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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the transportation of fifty women convicts referred to us in your letter of 2nd inst., it will be no convenience nor … sent thither, for no English women are there put to work in the field, and the people will not be willing to take such … loss and prejudice of the islands, many of the plantations lying waste for years afterwards for want of negroes, to the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be given him. After a long examination he was remanded in custody till he should further recognize himself in 1,000 and two sureties to take his trial at next … had been taken in on the previous night from a brigantine lying off Guadeloupe and had been brought thence to Antigua …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… case. Mr. Blair, the Bishop of London's Commissary in Virginia, has for some time past been appointed to the Council. In that Colony the members of the Council have always been … the Plantation-trade, enacts "that "all places of trust in the courts of law or what relates to the "Treasury of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and West Indies July 1699 July 1699 July 1. James City, in Virginia. 579. Governor Nicholson to the Council of Trade and Plantations. The latter end of March I was in Maryland, where I saw Governor Blakiston. I thank God we … sole privilege of purchasing from the Indians all lands lying within East Jersey as yet unpurchased from them; (4) …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Assembly of Massachusetts Bay. Various Bills considered in Committee. Excise Bill passed to be engrossed. Bill for a … read twice and sent down. Conference held about a clause in the Bill for regulating proceedings in the Courts. Bill sent up for incorporating Harvard College …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… prepared some while since for the Governors of Plantations in pursuance of several Laws relating to Trade and … a little surprised at the proceeding of Francis Brinley in his groundless petition. He says he had no notice and did … believe him then, nor do I yet; but it was a blundering, lying excuse, like the man that made it. He was one day …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… goods (which was less by 24 bales than we have since got in the sloop); that Kidd had left behind him a great ship … but himself could find out, on board whereof there were in bale goods, salt-petre and other things to the value of at … Council never was a stronger or stauncher ship seen. His lying had like to have involved me in a contract that would …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Robt. Quarye abated a duty paid on rum imported and lost in the ice. Major Dorsey sentenced to pay a fine of 200. And … Council of Trade and Plantations to the Lords Justices. In obedience to your order of June 29 we lay before your … constantly given to the Governors of all H.M. Plantations in America for preventing the carrying on of illegal trade in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Indies July 1700 July 1700 July 1. 605. Minutes of Council in Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay. Bill directing how the great bridge over Charles River in Cambridge, lately rebuilt, shall be repaired and … for accommodating the difference relating to the Ministry in the middle and easterly parts of Watertown was drawn up, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies July 1700 July 1700 July 11. Bill in addition to the Act for building with stone, etc., was … time and voted to be dismist. Bill, for repealing a clause in the Act for collecting and assessing taxes, was read again … those parts with the Indians, who by their flatteries and lying insinuations are indefatigably industrious to seduce …