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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… planters, 149 women, 309 children, 1,331 servants. Winter-fishing lasts from the middle of September to the end of … May they wood and fur, and then fit out for their summer's fishing, which lasts from the middle of June to the 10th of … (2) The Colony is unable to support itself. It has all its fishing craft and most of its provisions from England. New …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… planters, all included, is 1,560. They depend wholly on fishing in summer and getting firewood and building their … and New England. (3) There is wood enough to supply the fishing-trade in all the convenient harbours for time to come … down and store them. (6) The boat-keepers have all their fishing craft from old England, and nowhere else, but their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of ballast into them. Great abuses are committed by fishing out of season, for want of a Governor and … bottomry at 25 or 30 per cent. for the voyage, and, if the fishing were secure, money could be raised in other ways; (2) … to the planters, which will bring them in as much as the fishing. If the French could be outwitted, we could gain the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1677 [Feb. 16.] 1,140. Petition of the Newfoundland fishing traders to the King. Proposing that, though copies of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Hudson's Bay Company. A captain just returned from cod fishing off Canada reports that the French had made two …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in Charles I.'s time, who made the French pay toll for fishing; but afterwards the place became vicious and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be the late Secretary of New England, on board a fishing boat. p. [ Board of Trade. New England, 5. No. 22A.] …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and as to whether the planters do not interfere with the fishing, but leave it to be wholly managed by the shipping. … expense of their rigging, and riding in harbour all the fishing time. The French, who have two-thirds of the trade … and stores left behind from the winter, take the best fishing places and debauch our men. A very lengthy document. …