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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Proprietors of the Bahama Islands in America, to Edward Birch, Governor of Providence and Eleutheria, and the rest of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of such a Commission. We have also constituted Edward Birch our Governor of the Bahama Islands, a very worthy person and son of Mr. Birch, one of H.M. Serjeants at Law. I desire you would …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… laid before the Queen for her Royal approbation. As to Mr. Birch, he being intirely unknown to us, we desire that he, or … Council of Trade and Plantations. Letter from Mr. Serjeant Birch read. Mr. Johnson, son to Sir Nathaniel Johnson, laid … copy of a letter from Mr. Thornborough, May 10, 1700. Mr. Birch, nominated for the Government of the Bahamas, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… who go upon this expedition, whose knowledge in the use of birch canoes and snow-shoes makes them more serviceable then …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… parts mostly spruce, and all intermixed with some ash, birch, maple and popple or asp trees, very few pines and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… can march upon snow shoes, and understand the use of birch-cannoes, are of more value and service than five times …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… cedars, oaks, elms, walnut, chesnut, ash, beech, maple, birch, aspen, holly, hazel, alder, shumack, willow, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… it would be acceptable. There should be a magazin of birch canoes, batoes, cloathing, provisions and ammunition on …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Bodit, which was read, relating to some pirates whom Mr. Birch, the Collector, pursued, but they defending themselves … Quary in the next place produced a letter from Mr. Matthw. Birch, Collector at Newcastle, Aug. 17, 1699, relating in … 2 pp. Annexed, 505. i. Corroborative affidavit of Mathew Birch. Copy. p. Endorsed, Recd. from Col. Quary. Recd. Read …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… an easy and quick passage by means of their wherries, or birch canoes of great swiftness and light of carriage, the …