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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the weather, wee having more frost and deeper snow, than ever I knew since my being here. I have now got …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Judge of Admiralty. This has been a greate year for snow and such seasons the pine trees are greately destroyed, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… roads into the woods are now impracticable by an excessive snow which fell 19th Jan., etc., I could not take a second … hundred yoke of oxen drawing timber on sleads upon the snow wch. in the woods is level. I came hither with much … but 120 oxen make nothing of them on sleds upon the snow. I have been thinking of an expedient to save the mast …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… would be impossible for him to march to Canada through the snow a foot. All the French soldiers but one gone to Boston …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… offered to be sworn to, of the Governor of Santa Martha's carriage and words in relation to the English, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for not hanging them all. I asked for his answer as to Martha's Vineyard; he answered that he had sent me; but I … to instructions that Governor Fletcher intended to be at Martha's Vineyard early in the spring, before he went to Albany, and since Sir William pretended that Martha's Vineyard was in the Charter of Massachusetts, I told …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the War, to contract for purchase of one hundred pair of snow-shoes. Order for payment of 60 to Ichabod Wiswall. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… who returned on the 17th, having been driven back by the snow. On the 18th, we sent out another party of 84 armed men, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… sword in hand, in which they may be also favour'd by the snow. In consideration the French have 3 Companys of 50 men …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… an open place, and itt being a bitter sharp frost and much snow often falling, severall died of ye cold and severall had … was killed, the rest retired. Our people cleared away the snow from the guns, and yt. was all ye times yt. ye enimy was …