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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Maryland for want of an established ministry. Ten or twelve counties in this Province with at least 20,000 … not having advanced the Colony by fortifications, towns, or trade; for having abused and rendered justice contemptible … within four days, otherwise we declare that the owners or inhabiters of places where said persons shall reside or …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and many others. P.15. Stubborn son on complaint of father or mother to be put to death. Part of the Mosaical law which … Civil marriage. P. 132. Penalty for walking in streets or fields, and for children playing on the Sabbath. P. 119. … that none shall be put to death without the oath of two or three witnesses, which may be a means of encouraging …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Feversham and Jemmy Grimes are to be going away in two or three days. Holograph. Signed. 1 p. [ Col. Papers, Vol. … rules of Court setting them peremptorily days to plead, or judgment to be entered against them for the King. In … to be called upon for any further prosecution, trouble, or expense until the term, at which time they are resolved to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the purpose, as I am forced to do at great expense once or twice a year, I may expect an answer from Europe sooner … all the Islands, I hope to meet a General Assembly of two or three of the Council and the like number of the … since my time, applied to the King's service in some form or other, but for the future shall be as you direct, in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… York. That the English will protect them from the French, or they will lose all their beaver-hunting; that they have … received for the support of the Government in the Islands or in England, with the orders by which they were raised, and … in Council. Permitting Governor Cranfield to go to Jamaica or Barbados for his health; he is to appoint a deputy …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… receiving also 5 l. a head for every negro captured or killed, to be divided equally among the men of the party … stead. Ordered, that commanding officers keep a greater or lesser number of men in arms in their respective parties. … (9.) People were afraid to speak on Sir John's behalf, or to visit him in confinement, from fear of Sir Richard …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… thought you were the King of England's subjects; but two or three years ago you made a covenant chain with the French … the King of England's subjects you should ever offer peace or war without my consent. You know we can live without you, … whom they have taken prisoners. Then I would have one or two of your wisest Sachems and as many of your chief …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and British subjects have been prohibited from hunting or fishing. The place is of importance, and in case of a war … Mr. Ichabod Wiswall, though lame, was forced to come, or else he must have been cast. They paid unreasonable … to us on pain of death. We hear that seven hundred, or as some say, two thousand Indians are up, and it is …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… He added that he had intelligence thence every week or ten days, and knew all our force and how and where they … duty to serve King James, some because they were in debt or dissatisfied. Thus the French were strengthened and … sent in a sloop by some merchants with a cargo go 8,000 or 10,000 to trade on the coasts of Carthagena and Porto …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Customs by Edward Randolph. (1) The ignorance, remissness or connivance of Collectors permits masters of vessels and … (2) The Naval officers accept persons of little or no estate as security for masters of vessels who sail … goods ashore. The vessel lying in some obscure creek forty or fifty miles from the Collector's office is presently …