of Boys:—Oliver Lang, Governor; John
Tucker, Lt. Governor; Rd. Roberts, Hen. Rex, Lieuts.; Tho.
Deble, Arthur White, Ensigns. Carbonear:—Wm. Pynn, Governor; Tho. Williams, Tho. Peck, Capts.; Wm. Pynn, jr., Peter
Merkin, Wm. Reeves, Lieuts. Harbour Grace Island:—Hen.
Edwards, Governor; Rt. Pynn, Jona. Webber, Capts.; Wm.
Parsons, Wm. Burt, Edwd. Stephens, Lieuts. Little Bell Isle:—James Butler, Governor; Geo. Garland, Jno. Snow, Capts.; John
Butler, jr., John Fancy, Wm. Thacker, Lieuts. Signed, Jos.
Taylor. 2 pp. [C.O. 194, 22. No. 73.] |
Oct. 4.
Whitehall. |
757. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Board of
Ordnance. Reply to Sept. 24th. At present there is no demand of stores from any of the Plantations before us; but so
soon as any shall be made, we will immediately lay the same
before H.M. [C.O. 324, 9. p. 407.] |
Oct. 4.
Whitehall. |
758. W. Popple to Sir Robert Cotton. Requests his attendance at the Board to discuss the settlement of Palatines on Lynch
Island, Jamaica, belonging to his grandson, Mr. Cotton. Cf.
Oct. 7. [C.O. 138, 12. pp. 454, 455.] |
Oct. 5.
Whitehall. |
759. The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Popple. There being
several references of moment from H.M. before the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, which require dispatch,
and H.M. being informed that the same cannot be done for want
of a quorum of the Council of Trade in Town; you are to summon
the absent Commissioners immediately to town, that the service
may not suffer any longer by their absence. Signed, Sunderland.
Endorsed, Recd. Oct. 6, 1709. 1 p. [C.O. 388, 76. No. 85;
and 389, 36. pp. 443, 444.] |
Oct. 5.
Whitehall. |
760. Mr. Popple to Col. Blakiston. The Council of Trade
and Plantations think it proper for you as Agent for Virginia
to deliver the Order of Council, (Sept. 26) to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina and procure a duplicate to be transmitted to
the Government of Virginia. [C.O. 5, 1362. pp. 421, 422.] |
Oct. 5.
Whitehall. |
761. The Earl of Sunderland to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Mr. Marquez, Commissary of the Purveyors of the
King of Portugal's Forces, having directions from them to
purchase quantitys of wheat, rye, barley and oats for the service of those forces, he has thoughts of getting some wheat
and flower from New England, New York and Pensilvania, but
exportations of this kind being altogether new and unusual in
those places, he apprehends the same will meet with difficultys
and oppositions, for preventing of which he desires the Queen
would write to the Governors of those Colonys to give such
assistance as may be desired by Nicholas Roberts or his Agents
for the exportation of all such quantitys of corn and flower as
the Country can conveniently spare without prejudice to themselves or danger of occasioning a scarcity there, at such prices
as they shall be commonly sold for at the time of making
such purchase or as the Governors shall appoint between the
Factor's Agents and the Inhabitants of the respective Colonys,
and to cause the names of the ships and quantitys of the corn
and flower which shall be exported by the said Roberts or his
Agents to be registred. Her Majesty is enclined to consent to
anything he can reasonably ask towards enabling him to comply
with the orders he has received from Portugal, but desires to
have your opinion whether this request can be granted without
inconvenience to H.M. service or to those Plantations. Signed,
Sunderland. Endorsed, Recd. Read Oct. 6, 1709. 1½ pp. [C.O.
323, 6. No. 87; and 324, 9. p. 408.] |
Oct. 7.
Whitehall. |
762. W. Popple to Sir Robert Cotton. The Council of Trade
and Plantations having, by H.M. direction, under consideration the settling of some Palatines on the Island of Jamaica,
and their Lordships being inform'd that Mr. Cotton, your son,
is Proprietor of Lynch Island, which is thought a proper place
for the present reception of the said Palatines, they have therefore commanded me to make the following proposal, which they
desire you will please to transmit to your son for his answer,
viz. That about 1000 of the above Palatines be transported at
H.M charge to Lynch Island, there to continue till they can be
settled on the Island of Jamaica. That the Harbour of St.
Antonio be made a port of entry. That Lynch Island be cleared,
and huts built thereon for the reception of the said Palatines,
without any charge to the Proprietor. It is presumed the clearing of Lynch Island will be a considerable improvement to
Mr. Cotton's estate on that Island, and elsewhere in Jamaica,
whereas at present no benefit accrues to him from the said
Island. In consideration whereof, it is proposed that the said
Palatines have the use of so much of Lynch Island as shall
be necessary till their settlements can be perfected on the
Island of Jamaica, and that Mr. Cotton do surrender to H.M.
use in fee about 30 acres, part of the said Lynch Island for
settling such of the said Palatines as shall be thought fit to
continue there, and for building a small Fort for the security
of the Harbour of St. Antonio; whereby he will not only contribute to the promoting so good a work as the settling those
poor people, but in all likelyhood very much improve his particular property. [C.O. 138, 12. pp. 455–457.] |
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763. Messrs. Whitchurch and Jones to the Council of Trade
and Plantations. Proposal and estimate for settling 1000 Palatines at Jamaica. Endorsed, Recd. 7th, Read 10th Oct., 1709.
3½ pp. [C.O. 137, 8. No. 55; and 138, 12. pp. 457–465.] |
Oct. 8.
Windsor. |
764. The Queen to Governor Crowe. Refers to Order of
Jan. 22 last, and Representation of Council of Trade upon further
complaints against him. You are forthwith to repair to our
presence to make your defence before us in Council, and the
complainants are to be at liberty to take such proofs and depositions upon oath before such chief magistrate as they shall
think fit, etc. Countersigned, Sunderland. Endorsed, Recd.
22nd, Read 25th Oct. 1709. 5 pp. [C.O. 5, 210. pp. 179–182;
and 28, 12. No. 39; and 29, 12. pp. 23–27.] |
Oct. 8.
Virginia. |
765. Col. Jenings to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Refers to letter of June 13th, sent by a running ship. This by
the return of the Fleet, etc. According to what your Lordps.
were pleased to intimate, I have with the advice of the Council
given directions to the Surveyors of the Countys bordering on
Carolina to prepare an estimate of the charge of laying out the
boundarys of that Province, and hope in a very short time I
shal be able to give your Lordps. a satisfactory account both
of the method and charge of that work. Refers to enclosures
"relating to the interruption given our Indian Traders by the
Government of Carolina. Your Lordps. will observe that the
pretence for seizing the skins, furs and other effects of our
traders is grounded on the Act of the 15th of King Charles II.,
but it is not alledged that our traders either were within the
inhabited bounds of Carolina, or that there were any officers
for putting that Act in execution within 200 miles of the
place where they traded: so that whether that Act obliged
our traders to look for Custom house Officers where there was
not ar English inhabitant, or to go 200 miles to Charles Town
to ask the Governor of Carolina leave to trade with people altogether independent on him or his Province is humbly submitted
to your Lordps.' consideration. Perhaps it may be urged that
the traders ought to have carryed certificates from hence that
there goods were legally imported here; but as they had never
before seen nor heard of anybody to exact such certificates, your
Lordps. will not think it strange that they judged them unnecessary. But I dare affirm to your Lordps. that our traders carry no
goods, but what are legally imported according to the Acts of
Trade, being generally purchased here of the most substantial
and fair traders in the country, who have them imported directly
from London. Your Lordps. will observe that it was not the
European goods, but the skins and furrs purchased of the
Indians that were seized, wch. kind of commodity I humbly
conceive is not seizable by any construction of that Act of
Parliament. So that I doubt not yr. Lordps. will plainly perceive it was the private interest of engrossing that trade, more
than any regard to the Law that inclined the Government of
Carolina to this unusual treatment of our traders. H.M. additional Instruction concerning the granting of land, I have
communicated to the Council, but upon considering the difficulty of the seating required therein, they are humbly of opinion
that no man will take up any land upon those terms while there
is land to be had on easier terms in the neighbouring Governments, and beg leave to repeat the reasons for not altering
the ancient condition of grants laid before yr. Lordships Oct.
19 last (v. Journal of Council of Virginia), in which they are
more and more confirmed by observing how many entire familys
besides great numbers of single persons have removed this last
summer and are daily removing into the Province of North
Carolina, where H.M. will receive no benefite either by the
Quitt rent or the produce of their labour." Enclose Council
Journal June 4, 1708—Sept. 12, 1709. I confidently hop'd I
should have been able by this conveyance to have sent your
Lordps. the accounts of H.M. Revenue, but the sickness of some
of the Collectors having hindered them from reforming some
errors in their accots., hath disappointed the settling the general
accompts of the Revenue. But as the Auditor and Receiver
General have assured me they will have every thing in a readiness against the General Court for perfecting those accounts,
I hope the first opportunity thereafter to transmitt them to yor.
Lordps. According as I wrote June 13, as soon as the Guardship
arrived, I discharged the briganteen employed for the defence
of the Countrey, and have caused the men to be paid off; but
there being some accots. for transporting and mounting the
alarm guns on the shoar of the Bay not yet come to hand
(and wch. are proper to be put with the charge of the briganteen) the accots. of that whole expence are not yet fully settled,
so as to be laid before yor. Lordps., but I believe the whole
charge will not exceed 800 and odd pounds, the particulars
whereof I hope by the first opportunity to send yr. Lordps.
The Captain of the Guard ship has been very dilligent in cruising ever since his arrival, but the ship being of too great bulk
to pursue the privateer sloops among the flatts, he has not
been able to come up with those he has seen, yet seems fully
perswaded, that if together with this ship, he had the sloop
wch. my Lord High Admiral hath ordered to be bought for this
station, no privateer on this coast could escape him. Among
the Proclamations wch. I herewith send yr. Lordps., there
is one prohibiting the exportation of corne, the long and unusual dry weather for almost the whole past summer having
burnt up the corn in many places of the country, and the apprehensions of a great scarcety of all sorts of grain to follow
thereon hath occasioned this prohibition, but I hope it has been
laid so seasonably that there will still be enough left in the
country for the subsistance of the inhabitants till a new cropp. |
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The Fleet now bound out hath almost drain'd the country of
all the old tobacco, wch. would have been of great benefite,
if the present cropp had not proved very small, and far short
of what might have been expected from more seasonable weather,
and I'm afraid the next Fleet will meet with a disappointment
if there comes as many ships as heretofore. The Country enjoys
a perfect peace and quiet, etc. Signed, E. Jenings. Endorsed,
Recd. Dec. 20, 1709, Read Jan. 3, 170 9/10;, 4½ pp. Enclosed, |
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765. i. Correspondence between Col. Jenings and Governor Sir
N. Johnson relating to the seizure of goods of Virginian
Indian Traders, etc. April 22, July 22, Nov. 2, 1708.
With depositions of Robert Hix, David Crawley, James
Lundy, Nathaniel Urven as to same. Copies. 7½ pp. |
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765. ii. Proclamations by Col. Jenings. (1) June 22, 1708,
declaring the repeal of the Revenue Act (Jan. 25, 1708).
(2) July 30, 1708, receiving the Nations of the Saponies
into the Protection of this Government, and peaceably
to possess and enjoy the land where they are now
seated, until further provision be made for them; (3)
Oct. 26, 1708, confirming the Act about hhds. (4)
Oct. 26, 1708, prohibiting trade with the Tuscaruro,
Nottaway, Maherine or any other Indians living S. of
James River; (5) Feb. 10, 1709, publishing Acts about
Coin and Trade to America. (6) April 15, 1709, appointing a General Fast, May 18, for intercession on account of "the dangerous pestilential distemper which has
already swept away great numbers of the inhabitants
of the Eastern Shore and is now lately spread and continues to rage in some parts of the Western Shore, to
the great terror and consternation of all"; (7) April
15, 1709, to encourage seamen to serve on board the
Seaflower; (8) to prevent seamen deserting Jan. 21,
1709; and (9) for preventing export of corn, Sept. 12,
1709. Copies. 7 pp. [C.O. 5, 1316. Nos. 41, 41. i.,
ii.; and (without enclosures) 5, 1363. pp. 27–35.] |
Oct 8.
Lyme Street. |
766. R. Tryon to Mr. Popple. Reply concerning Oct 5.
q.v. Barbados, ye Leward Islands and Jamaica haveing their
sole dependance for beef from our Colonys in America, ye price
of grain here and in Ireland being likely to deprive them of
ye litle they have usually had from hence, and it can'te be
sopos'd they should have notice, time enough, to provide for
such a disapointmt. by planting more then usuall quantitys of
Indian provisions (if they had ground to spare, which is not
ye case of Barbados, that has most mouths), so it's fit to be
consider'd, whether under ye incouridgmt. propos'd, those Colonys
may not be so drain'd as will disable them from afordeing any
suplys to ye Suger Islands, ye concequences of which I need
not tell you. Signed, Rowld. Tryon. Endorsed, Recd. 8th,
Read Oct. 10th, 1709. 2 pp. [C.O. 323, 6. No. 88; and
324, 9. p. 409.] |
Oct. 9.
New York. |
767. Samuel Bayard to Mr. Rayner. Col. Wenham is dead,
etc. Endorsed, Extract, Recd. from Mr. Rayner, Read Dec. 23,
1709. ¾ p. [C.O. 5, 1049. No. 145.] |
| Oct. 10. |
768. Practisers of the Law in the Province of New York to
the Council of Trade and Plantations. Petition against recent
Act of New York for regulating fees. The Act was badly drawn
by the Assembly and hastily passed by the Lt. Governor and
Council, who declared their dislike of it. It obliges lawyers to
accept any cause, if not retained before, at a retaining fee not
exceeding 6s., and in no cause to have above £5 from first to last,
though the value of money there is ⅓rd worse than sterl. and
all merchandize 2/3rd dearer than here, etc. Cf. Nov. 29. Signed
Jno. Rayner. Endorsed, Recd. 10th, Read 25th Oct., 1709.
2 pp. [C.O. 5, 1049. No. 129.] |
| [? Oct. 10.] |
769. Memo. [by Mr. Rayner?] There was an Act of Assembly in my Lord Cornbury's time, where it is enacted that no
fees shall be taken by severall officers therein named, but what
shall be settled by Act of Assembly, etc., so that Act must be
disapproved as well as ye last, or they can take no fees at all.
No signature or endorsement. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 1049. No. 128.] |
Oct. 12.
Comberma.e. |
770. Thomas Cotton to Sir Robert Cotton. I received yours
of Oct. 8 with proposalls from the Council of Trade and Plantations to settle some poore Palatines in Jamaica, and in ye
meantime to have them transported to Lynch Island, which
belongs to me in right of my wife, heir to her father, Sir
Thomas Lynch, deceased. I am willing to surrender for H.M.
use in fee about 30 acres, part of the said Lynch Island, as is
therein required for the promoting so good a work etc. Wee
designe to give the remainder of this Island and Lynch Vale
Plantation to our youngest son of that name, for his future
benefitt and inheritance, but have made no settlement as yett,
hopeing ye Government will be kind to him. If farther be
needfull wee leave you a discressionary power to act for us.
Signed, Thomas Cotton. Endorsed, Recd. Read Oct. 17, 1709.
1 p. [C.O. 137, 8. No. 56; and 138, 12. pp. 465, 466.] |
Oct. 12.
Whitehall. |
771. Council of Trade and Plantations to Edmund Jenings,
President of the Council of Virginia. Acknowledge letter of June
13, refer to proceedings relating to complaints against S. Carolina seizing Virginian goods, and enclose Order. v. Sept. 6 and
26. Enclose H.M. letters mandatory for the appointment of
boundary Commissioners, etc. Col. Hunter is now appointed
Governor of New York. We do not hear of any named yet for
the Government of Virginia. Enclosure to be forwarded to
Col. Quary. [C.O. 5, 1362. pp. 425-427.] |
Oct. 17.
London. |
772. Josiah Thoms' receipt for letter to Mr. Jenings. (Oct.
12). [C.O. 5, 1362. p. 427.] |
