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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Act of the Leeward Islands, for raising a tax on negroes for erecting a courthouse etc. Signed, Ja. Vernon. … by the Royal African Company by the taking of 251 negroes and provisions consigned to Jamaica on board the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from thence in Feb. last to the Bahama Islands, the negroes who are more numerous than the white people have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… part of an act for the better suppressing the rebellious negroes etc., empowering such parishes as are omitted in the … Government. The revenue raised by that act, by a tax on negroes and other the possessions of the inhabitants, over … there passed two other acts, each laying a duty on negroes and other the possessions of the inhabitants etc. one …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the most beneficial branch of our trade, the carrying negroes and dry goods to the Spanish coast, the loss of this … Government of this Island, the reduction of our rebellious negroes, and the additional subsistance of the two regiments … in all times past have laid duties upon the importation of negroes, and as the merchts. have naturally encreased their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and people of New England ; to this place ships loads of negroes might be brought and sold well. Port Beaufort, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… mix'd cloths of cotton and wooll for the use of their negroes. As to Governors' presents etc., We find that the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… property and inheritance in certain lands, plantations, negroes &c. in New York in their absence unheard and contrary … the fourth unsuccessful attempt to subdue the rebellious negroes, it is feared that, unless some effectual means be … the engagement between Thomas Swanton and the rebellious negroes in Aug. last. Describes shooting of the leader, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in time of war to send into the island of St. Martin any negroes or other effects to preserve them from the enemy, … islands, in times of great danger, to send their choicest negroes and most valuable effects to the Dutch Colony at St. … of a contagious fever and an intended insurrection of the negroes at Providence. [ C.O. 24, 1. p. 298.] Feb.26. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… since, laying duties on importation and exportation of negroes, wines and other goods etc. Endorsed, Recd. 19th … Buckley. 1 p. 253. vi. Treasurer's account of poll tax on negroes and 5 p. c. on house-rents etc. Total, 5,320 14s. 4 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the colony of Georgia and to excite an insurrection of the negroes of this province. The general assembly being now … of all the militia throughout the province and as our negroes are very numerous and more dreadful to our safety … to come down to the settlements to be an awe to the negroes. These are principally the steps I have yet taken or …