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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… chosen Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, in place of Lieut.-Governor Stoughton, and John Saffin a … that matter was adjourned to be further proceeded in to-morrow. Grants of the Assembly, May 28, confirmed and … to James Taylor, Treasurer, 200 l. for his service in that office the year last past; to John White, Clerk of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be of the Vestry. Act declaring the laws of England to be in force referred to Chief Justice North, with a request to … be confirmed by the King. Act for regulating fees referred in part to the Commissioners of Customs; Lord Chief Justice … Stapleton be directed to make laws for the Leeward Islands in the same form as those of Barbados and Jamaica. Draft of a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for the Jamaica expedition be laid before the King in Council, and that protections be ordered for the crews of … of the preparations for Jamaica, laid before the King in Council on 2 December, 1694. The Admiralty here appointed … by you, and an article to that effect was inserted in the charter-parties. The masters finding our protection …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… points concerning the convoys and to bring their decision in writing. The case of Mons. de la Forest and the Hudson's … Dec. 21. 524. A collection of documents brought forward in the case of Mons. de la Forest's complaint against the … surgeon of York Fort, when it was attacked by the French in October, 1694. To the effect that the French violated the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… very plentifull and clear estate there, to fill a vacancy in the Council. Signed, Benj. Way, John Heathcote, Ja. … that the taking the breadth from inside to inside did in the operation fall considerably short of the reall … seem'd to be, that the shipps must be laid on ground in order to be admeasured, and that there is no place in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I summoned the representatives of the province to meet me in Assembly, who having prepared the several accounts … herewith transmitted them to you. There is now current in the Three Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex upon … i Philadelphia, 23 November 1739. Account of Acts passed in Pennsylvania for creating or issuing bills of credit. In …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Colonel John Colebeck to be of the Council of Jamaica in the room of Colonel Whitfield, deceased. Form of Order in Council, for confirming the Acts of Jamaica and repealing that which declares the laws of England to be in force, approved. Draft letters from the King and the Lords …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1,671. Abstract of the memorial relating to the revenue in Virginia ( see No. 1087), praying that the debit balance … for establishment of Colonel Henry Holt's Regiment of Foot in the Leeward Islands, to consist of five companies, each of … and on the 11th of February. The laws of Jamaica passed in 1693 were referred to the Attorney General. Feb. 13. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1730 February 1730 Feb. 2. St. James's. 41. Order of King in Council, Confirming Act of the Leeward Islands, for … of Newcastle. Has taken a long journey through the woods in N. Hampshire and the township of Berwick in Maine. Continues : In each I found very great destruction …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Read, Answer of the Warwick Deputies to the return in William Harris's case, representing that if their business … would be ruined by the extraordinary charge, and stand in great danger of being condemned by the malice of their … of Warwick, the inhabitants of Warwick be not disturbed in the possession of their lands till Harris or his partners …