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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Copies of the two Commissions referred to in preceding. [CO. 324, 35. pp. 197200.] June 1. Jamaica, Spanish Town. 159. … discoursed with the lessees concerning the granting of land in the Bahama Islands and they have promised to use … Sollicitor General in relation to the exorbitant grants of land made by Colo. Spotswood, but as we are inform'd that …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… those duties, which they have thought fit to impose upon British subjects, and this Act being made perpetual, whereas … for the production of hemp and other Naval Stores the land abounds with timber of several kinds ; and the sea … Nova Scotia has now been many years in possession of the British Crown, yet there are hitherto few or no British …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… "Governor of L'Accadie of Cape Breton Island and land adjacent from the Cape Roziers of the Great River St. … their ladings, that shall be found trading in any of the British Plantations in breach of those Articles, will be … on the other hand ships and their cargoes belonging to British subjects who shall be found trading in any of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they got comprized in that grant Nova Scotia and all the land between it and the province of Main, within which limits … had a title to the Government (but not the soyle) of the land in the said tract, tho' unfairly obtain'd etc. Instead … of Council 15th June, 1727 to that effect. Signed, G. R. [CO. 324, 36. pp. 7580.] June 20. Whitehall. 288. Council of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… signatures. 8 pp. Enclosed, 291. ii. Statement of British title to Carolina and the Bahama Islands. Endorsed, … 1728. 7 pp. 291. iii. Schedule of losses sustained by British subjects in their shipping and effects from the … (with abstract) 234235, 237239v.] [June .] 304. Claims by British merchants and shippers on account of ships and goods, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for restraining H.M. subjects from importing into British Plantations such pro- ducts of the French Plantations, as may interfere with the British trade, and lay the same before their Committee. … may be obstructed by the refusal of the Assembly of Mary- land to come into a law for raising the same duty, tho' 'tis …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… pp. Enclosed, 761. i. Duplicate of April 20 encl. ii (a). [CO. 28, 45. ff. 4850, 51v., 52; and (duplicate of covering … March, 1727, and as the same will encourage many grants of land and new settlements near those bounds, to the great …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 20,000 acres for a gentleman in Virginia, in one body of land on the northern parts of this Governmt., for which … prevent many hundred poor people taking up small tracts of land at a reasonable price, that now will be obliged to … might belong to the merchts., as it arose from the sale of British goods there, it was reasonable to suppose the price …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Agent pretends, the King will then have very little more land to dispose of in Virginia. For your Lordships may please …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… late Treaty of Peace with Spain we are told, that all the British damages which we have received by the Spaniards since … of this Province, with seven eighth parts of the land thereof, we think it for Your Majesty's service that … South Carolina who have of late years fallen off from ye British interest there, have been in some measure provok'd …