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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in any other Government, with their mixture of Spanish, French, Danes, Dutch and Indians. I beg for double the five …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Jago if the new Governor be arrived and desire it, for the French mean to take revenge for all that Juan Corso has done … his house, also an English ketch which was seized by the French at Salt Tortugas, and brought in under your commission … has often declared that he will serve us as he served the French, and threatens to come and take negroes from the north …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… at New York. That the English will protect them from the French, or they will lose all their beaver-hunting; that they … to the justice and friendship that exist between the French and English crowns I am always your friend. French. 1 p. Endorsed. Recd. 15 August 1684. [ Col. Papers, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… concerning the differences between our Indians and the French, and if occasion should come for me to act (of which I … for Sir J. Werden has not answered my letter. The French are now quiet. We have a very good trade this year, … and shall have much better if we take the same care as the French, by putting a little fort on this side the Great Lake, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Stayed there about five months, during which time two French parties came overland and joined them. To one leader, … upon the privateers, when one of the principal French ships, which should have seconded Davis, deserted. … the Island may be restored. Signed, Arnout van Citters. French. 2 pp. Endorsed. [ Col. Papers, Vol. LVIII., No. 28.] …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to for satisfaction for the seizure of two ketches by the French. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXIV., p. 133.] Aug. 4. … you, and to learn that you have sustained no loss from the French, who meant to have destroyed you. As soon as I heard … to know first if you have given any provocation to the French, and if so in what manner. I must know the truth, for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fishing, has for the past two years been taken by the French, under the command of the pirate Laurens, and British … The place is of importance, and in case of a war would, in French hands, be very prejudicial to us. Colonel Molesworth … islands and of the King's title thereto, and of the recent French encroachments thereon, especially at St. Lucia. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 26th June the Irish on St. Christophers deserted to the French and declared for King James, under which pretence they … seized several English gentlemen as they passed through French ground. The inhabitants on the Windward side fled to the fort, whereupon the Irish and French immediately fell a plundering. Most of the people to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in St. Christophers, which is openly countenanced by the French, Antigua having already done her best to help, being … of life. He found the Indians all well armed with new French fuzees, waistbelts and cutlasses, and most of them … of losing the Leeward Islands through the subtlety of the French in tampering with inhabitants there. The last news …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… half way and seven almost in position. That evening the French general sent three gentlemen to me with a flag of … the fort were riddled like sieves, and we can believe the French when they say they could neither eat nor sleep in … good fortune in our ridding him from the clutches of the French he has written me a letter lately complaining of being …