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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… commission not empowering him as Secretary of Rhode Island and Connecticut, which are now included in New … deputy, nor shall I, unless I move my residence to another Island. Colonel Redmond Stapleton, Lieutenant Governor of … one about a turtling sloop which they robbed near this island with most inhuman treatment of the poor men; the other …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a deputation which confirms me as secretary of the island. You ask for the minutes of Council from 21 February … of a joint committee to draw up the Acts of the island. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. XLVIII., p. 222.] Aug. 8. … then passed an Act for raising money for soliciting the island's affairs in England. The fifth proposal is already …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Petition of Ralph Lane, and Lord Stirling's claim to Long Island considered. On report of the law-officers, agreed to … the Governor and Council ordered all the sugar in the Island to be seized for the King's use to buy provisions for … we heard of Sir E. Andros's escape from Boston to Rhode Island, where Colonel Dongan landed on the same day, being …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of St. Christophers to Lords of Trade and Plantations. The Island is in the nature of a frontier to the other Leeward … number of men, provisions and arms be sent to the Island, together with clothes, etc. for the garrison. The … be supplied. The General should be ordered to make that Island or Nevis his residence to encourage the people by his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… orders. As soon as I had possession of the fort on this Island I set about the securing of our conquest, and have … To Martinique I have sent the French Governor of the Island with fifty men and two hundred women and children, and … for fifteen and twenty shillings a bushel; a barrel of beef, that used to be worth twenty shillings, cannot be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… appointed on account of the grievous sickness in the Island. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. XII., pp. 206211.] Aug. 5. … grant of Pennsylvania. All that has been reserved is Long Island and some of the small islands adjacent to New York, … and the limits thereof. New York is situate on a barren island between the Hudson and the East River, and has nothing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… taken against Colonel John Hallett. In February, 1697, the Island being much depopulated by sickness and war, and there … to discipline the militia and improve the defences of the Island. Observing that the sea-shore to leeward was generally … to erect a fort on the ground of the expense to the Island; and gave orders for the brushwood, which was not …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… A Committee appointed to assess the damage done in Long Island by the recent landing and entertainment of troops … Survey of the plantations on the Killrancull in Staten Island presented. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXXV., pp. 448, … due from Lord Inchiquin's Attorney to the revenue of the Island. [ Board of Trade. Jamaica, 77. p. 255.] Aug. 15. 498. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Draft Commission for settling the boundaries of Rhode Island read, and a clause added charging the expense thereof … Governments of Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island be ordered to furnish quotas of 240, 160, 350 and 48 … that suitable order be sent to Massachusetts and Rhode Island as to the command of the Militia; and that the Members …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… merchants were under no apprehension of the loss of the Island, but of the devastation of a portion of it only. … understanding between them, though if the French gain this Island the Spaniards will not find them such easy neighbours … here of English parents, and who knowing every part of the Island had done much mischief by landing in the night, …