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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to queries concerning the present state of the Bahama Islands. Inhabitants about 600 (300 freemen), dwelling upon … duty to give your Lopps. an acctt. of the state of these Islands. The people haveing made good cropps began to be in … they must be tryed by jurys, who will always clear their friends, even of murther. There is no such thing as Escheats, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I did not know it, been all along carryed on between these Islands and the French and Dutch Islands, all theyr brandy, clarrat, white sugar, cocoa and … is no ground for your suspicion that they are none of your Friends. I presume they will return you full answers to what …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… also at Carbonear, Harbour Grace, and Little Bell Islands, and the Isle of Boys. Signed, Jos. Taylor. 2 pp. (b) … Popple. Reply concerning Oct 5. q.v. Barbados, ye Leward Islands and Jamaica haveing their sole dependance for beef … as will disable them from afordeing any suplys to ye Suger Islands, ye concequences of which I need not tell you. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… New York as likewise in that of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, we find that those Islands do mostly depend upon being supplyed with wheat and … for their own consumption, and for the supply of our Islands, they frequently send some to the Maderas in exchange …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a vessil be provided for the privateers belonging to the Islands in America, for their transportation hither. (7) That … now any settlements of the French upon any of the Bahama Islands, they being in the entire possession of the English, … wanting ammunition are of no use to them. The rest of the Islands they say are wholly and intirely abandon'd, the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Jones, be of any weight, the Regiment now in the Leward Islands must be inevitably ruin'd, the soldiers being … common ruin, etc. An officer is arrived from the Leward Islands prepared to sett the matter in a clear light, etc. … quantities of ordnance stores to H.M. Plantations and Islands in America, for which we receiv'd no satisfaction, we …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… We doubt not but you have received advise from the Leeward Islands of the repulse the French met with when they landed … from Mr. Hamilton, Lieut. General of the Leeward Islands, was in a great measure owing to the conduct and … the Councill and Assembly as well of Antego, as the other Islands under your care, will act in concert with you to H. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… threatned the reduction of the rest of the Leeward Islands, the coppy of which wee have sent herewith, that in … or goeing with our Generall on the visitation of the other Islands our windward parts are naked and the trade bound in … at Barbados 15 days would bear to the loss of the Leeward Islands, and withall told him if all we could say had no …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the Truce, which I have published in all the four Islands with the usual ceremony and notifyed the same to the … was filled with turpentine drein'd by't from ye tree. My friends in England who know nothing of ye matter press …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Perrie (Surveyor Generall of Barbados and the Leeward Islands). Montserrat, July 25, 1713. Since your departure …