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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… never heard of any abatement in payment, either in trade, or market, or any dealing whatsoever. The heat and length of the warr … are yet standing out and in use thousand pounds which four or five years will bring in and leave the Province out of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lopps. will not find the least pretence of any grievance or complaint that can tend any way personally to effect me, … want of pay and cloathing, having been intirely neglected or rather abandoned by the Ministry at home," etc., in all … did not in the least conceal either his principals or errand for he not only reputed it a crime to drink the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and the French King, justly expected the friendship, or at least the neutrality of the French Government of … Canada, he declares in stronger terms yet; that sooner or later, he shall be obliged to engage in their quarrel: And … we humbly represent to your Majesty, that the claim or pretension of the French Governour to the allyance of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… board to take care of the same; but the following night 60 or 70 persons in disguise forcibly entered on board the ship … Pensilvania as the Courts of Kings bench, Common pleas, or Exchequer at Westminster. The Collector prosecuted his … of that Province ought not to take cognizance of any suit or information for the breach of a penal law, being, as they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lower Counties thought it a place of no importance to them or those they represented, and these last made a great part … to perswade them to subsist that garrison by a land tax, or some other way, that might not only answer the end, but be … nor, they say, will their correspondents in England, or the manufacturers of fur any longer feel the decay of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1739. Account of Acts passed in Pennsylvania for creating or issuing bills of credit. In 1723 two Acts were passed for … 45000 l was issued, and for the effectual discharging or sinking the said bills it was therein provided and enacted … be annually repaid into the office in such equal sums or quotas as would effectually sink the whole capital sum of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… English ministers of the Gospel and others residing in or near New England, who have attained to speak the language … be impleaded, &c., in as ample manner as any other person or corporation, and have a common seal. And his Majesty … Company during good behaviour, with power to summon courts or meetings ; and on the death or removal of the Governor, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… spoken for him, yet whoever is in authority will be envied or condemned. 2 pp. [ Col. Papers, Vol. XXII., No. 34.] Feb. … whom the French, though their prisoner, could not corrupt or reduce in that affair ; and will reduce Dominica if, by … Since all in the island are concerned as plaintiffs or defendants, they appeal to his Excellency to end the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… received any advice since he left England six months ago or seen one ship from London. M. de Baas has thrice … possess it but English. This is the way of this business or any of the like nature: the soldiers go, no purchase, no pay, but every captain is at 30 l. or 40 l. charge before he can complete his company, and most …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they must scatter themselves in the island where work or charity may be found, which is the present case of the … finds the fees may be reduced to 1 l. 11 s. a head, or in the whole 465 l. 4th. To erect a fort at Cleverley … and that his Majesty contribute 500 l. 5th. To sent 400 or 500 arms with ammunition, to the value of 491 l. 8 s. 6th. …