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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… within 18 months, the suspending Act do then expire, or whether the same do remain in force after the 18 months … Maycock, May 16, which was returned 14th, and the same day a Proclamation of Rebellion issued. Upon which Deponent … contraverted they are to be heard in Council on the second day of the next General Court, and if any irregular …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… cloath their servants and slaves with such linsey woolsey, or that an Act of Parliament as they desire be past here for … to enterprize anything for our advantage, sayled this day for the Leeward Islands with an humble Address to H.M. … Acknowledges letter of Sept. 26. I shall order another day of Thanksgiving. In reply, quotes letter of July 15. A …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… operation fall considerably short of the reall burthen, or tonnage of the ship, and that the breadth from out to out … the short time will admitt off. I have not been wanting day or night to vew the lynes and forsese and to give all … the doing of what shall be found necessary, we have this day laid before H.M. your said letter etc. [ C.O. 153, 10. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the West Indies will not be able to carry on their trade, or even to subsist (especially in time of war) without the … Beresford to Governor Crowe, for a Council to be held this day. Sept. 1, 1708. H.E. refused. Signed, William Sharpe, … and the Winchelsea for Oporto. The store-ships arrived a day or two before I sailed, and is arrived safe at Falmouth, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be holden at, yet it may be visited with a plague, or may be in the possession of enemies or rebells; and tho' … Nov. 13th from Bristoll, had the misfortune on the 9th day following, 45 leagues N.W. of the Norward Cape, to meet … taking of St. Johns, Newfoundland, by the French upon this day. See Dec. 3, 1709. Dec. 21. Boston. 260. Lt. Governor …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I cou'd, the truth of which appeared plainly that very day, for the Assembly sent up a very triffling bill, which … Councill requesting that the Bill might be past that very day, else it wou'd not do; this opened the eyes of the … I so well improved, that they resolved to pass no Act or make a Session unless they cou'd have the Militia Act, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in the Act for the incouragement of the trade to America, or not, without a discovery thereof by some of the captor's … named Gilbert Jane, having been in the woods the day before we were taken, saw the musquetts of some of the … about the fortifications of Quibec from 3 to 600 men a day; the back part towards the land which was formerly …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the money paid on those vessels to amount to about 8 or 900 more. (ii) The private traders have sent out in that … these places being 20 p.c. worse than that of Jamaica. 3 or 4 of our biggest ships were taken by the enemy before they … proof that the African trade is not likely to be lost or in a declining condition by reason of private traders, as …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… last past, people being taken with a pain in their head, or side, then in the stomach, and generally killed in five … hope your Lordps. will not impute anything to my neglect, or blame me for what is impossible to be helpt, for I spare … inhabiteing in this country) Hensons and Dorells that are or were sea-faring men, but they all utterly deny they were …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by the clause what shall be deemed a resettlement, or when such as have not already resettled, shall be obliged to do the same, or in what manner such obligation shall be entred into. (ii) … (4) The Palatins could not have hir'd themselves to day labour, without disbanding themselves after their arrival …