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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… ton. Stages and trainfats, 478; families, 409; estimate of land improved, 6 planta-tions; inhabitants, 3,367 masters and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 2 pp. [C. O. 5, 387. No. 85.] Oct. 3. St. Johns, Newfound- land. 411. Mr. Keen to Mr. Popple. I take this opportunity of … Lordps. the great hardships H.M. subjects living in Newf'land, are exposed to, for want of propper persons duely … men, who knowing they cannot be punished in Newf'land. commit many outrages, roberys and murders and unless …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they would proceed to the proportioning each town to a tax of one thousand pounds at three a clock that afternoon, … as far north as Cape Grotte, ye nothermost Cape in N.f.land, where fisht 6 large ships of St. Mallo, sum of them 100 … a voidge to my loss, however I purpose to goe all round ye land next sumer, at my own charge without ye goverment will …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of ye River of Kennebeck on ye aforementioned tract of land. At my leavcing England matters were not quite settled … upon ye immediate settlement and improvement of that wast land upon ye conditions mentioned in the report, which being … will be imployed this winter in building hutts, clearing land, and makeing staves, and cutting timber for small …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… John Lindesay, a duplicate of the last Antigua tax act, an act for payment for slaves executed for treasons, … that island of these wild cattle, that proper quantitys of land, might be set apart for cultivation by the hoe, and … numbers of foreign Protestants have been induced by you to land and settle there. [C.O. 218, 2. pp. 219, 220.] Oct. 8. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… island, and I am sorry to acquaint your Lordships that the land on this island is good but in few places and mostly in … of what I could not see till now. We have search'd to find land for inhabitants who wanted to come from St. Christophers … not exceeding 6l. (1729); and for raising a poll-tax and assessing the houses in Plymouth etc. (1730). [C.O. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… save only in what regards the payment of ye King's tax; as her Majesty has already been pleased to signify her … the winter are not in a capacity to pay it, and the little tax already laid, for building a prison is not complyd with, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… In reply to H.M. commands quotes clauses in Newfound- land Act relating to the process of Fishing Admirals etc. … credit or thanks etc. By an order from Governor Osborn, a tax was levyed in 1729 of half a quintal of merchantable fish … John's. The said prison was began, in expectation that the tax would have been duly complyed with; but several have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… vessels built in this Colony. There are not 800 acres of land cultivated on Providence, and great part of that … have made. In Harbour Island and Islathera there is more land cultivated than on Providence, but as they also plant in …