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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary Hedges. In answer to yours of March 28, we propose that a letter (the … As the appointing of such places has been a matter of much time and difficulty [ see C.S.P. 16741692], so great … or on the Continent, wch. makes this Collony labour under great disadvantages, the smaller peices goe still there …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… will be ready to sail, and who is the Commander thereof, in order to their preparing Heads of Enquiry as usual, and … suspended by Order of Council, and yet continued to act under his Lordship's appointment. H.E. hath put severall mean … importing or buying of servants; but that whoever will sit down and plant on any vacant piece of land there, shall have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the people called Quakers on behalfe of that people in Connecticut Colony in New England. Notwithstanding the … severall years all Protestant dissenters have here injoyed under the kind influence of the Goverment, wee understand in … H.M. to disallow it. The penalties of it are esteemed so much the moor hard as being made by persons who have no less …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… one, it must be an encouragement to the planter, being in such a hurry, to produce worse tobacco. Good ships, well … to sail in Aug. or Sept., when there will not be so much danger of privateers on the coasts of England and … course for Antigua, and by 12 the same day was gott close under the shore of that Island, where they continued for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… thy best and strongest Reason to bear up and support thee under, for it is the grieviousest shock of mischief Fortune had in her power to smite both thee and me withall etc., etc. … them, some they tossed over the walls and some they threw down into ye Fort, 2 or 3 were burst to peices. They …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the petitions have already signed petitions also in your favour, etc. Signed, Tho. Adams. 2 pp. [ C.O. 194, 4. … Robert Freeman was seized in right of Mary his wife, then under age, in which petition they sett forth the great … sold the said lands, and that the lands have been since much improved by the purchasors, and that Robert Freeman is …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… pp. 37, 38.] April 1. St. James's. 1425. Order of Queen in Council. Confirming an Act of Virginia for regulating the … to barre a plaintiffe or demandt. that is not a minor or under coverture, both which disabilities or rather … But in regard that the climate of those Islands is so much hotter than that part of Germany from whence they come, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… you what comes to hand touching the interest of trade in the West Indies; I can only lament our misfortune in this, … from the coast, where he took severall canoes with money under the shoar, as they were going aboard the traders then … Marshall to carry them all to gaol, and did himself throw down and strike one Peter Scheurman, calling him Rascall. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… certain Acts omitted. (4) Whenever the Kingdom of England in mencon'd. to be Great Britain, and instead of English … surprized to hear of the arrival of the flotilla at Cadiz, under the convoy of only two French men of war, and wonder … and saw ye enemy entering ye trench, when I forthwith layd down a gunn and poynted it towards ye enemye; butt (when I …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1711, 1-10 April 1 St. James's 770. Order of Queen in Council. Approving of draught of Commission for Governor … the powers therein mention'd ought not to be granted under the Great Seal, the power of pardoning rebellion and … hanged until we were almost strangled before they cutt us down, this is what offers from, Gentlemen, Your most humble …