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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Commander in Chief in and over all our Leeward Carribbee Islands in America, nevertheless, wee being perswaded that … Also except those of H.M. Councill in any of the four Islands of Antegoa, Nevis, Montserrat and St. Christophers … your commands of settling the publick affairs of these Islands, and quieting the minds of the people of this Island …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… what new matters he hath to offer, in relation to the Virgin Islands encloses following. Continues:If these evidences are … were setled on Spanish Towne, the windermost of the Virgin Islands, it would be a publick service, and might …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Leewards Islands. Westminster, 23rd Aug., 1715. [ C.O. 153, 12. pp. … of Edward Perrie as Naval Officer of the Leeward Islands. Countersigned, James Stanhope. Copy. [ C.O. 5, 190. … Mr. Benjamin Bennet to be Lt. Governour of the Bermuda Islands; I desire you will direct a draught of a Commission …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… New Jersey, about 100 for New England, 40 for the Leeward Islands, 20 for Jamaica annually, and for Barbados and … that the Charter granted to the Proprietors of the Bahama Islands be resumed into the Crowne, either by due course of … who hath been approved by H.M. to be Governor of the said Islands, to proceed thither forthwith; and for his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… severall vessells has been broken among the Leeward Islands by the pirates who are numerous, they having one ship … of the Earl of Sutherland praying for a Charter of certain Islands lying upon Delaware Bay, for their opinion whether it … observe that should the pirates remain any time among the Virgin Islands, or make a settlement there or in the Bahama …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Ask for accounts of imports from Madeira and the Western Islands and for information of French activity on the … to make a fishing voyage att Cape Cancer, and the Islands adjacent for five leagues westward, in the … H.M. Instructions to Woodes Rogers, Governor of the Bahama Islands. v. No. 220 ii. Signed, G.R. [ C.O. 324, 33. pp. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the distance wou'd be very inconsiderable. (v.) The Bahama Islands, being now a place of resort for the pirates: and … of their officers in several parishes or districts of the Islands, and that to prevent so great an inconvenience new … Ask for accounts of imports from Madeira and the Western Islands, and for information of French activity on the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 31st Dec., 1718.) We have reason to apprehend H.M. Leeward Islands are so far from being in a condition to afford the … have lately made on the Island of St. Johns, one of the Virgin Islands belonging to H.M. For these reasons therefore … Nation should ever be allow'd to settle on any of the Virgin Islands. [ C.O. 153, 13. pp. 388390.] [Feb. 3.] 40. …