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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the price of furs to four times the Company's rate. Thus beaver was sold for 40 s. per lb. which, the Company now … interest of the Jesuits (who have the sole benefit of the beaver-trade in France) a secret Treaty of Neutrality was … remaining product of its own goods. The French made 55,000 beaver skins by trading with our goods in 1695, and they know …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Nova Scotia put together. In order to this design, the beaver trade ought to be incourag'd by the Parliament, all duties wholly taken off both here and in England from beaver and other peltry exported from this Province. Some … here, assure me that the French King, to incourage the beaver trade, had ordered the Parliament of Paris to put …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… quantitys that they export them, and the importation of beaver wool from thence is very much declined. Shoes are also …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… about forty of both sexes, with five or six hundred beaver-skins. On the 11th the Commandant at Chambly seeing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… offered, particularly to deposit with the Lord Mayor the beaver skins which he had taken from the place where they … prisoner in the Fleet, who, having recovered all the beaver skins at great loss, prays to be discharged from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… seize vessels so employed. Twenty mouse skins and twenty beaver skins to be rendered yearly to the Lord Protector or …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… laden with tobacco, sugar, indigo, and a good quantity of beaver ; they were convoyed by three men-of-war, and come …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… After some time of residence there, and finding beaver and other profitable commodities to abound, he …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of my colony at New York, estimated after the rate of beaver there. One Captain at 8 s. a day, 2 lieutenants at 4 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… which with the excise on taverns, alehouses, and the beaver trade, could never be farmed at above 700 l., which …