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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… many years since the Tomahittans sent 20 men laden with beaver to the white people, but they killed ten of them and … He promised to bring knives and hatchetts to truck with beaver skins, at which they seemed to rejoice and carried him … did think. There they killed many swine, sturgeon, and beaver. About 10th May 1674 the King, with 18 of his people …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to places of judicature; for assuming the monopoly of the beaver trade contrary to his Majesty's prerogative and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… protect them from the French, or they will lose all their beaver-hunting; that they have put themselves under the … Aug. 28. Whitehall. 1850. Receipt for the tribute of seven beaver skins reserved in the King's grant of Mounthope. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and would be an obligation on the Indians to bring their beaver to us, which would be six for one at present. I put … to exhort the Sonnentonans to add more peltry to the ten beaver skins and thirty otters which they have left in store …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… so again they shall answer for it. We give four pairs of beaver skins. We will open a path for the far Indians, and … to them as soon as we return. We give four pairs of beaver skins. We shall fight the French as long as we have a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… her. He afterwards put into Carwar, where I gave him a beaver to let me go ashore, Most of his men seemed …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… They complained of the dearness of goods "and since our beaver is so cheap, we desire that the great king who lives … addressed that the people of England do make their hats of beaver and not of sheep's wool." June 15. The French …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… look for trade, and promised to bring down a great deal of beaver in three months' time, and the Governor of Carolina …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of land 800 miles long by 400 broad, including all their beaver hunting, with a draught, the most accurate I have been … that the Wagannes take our land from us where we hunt beaver. Let them hunt upon their own land, els wee shall kill one another for the Beaver when we meet together. We doe suspect that some have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… factories kind to you? Indians: We have not enough for our Beaver. Governor: English goods are dear, and beaver cheap. There was a factor at Casco that complaint was … be better. Indians: We have not above half so much for our beaver as formerly. Governor: It is not worth a quarter so …
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