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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to settle an estate for them also of the Carolina with 70 or 80 persons with Capt. Godfrey, Capt. Thomson, Mr. Gray, … as convenient, the greatest distance that any person or family is seated is within less than two miles either up … Providence, where they got transportation to Bermudas; but Barrowe and his wife went to a place called New York. Russell …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… devolve to the Crown without any diminution, concealment, or embezzlement of all criminals impeached, convicted, … and Terminer, both at the trial and condemnation of seven or eight of the most notorious criminals, and openly advised … pretence enough to frustrate and stifle this proclamation or suspend the punishment of it, so long as Lawrence, a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be excused owing to the illness of the Speaker for a day or two, and representing that only one point in the matter of … that we do not much regard whether they come in or stay out. We leave it to your judgement whether you write … that the rangers at frontier of Potomac may be called in, or that they may be so stationed as to strengthen the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that I realy dread a reall attempt, for neither our horse or foot know any discipline, and composed of such ignorant … most in, are soe ill mounted that upon every charge or wheel it's impossible to keep ym. in any order. I have … little hopes of any great advances for the publick good or safety, and the country's credit is sunk to that degree …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… gallons rum, and 2,500 lb. fish for her voyage to England, or such other provisions (not exceeding the cost of the … for his crime, so that he may be enlarged from prison, or permitted to transport himself, having never before been … bound themselves not to raise money for fortifications or any public uses, his Excellency, considering it necessary …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to Colonel Joseph West, one of the Landgraves of Carolina (or to the Governor for the time being), Andrew Perceval, … John Smith, Jonathan Fitz, and John Boone, appointing them or any three of them to take cognisance of an determine any … that live within 200 miles of the territory be made slaves or sent out of the country without special orders. (3) To …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Barrow publicly declared that he knew he could have no law or justice in the Island. He now denied the jurisdiction of … Mr. Secretary Harley H.M. Royall Commands to cause a grant or grants to be passed under the Seale of the Province of New … judges whether the Queen's commands shall be obeyed or not, and this was all that was offered on that side, this …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for assistance and grant of a Charter of Incorporation, or else that the islands may be taken under the protection of … the Genll. Assembly assuming to themselves any new or unusuall privilidges so it shall bee my care to prevent … any innovations either on the prerogative of the Crown, or the antient usage of that body. Since the merchants who …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Ashley, with the master of the sloop, his mate and six or seven men, one woman and a girl, were encouraged to go … Majesty's subjects, nor will they allow any piracy or any acts of hostility. A duplicate of such effectual … is coming into these parts, either to force a trade, or to prosecute open war, which the Spaniards have so …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Pray that no such persons may draw any mischiefs upon them or be heard in their behalf without their particular address to their Lordships or the recommendations of Governor Atkins in whose prudent … wholly left out, and where ipsissima verba to be added or altered, which will save him much time, and then he will …