Search
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… suffered for their rebellion; his opinion thereon, "since in such disturbances it is impossible, but all who had … make tobacco their sole commodity. Wants of the soldiers; in a very sickly condition. Thinks 200 men placed in a good … of his reign, established that the continent in America lying between 40 and 48 N. lat. from, sea, to sea should be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… William Stapleton, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of St. Christopher's, Nevis, Montserrat, and all other the Caribbee Islands lying to Leeward, from Guadaloupe to Porto Rico, to conclude … Bay, anciently called Chissawanock, now Hog Island, lying within the New Plymouth jurisdiction. The Rhode Island …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… pay to the said Robert Mason a quit rent of sixpence in the pound upon the full and yearly value of all houses and … Merrimac river, nor to the soil or propriety of any land lying between the rivers Naumkeck and Merrimac, and that all … provisions. (10.) Description,Bermuda is a ridge of land lying nearly N.E. and E. and S.W. and W., but rounding; its …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… meeting of Sir H. Chicheley's Company on 20th July last in the restoration of Ensign Ross [Rous] to his employment, … reform he would be constrained to dismiss them the service in disgrace. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXXXIV., pp. 4955.] July … to anchor off the fort and there rid four or five days in sight of all the Island till he had landed all his neg …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… XLVII., No. 22.] This and foregoing document are printed in New York Documents, Vol. III., pp. 2879. July 1. Barbados. … Trade and Plantations. The frigate Norwich happening to be in harbour, the provisions sent by Knapman and Lockwood for … the sloop captured from Everson to accompany the Norwich in cruising after pirates ( see No. 16). She saves the great …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to order him either to a safe harbour, or to keep the sea in some safer latitude, and in the latter case to pursue the Indians and pirates who … up for the Bay of Honduras where Laurens the privateer was lying in wait for a couple of ships from Guatemala. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… an additional duty on wines, a duty on goods imported in foreign bottoms, and a duty on the export of money and … 112.] July 1. 745. Minutes of Council of Virginia. Order in Council summoning the Assembly for 20 October next. Order … trust others to do it for them. The French fleet, after lying a long time in the Bay of Honduras, is now for the most …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to his office. You have altered the form of writs in Carolina, wherein you have done ill. They should run in the name of the Palatine and Proprietors, as those of … before attempted to murder Mr. Skutt in the night by lying in wait for him at his own house. The attempt was …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… July 1689 July 22. Hampton Court. 279. Order of the King in Council. For the office of Ordnance to report whether … 22. 281. Deposition of Pieter Godfree and another. That in April last they heard the Minister, Mr. Innes, in … of Customs. Thirty small barrels of powder are lying in a ship at Portsmouth together with other goods from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that according to the ordinary rules 2,500 men in boats was too few against 1,500 men in trenches. We harassed and alarmed the enemy with some of … Caymanos for turtle, where there were several of our craft lying. There Laurens, the great pirate of Petit Guavos, …