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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Treasury, and that not paid as my Agent informes me, all my perquesites I lett at 60 l. ster. per ann., and he … Islands allow me for my House is what I have comeing in all manner of wayes. I am forced to keep two Houses, one at … live uppon my incomb: and yett I never lived worse in all my life; I came over 26 in family, there is now but 4 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… hope, will be a caution to others not to do the like, and all care has been and shall be taken by me to prevent any such practices. All sloops and other vessells that trade here are either … to ours; but on the contrary, being a man that is above all advice, having an extraordinary opinion of his own merits …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of war, which are but indifferently man'd, consisting in all of 50 sail; I hope our British ffleet will meet with them … men, since the last Act of Parliament has deprived them of all other means of having any here. They want now 300 men, … dying, besides other accidents that happen, as desertion. All the help I am able to give them is to spare them men out …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… anything to guard it; so that two French sloops will take all our Northern trade and starve us. Neither has the country … it wholly. The remedy to retrieve the said trade is, that all privateers who shall cruize to leward of River de la … after Canada is reduced, what an advantage the having all Newfoundland would be to England I believe everybody …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… at New York relating to the service of that part, all the troops being gone to Albany, and the advanced … and had been arrived there tenn days; upon which I made all possible dispatch to Boston by land, being about 80 miles … boats, whale-boats, as well as our troops being all ready att 12 hours warning; and because the fleet is so …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to take the Justices affidavitts, that they had examined all their depositions that they were true coppys, all the Majestrates refused them, because they no ways had … rewarded, and those assassinating villains (that have made all this clamour without any just cause) punished, and I hope …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… my action against them with a sort of a non obstante to all the laws, and which is as highly prejudiciall to H.M. … was my duty to preserve the Queen's negative voice against all the attempts of an undutyful people, as their Lordships … them, and how they laid it down as a principle on which all their management turned, to reduce me to the necessity …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from the Leeward Islands make a diligent enquiry into all particulars relating to that action in order to lay it in … small arms, and the inhabitants expect to be furnisht upon all occasions. There is none in the magazine, 500 arms with … by order of the Congress have raised, moduled and embark'd all the said troops, and are now near half way upon our …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… write in dispair, and as the Agent who hath launched out all the money he was capable to raise for H.M. service and … especially considering that the garison is composed of all the mutineers and refuse of the seven regiments from … Indians: but upon paying a reward of 5 pr. man, they were all brought back by the French save two, and being tryd by a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lordships may not in a little time hear of the loss of all the Islands by the General's ill conduct, we daily expect … General Park at Antigua; upon account of Montserat and now all the Islands being exposed to be destroyed by the enemy, … I am here, he has bin but four times in it and his stay at all those times not half an hour. That there is not a barril …