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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for a proclamation for a day of thanksgiving for the Queen's being with child. Stephen Cortlandt sworn Deputy-Auditor of … Jamaica. William Drax returned as member for the period of St. Ann. His Grace reported the joyful news of the Queen's … from the fortieth degree of north latitude to the river St. Croix, and east and west from sea to sea, Delaware and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LIV. pp. 228239.] April 3. St. Christophers. 65. Colonel Thomas Hill to Lords of Trade … cost price. The French General sailed on the 24th ult. for St. Eustatia, which was surrendered on the 28th. They have … to the Governors of the Colonies. Reporting the King's intention to declare war against France, and ordering them …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of them may be used to the disadvantage of this Country's interest at Court. You will be a better judge than I, so … XVIII., pp. 293, 294.] April 17. 835. Agreement between St. Jago del Castillo and Captain Thomas Hewetson for the … very violently at Martinique, for sloops at sea between St. Lucia and Martinique thought themselves aground, so …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of accounts for burial of Macgregor, slain in the King's service, and of all accounts before the Governor's arrival; … Islands. The English regiment, exclusive of men left at St. Christophers, numbers 550, two Jamaica privateers will … Jamaica. A month ago three Brandenburg ships, bound for St. Thomas, touched at Nevis, and the Governor suggested that …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Virginia. The Burgesses were summoned to hear Lord Howard's Commission and dismissed to elect their speaker. They … John West William Leigh New Kent County. Geo. Mason Martin Scarlett Stafford County. Charles Scarborough William … King Charles the Second in 1669 granted to the Earl of St. Albans the profits of the neck of land between the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from Scotland ( pp. 651654). Commodore Isaac Townsend's letter reporting his arrival read. Ordered that he be … 2,158. Journal of Lords of Trade and Plantations. Captain St. Lo's claim to prizes further considered. [ Board of … be delivered for the firing of guns on rejoicing days at St. Jago de la Vega. Order for beacons to be erected to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1. 232. Minutes of Council of Nevis. Walter Symonds's Commission as President of the Island read. [ Col. Entry … therefore to be annexed to Massachusetts. Signed. Richard Martin, Speaker. Copy. 1 p. 250. II. Address of certain … Question put whether the forces land and destroy Fort St. Pierre first or Port Royal. Resolved to land at St. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… taken as to the Admiralty clauses. Governor Russell's draft commission also read and, with a new clause as to … Entry Bk., Vol. LXXV., pp. 416, 417.] April 20. Before St. Pierre, Martinique. 281. Minutes of the Council of War in the West Indies. On the question whether St. Pierre should be closely besieged, or whether to retire …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… nominate commanders of the militia; but Sir William Phips's commission appointed him commander-in-chief of the forces … to report on the case for the signification of the King's further pleasure. Countersigned. J. Trenchard. [ Board of … of Major Joseph Crispe to the King. I was sent from St. Christophers to Barbados to raise a regiment for the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Council of New York. A petition against Widow Pawling's patent for land was referred to a committee for report. … and many of them living twenty-five or thirty miles from St. Jago, so I called Captain Brodrick from the Assembly and … I sent seven weeks since to concert with the President of St. Domingo that his forces might be ready against the …