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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… living. Bills for the regulation of Jurors; for erecting a fort on Newcastle Island: restraining and punishing … of Barbados. John Waterman sworn one of His Majesty's Judges for the Court of Common Pleas. 100 for lime and … Council of Trade and Plantations. Letter from Col. Quarry, Pennsylvania, May 18, considered. Ordered that the Secretary …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… took the oath to observe the Acts of Trade. Two of Kidd's crew, who professed to be innocent of piracy, allowed to … Assembly. I think myself obliged to give you an account of a pirate of 24 guns and 12 patareros that has lately infested … Justices upon their last representation about pirates in Pennsylvania and West New Jersey. [ Board of Trade. Journal, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… but such as we did noways think it for His Majesty's service to accept of. Therefore in our representation of … I have had a letter from Col. Markham, Governor of Pennsylvania, wherein he writes that he has two of Kidd's men … morning. We have had news here by three several posts from Philadelphia and N. York of a fight between the Essex prize, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Acts passed. We passed an Act for settling and encouraging a trade with the Eastern Indians. Those two about [stores] of … all the Eastern Coast as far as the River of St. George's, which I am sorry to say [is the] boundary between us and … lately in James' River; while he went ashore at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, to refresh himself, the seamen ran away with …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Governor, Mr. Cranstone, is one of these Demy-Quakers, a man of small estate and only put in to serve the Quakers' … to report upon the Proprietors of West New Jersey's Memorial, praying he may have H.M. approbation for the … depending upon the safe custody of the pirates seized in Pennsylvania, nor any expectation that a condign punishment …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Maryland, Virginia, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Barbadoes, Pennsylvania; to the Governor and Company of Rhoad Island and … to call on Col. Blakiston about ye 9th or 10th, to be at Philadelphia with Mr. Pen about the middle, at New York about … and never fired shot or arrow, neither had they any l[ u]ggedge, but naked, so am of opinion that they had another …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… about the conduct of the Governors of any of His Majesty's Plantations towards pirates will hereafter be in great … Revenue, and the hopes you express of being able in a year or two to build a house for His Majesty's Governor are … for his service as Advocate in the Admiraly Court of Pennsylvania, in which place he says you had put him, we …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… your Lordships' particular commands. Two of Capt. Munday's men were found on board of his own ship, viz., Nicholas … of Providence; for King ran away with a brigantein from Philadelphia about a year ago, which belonged to Webb, and … ye ninth or tenth of Sept., to meet with the Governor of Pennsylvania about ye middle of the aforesaid month, in order …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… other to the Lord Grey, tending to justify the said Lord's proceedings since his being in that Government, they were … they farther praying the Board to report upon the Acts for a present to the said Lord Grey, they were told it should be … 791. i. Memorandum of Act passed in General Assembly of Pennsylvania, Oct., Nov., 1700. p. [ C.O. 5, 1261. Nos. 18, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fit not to proceed in that matter till there should be a fuller Board ( there being only three present). Memorial … to be of the Council of New Jersey; and also Mr. Penn's Reply to Col. Quary's Answer to his complaint. Copy ordered … goods, implying that European goods were therefore sold in Pennsylvania at easier rates than he could vend English ones …